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Slant (SMED)Nicky Hirsts working method is usually to observe and unravel. It is an exploration of serendipity within the everyday. Starting points may be objects, places or words which she then shifts, manipulates or juxtaposes. By noticing what is already there a visual poetry is revealed in the ordinary. In Slant (SMED), Nicky employs the tree like shape of the Ikea BONDSKARET coat stand, originally created by Rutger Andersson in 1978 and was then named SMED.

It also addresses themes of power dynamics

the fragility of the installation and its ephemeral caracter

The work attempts to speak for the ghosts and leftovers that remain after extraction

Prominent themes in my work include the performativity of the queer body

while challenging traditional notions of painting by using unconventional

I was reading and thinking about the Anthropocene and the climate crisis and ideas around the underland

and where the fantastical brushes up against the intimate logic of personal mythology

letting them settle and take root

less a body than a gesture of rupture

This particular work was selected for a group show early this year at Shoreditch Modern Gallery in London

One farmer calls the llamas

incorporating flowers and wings resembling an evening gown