Nicole Price
www.nicole-price.com
@nicolerprice
Statement:
In my current work I am contemplating our surroundings and the objects that we keep, collect, acquire and that accumulate around us.
We carefully curate our home collections, and these become the stage backdrop to our everyday existence. I paint these still-lives whilst feeling the melancholic presence of past lives saturate the images.
I have countless collected and inherited material things, that can be seen and touched and hold memories. They open doors to another time, occasion, people and place; heirlooms that convey a sense of loss and longing.
These possessions act as familial archives for countless shared experiences, carrying invisible markings from the lives and rituals of our predecessors. Their presence depends on sentimentality. They fight for space in the home, a jostling claustrophobic clutter.
I feel the burden of this stuff and the frantic culture of acquiring. As I paint, these collections grow, the irony is not lost on me.
www.nicole-price.com
@nicolerprice
Statement:
In my current work I am contemplating our surroundings and the objects that we keep, collect, acquire and that accumulate around us.
We carefully curate our home collections, and these become the stage backdrop to our everyday existence. I paint these still-lives whilst feeling the melancholic presence of past lives saturate the images.
I have countless collected and inherited material things, that can be seen and touched and hold memories. They open doors to another time, occasion, people and place; heirlooms that convey a sense of loss and longing.
These possessions act as familial archives for countless shared experiences, carrying invisible markings from the lives and rituals of our predecessors. Their presence depends on sentimentality. They fight for space in the home, a jostling claustrophobic clutter.
I feel the burden of this stuff and the frantic culture of acquiring. As I paint, these collections grow, the irony is not lost on me.
The Inheritance II
80 x 100cm
Oil on French Polyester
2021
80 x 100cm
Oil on French Polyester
2021