Master of Fine Art School of Fine Art

Rose Nicholas

(She/Her)

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.

Contact
rosefnicholas@gmail.com
www.rosenicholas.com
@rosefnicholas
Works
Squalid existence (2024)
Radiator leak (2024)
Unbearably missing (2024)
Sleep easy (2024)
Door opening (2023)
Untitled (2022)
Harrow (2022)

Squalid existence (2024)

guttering, PVC piping, pump, boiler flues, boiler guards, drainage channel, rainwater

Radiator leak (2024)

video of sculpture - radiator, mug, water

Unbearably missing (2024)

video of sculpture - late father's clothes, torches

Sleep easy (2024)

roof tiles. 135x185x5cm

Door opening (2023)

Untitled (2022)

video of sculpture. - cattle feeder, net curtains

Harrow (2022)