Nicola Anthony

Profile: Blog: http://nicolaanthony.wordpress.com/ Site: http://www.nicolaanthony.co.uk/ Artist, London Using text, stories and voices as sculptural materials, and sentences as lines with which to draw, Nicola Anthony has a fascination in moments, secrets and stories. Her artwork is inspired by language, memory, mapping, collecting, biological references & literary sources. Her sculptural works & drawings possess delicate, rich and sometimes chaotic forms, built up & constructed through layers of detail & assemblage. Nicola’s self proclaimed obsession is with the way we read meaning into texts and artworks, the ‘semantics’ of images & symbols: “The way in which viewers join the dots can alter the work in their eyes. This means my art can be playful and changing - I enjoy the viewer’s interpretations becoming part of the art, and the art becoming personal to them.” This links closely to her fascination with the connection between the materials, the senses and the experience of artworks. Recently featured in a SKYArts interview with the artist, the words & stories which form the basis of the work are collected through her ongoing ‘Word Collection Project’: Gathering stories & secrets during exhibitions, events, through the artist’s website and word of mouth. Contributions have been beautiful, moving, dark, funny, intriguing, rude, touching, & varied. The collection exists both as an evolving text artwork and a whispered sound work. Anthony uses these words to inspire & create her new works: “I use sentences to structure the work, I start applying them as marks & drawing with them as lines. One of my favourite things about seeing people view my work is when they come up really close to read the words, & start stretching, crouching & shuffling along as they follow the sentences – the only type of line which insists people look at every component of it from left to right.”

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