Engage Artist

Niki Gandy

Artform:
Interdisciplinary/Fine Art
Year:
2021-22
Location:
Rugeley, Staffs
Influences:
Ichigo Ichie, Soren Kierkegaard, Carlo Rovelli, Uta Barth, Andrei Tarkovski's "Nostalghia"
Email:
myownconga@gmail.com
Project summary:

Due to the pandemic’s effects on my studies, I was forced to effectively double the length of time spent on my MA, meaning that my practice extended far beyond the point at which I might initially have resolved it. This has left me in a position of transition, working towards a new stage in development, with my work becoming far looser and more figural than ever before. I am investigating the mapping of time through meditative drawing, using both light and time as raw materials. I am interested in the futility of the human inclination towards the need to freeze time, as well as our individual perceptions of the moment and of memory – and where one becomes another. My work is interdisciplinary incorporating video, photography, drawing and performance, with my current ideas surrounding the idea between all of these mediums combining in a way that I perceive as being of the photographic.

With the conclusion of my residency I began a PhD at my host university, the University of Wolverhampton, having spent the year in its studios working on my proposal and laying the groundwork for my research, supported by some amazing staff who would go on the be me supervisory team.

Due to the pandemic’s effects on my studies, I was forced to effectively double the length of time spent on my MA, meaning that my practice extended far beyond the point at which I might initially have resolved it. This has left me in a position of transition, working towards a new stage in development, with my work becoming far looser and more figural than ever before. I am investigating the mapping of time through meditative drawing, using both light and time as raw materials. I am interested in the futility of the human inclination towards the need to freeze time, as well as our individual perceptions of the moment and of memory – and where one becomes another. My work is interdisciplinary incorporating video, photography, drawing and performance, with my current ideas surrounding the idea between all of these mediums combining in a way that I perceive as being of the photographic.

With the conclusion of my residency I began a PhD at my host university, the University of Wolverhampton, having spent the year in its studios working on my proposal and laying the groundwork for my research, supported by some amazing staff who would go on the be me supervisory team.

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