Nia’s Work

This experience has given me a chance to work collaboratively for the first time. It was intriguing to learn about each other’s practises and get to use them to create a final work that demonstrates all these skills. I personally enjoyed the chance to reuse previous work and recycle scraps into something new and interesting, showing that you do not need to have brand new materials to create beautiful art. We mainly looked at each other for inspiration during this project, trying to find a common ground that interested us all, with nature being an obvious topic. However when briefly looking at more well known artists, I came across a work I’ve visited in the National Museum Cardiff, a piece by Su Blackwell called ‘Sessile Oak’. This work uses an old Cardiff business directory to create a tree from the pages. This tree appears to be growing from the centre of the book. I felt that this work was a lovely example of what we were trying to do in our collaborative practise, reusing something old or useless and making something beautiful from it.

I would like to thank the Mission Gallery for this wonderful opportunity, my fellow artists for working with me and the Foundation Staff at Swansea Collage of Art for use of their support and use of the studios.