Master of Fine Art School of Fine Art
Rose Nicholas
Suggestive anthropomorphisms, uncontrollable motion, and surreal domesticity lie at the core of Rose Nicholas’s practice. Working with found quotidian objects, she extracts them from their natural habitat and introduces them to a new environment, testing their functionality.
The Everyday plays a major role throughout her practice as she estranges the familiar, causing one to reflect on what underlies the mundane. Ceaseless cycles and continual leaks are recurrent motifs throughout her work. She highlights the unstoppable and ever-changing facets of life that elude our attempts at control. The work has a humorous and melancholic tone as it ostensibly presents as something of importance, but on closer inspection, it is seemingly futile, leaving a sense of paradox.