Kirstie Faye Nichols

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Evolving from experience, my work is intended to invite the viewer to encounter artwork through expressive materials. The portrayal of character is important, the use of snippets from old clothes embodies personality, reminding the viewer of the lives and events touched. A predominantly textiles and paper-based artist, I am interested in books (both reading and binding), and the making of something from next-to-nothing through the development of traditional crafts into complex and conceptual investigations into human presence.

www.kirstie-nichols.co.uk

University of Leeds

By: Kirstie Faye Nichols
‘Contemporary Art Practice’ has been a journey of finding my own way ofmaking art through the building of theoretical knowledge and with an academic weight. A year of study in the Czech Read on…

Kirstie Faye Nichols, ‘Forget-me-knots in a sea of stitches (for my Father)’, Mixed-media (mostly cotton fabric), July 2007-May 2008.A hand-stitched quilt made through cathartic process, including clothes from my childhood and my family and friends - the quilt is designed to symbolize mourning and loss, through the community act of sewing and bringing together of people over distance. A safe place.. a haven.

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Kirstie Nichols, 'Escape-aid', Mixed Media, April 2008. A reference to the therapeutic nature of the making of the quilt, this is a supporting work. Healing through making.