Work in progress Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Naomi Nicholls

September 25, 2013June 2, 2019 by Naomi

Homemade Festival 2013

The Homemade Festival wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. Dancers/performance artists, visual artists and a photographer came together over the space of about almost a year to develop works for this show. I found the experience fantastic, especially being exposed to how artists in different disciplines (particularly dance and movement) spoke about their work. I was surprised by how similar their creative process was, in many ways, and found even the vocabulary they spoke with was similar too.

August 4, 2013June 2, 2019 by Naomi

On White and Clear and Aqua

While installing my latest work last week, I had one of those lovely moments where a work starts to take on its own life. It’s no longer just something I am making, it’s a thing that exists by its own volition. Yes, I admit that I am personifying the artwork, but what’s a little personification between friends?

May 15, 2013June 2, 2019 by Naomi

Installing – Interchange: We’re Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue at Seventh ARI

We’re Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue is a collaborative project Polly Hollyoak and myself have been planning for a few months now. We knew we wanted to paint and installation together and formulated a plan – a game if you like, a set of constraints to follow, with which we would make our installation. We were given the rear gallery at Seventh ARI on Gertrude Street and when the day came, we got stuck into it.

Constraints
Three colours, primary – red, yellow and blue. And lighter and/or darker versions of those.One person was to start with one colour, and begin painting.
Then the next person would choose a different colour and respond to the previous iteration.

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April 24, 2013June 2, 2019 by Naomi

Christening My Newish Studio with an Experiment

I want to share with you some play from my first few weeks in this, my new studio (now more newish than new). It’s a good space, reasonable light, quite a decent size, compared to what I’ve had before and after a short period of being stuck on paper, I let fly at the wall.

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April 24, 2013June 2, 2019 by Naomi

Linked Internal Space II

Now I can share with you the other work I made for Art in Public Places, named Linked Internal Space II. It is a further iteration of Linked Internal Space I, at the Substation Transit Gallery. This link to the transit gallery billboards is done through repeated imagined constructed architectural shapes, which spill from the wall to the asphalt below.

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April 23, 2013June 2, 2019 by Naomi

Linked Internal Space I

Here is some my official documentation from the two sites for Art in Public Places. You can see more on my installation page.

When photographing work, it’s a good time to evaluate what I’ve done and to think through the content of the work. Some say that artwork isn’t complete until ‘the viewer’ looks at it…

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