Nicola Russell
About
Nicola was born in the UK; travelled by boat to Melbourne, Australia in the 1970s’ and has been travelling the world extensively ever since; working as a filmmaker of award winning films for both the Corporate and Charity sectors. She currently resides in a late a nineteenth century Baptist chapel in the heart of a small village in East Sussex.
Upon discovering her natural affinity with clay, she renounced her career and took up her lifelong dream of going to college to study Art, attending Hastings University to study for a BA (Hons) Designer maker .
Her work is autobiographical, and utilises her natural skills as a story teller; finding the narrative whether, as in her passed life, at a remote location or now, experiencing something currently felt in her mind and body.
Making sense of emotions and translating them into her work, her current body of work is called Parrhesia; which has been produced whilst studying for her MA at the RCA , Ceramics & Glass; which reflects upon loss, and the lingering shadows in her body, heart and mind.
Central to the installation are 400/500 suspended eggs-representing the average number of eggs released in a woman’s fertile lifetime. Floating and fragile, they cast shadows that echo the absence left behind in her body, mind, and heart -a haunting trace of potential unfulfilled.
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