Stickyweeds, Nicola Singh, Image credit: Sarah Boutell
nicola singh
Nicola Singh joined D6 for a research residency from March to April 2019 as part of our programme, There is Beauty in this Journey. Whilst with us, she explored ideas of honesty and autobiography through her performance practice, focusing on her own lived experience in relation to the intersection of race and migration within contemporary art and arts education.
Nicola devised specific methods within her expanded writing practice, using automatic and durational writing, drawing, movement and improvisation to articulate and check in with her own subjectivity around these themes. At the end of the residency, she shared her thinking in a live, improvised performance for an invited audience, filmed by Sarah Boutell.
Nicola used our interactive platform Mural to present an edited section of this performance, which is part of Nicola's ongoing research project into the way in which art shapes our politics on and around race. Please click here to view the piece stickyweeds.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nicola makes work that is rooted in performance and moves across disciplines, as she responds to contexts of feelings and chance, encounter and dialogue and to location and place. She prioritises performative, discursive and physical approaches to her practice, research and pedagogy. Recent performances and exhibitions include the 3-Phase Commission with Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Jerwood Visual Arts, London and Workplace Gallery, Gateshead (2017 - 2018), selection for the UK/KOREA Residency in partnership with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, UK and Hongti Art Centre, South Korea (2018) and presents of new work at IMT Gallery, London (2018), Caustic Coastal, Salford (2018) and Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury (2018).
For more of her work visit Nicola's website: www.nicolasingh.co.uk
Nicola devised specific methods within her expanded writing practice, using automatic and durational writing, drawing, movement and improvisation to articulate and check in with her own subjectivity around these themes. At the end of the residency, she shared her thinking in a live, improvised performance for an invited audience, filmed by Sarah Boutell.
Nicola used our interactive platform Mural to present an edited section of this performance, which is part of Nicola's ongoing research project into the way in which art shapes our politics on and around race. Please click here to view the piece stickyweeds.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nicola makes work that is rooted in performance and moves across disciplines, as she responds to contexts of feelings and chance, encounter and dialogue and to location and place. She prioritises performative, discursive and physical approaches to her practice, research and pedagogy. Recent performances and exhibitions include the 3-Phase Commission with Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Jerwood Visual Arts, London and Workplace Gallery, Gateshead (2017 - 2018), selection for the UK/KOREA Residency in partnership with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, UK and Hongti Art Centre, South Korea (2018) and presents of new work at IMT Gallery, London (2018), Caustic Coastal, Salford (2018) and Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury (2018).
For more of her work visit Nicola's website: www.nicolasingh.co.uk