Nikki Davidson-Bowman
Nikki is a conceptual artist & curator working with found things - vintage photographs, ephemera, words, and natural finds from her therapeutic walking - to explore female stories of resilience. She exposes the 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. Research & the process of making are fundamental to her practice, where rules & repetition often feature, developing intriguing installations, interventions, sculptures, collages, prints & poetry. Injecting new life into, often, discarded materials as a body for storytelling, she creates poetic appropriated narratives combined with imagery, to reveal a complex and intimate experience, using the past (vintage words and photographs) to both mask & expose difficult truths that weave together facts with fiction. She works from her home studio on the south coast of England with regular walks to the beach or the woods to clear her head.
