Nikki Davidson-Bowman East Sussex, United Kingdom
I am a multi-media conceptual artist working with found photographs, ephemera & words to highlight female stories of resilience. I explore the darker sides of life, blurring the semi-autobiographical with fiction to highlight the precariousness of being human & start conversations about silent happenings, such as infertility, dementia, being a family carer, anxiety & disability.
I am a conceptual artist working with found things - vintage photographs, ephemera, words, and natural finds from my therapeutic walking - to explore female stories of resilience. I expose the often hidden, darker sides of life, blurring the semi-autobiographical with fiction to highlight the precariousness of being human, to start intergenerational dialogues about silent happenings, such as terminal illness, infertility, grief, dementia, caregiving & hearing loss, from a female perspective.
The artworks I create vary in medium from collage, drawing, poetry, book arts, printmaking, momentary interventions, installation and video.
Walking in rural locations from the empty coastland path to the wild woodlands ground me and give me time to process emotions and creative ideas. It’s unusual for me to return home without an idea brewing or something gathered in my pocket. My go to art materials usually involve thread, a needle for piercing, papers, a glue stick and scalpel. Since the lockdowns I have regularly added drawing to my practice – always in a permanent pen with no pencil or rubber in sight! It is very much not about perfection but often repetition, scientific, and meandering.
