NICOLA TURNER MRSS

Turner investigates the dissolution of boundaries, in-betweenness, and the continuous exchange of ecosystems. In doing so, she explores the interconnection of life and death, human and non-human, attraction and repulsion. Turner combines found objects that hold traces of memory, the shapes of living forms, and materials from organic ‘dead’ matter such as horsehair- a material used previously for bedding and furniture and, in that regard, soaked with lived history. The pieces are part of a vital and thriving microcosmos comprised of human and non-human agents which function mostly beyond our conscious contemplation. Her work resonates with the notion of abjection and, consequently, carries within it an acute awareness of death. Amid this state of confusion and unsettlement, however, an affirmation of life’s forces is simultaneously allowed to arise. The dark is needed to value the light and the light has meaning due to the presence of darkness.