Text-based Art
My writing spills out into visual art! Take a look
Writing
Redrawing Maps
Kind Hearts: Marlow Bottom, Buckinghamshire Very unusually, a picture is getting worked on for more than one hour and over more than one evening. This map is of…
Always, Often, Sometimes, Rarely, Never: Disordered Narratives & Quantum Process
An exploration of the use of metrics in mental health, by way of disordered poetics, visual text and the power of The Little Prince
Water and Dust: A Conversation with my Dad, about his Dad
‘My dad’s stories depicted in the images in this essay focus on his early life on the then new St. Helier housing estate on the Carshalton/Mitcham border in south London…’
Visual life-writing
Nicola writes: “Most of my visual work is life-writing. It’s an expression of feelings, thoughts, reactions, and stories from my life, and it’s evolved organically out of post-traumatic…
How to Be Strong
Nicola describes how she became interested in clay and various ways it can be used in art, specifically focusing on the use of clay as a way to express her feelings about her body, illness and the current political climate.
All the art!
A sketchbook made during a visit to the ‘In the Studio’ galleries at Tate Modern, with my friends and colleagues from Studio Upstairs Croydon.
Shop
Artworks available as archive quality, numbered artist-proof prints at any A size. As a guide, around A4 is £50+postage and A3 is £60+ postage – unframed. For sales…
Take Uncle John
text © Nicola Field 2007 soundscape © Steven Brown 2007 voice: Clare Cameron
Planet Earth
Planet Earth 7’31” ‘Days that open out onto one another, like rooms in a museum…’ Sensory overload and a dizzying wait for recovery: a train trip into the…
All She Wanted was Someone to Love
All She Wanted was Someone to Love 7’36” There was this man who said Come up north! He said: Come up, come soon I want to show…
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