Vegvisir Limbo, Screen print, hand embellished drawing with posca pen on paper 60 x 60cm, detail at the end

Dear good people,

In this newsletter...

• Whats happening in the studio
• Print Launch Party & Open Studio Weekend
• Prints

With only two weeks to go until the studio party & open weekend I have been busying making maquettes for a large sculptural work made from ghost netting (fishing nets that have been abandoned, lost or discarded in the ocean) which I have collected from the seafront over this last year or so. This work is directly inspired by the screen prints (above & the bottom of this newsletter) and is an embodiment of the original drawing that the screen prints came from.

Happening in the studio.....

Here are some pictures of that research, exploration and work in progress:

Sculptural work…..

This year I am taking some time to research further into the entangled relationship we have with the sea. Developing works to create a new body of sculptural installations using ghost netting and other plastics I've found washed ashore. Opposite you can see an example of a work in progress which will hang from the ceiling. This follows on from the sculptural works found in my solo show Entangle at Phoenix Art Space last year (see below). 

Sculptural installation made with ghost netting, May 2024

Print Launch Party & open weekend details:

Party on Friday, the 25th of April from 6 pm until 9 pm (may well go on later) with cheese and wine, music, and general merriment.

I will also open on Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th of April which you can come see the work, have a chat and cup of tea and biscuits between 10am and 4pm. 

You can find me at my studio here in Portslade:

Unit 30

3rd Floor

Trafalgar house

72a North Street

Portslade

BN41 1DG

20 minutes by train (10mins) and foot (10mins) from Brighton station and 15 minutes by car, there is free parking on boundary Road if you can’t find a space on North Street itself. 

• Sorry there is no lift in the building so no disability access 

The screen prints...

I was inspired to draw and to learn how to screen print while writing a grant application this winter.

This intricate drawing is made up of many parts from sea angels to weather systems, corals to the kraken and the fine workings of our own body systems. Inspired by sea folklore, science, the ever changing sensations of being immersed in the sea and the entanglement of our emotional and environmental relationship with it.

Screen print, hand embellished drawing with posca pen on paper 60 x 60cm, detail at the end

4 layer screen print on paper 60 x 60cm, detail below

Screen print on paper 60 x 60cm,detail at the bottom

3 layer screen print on paper 60 x 60cm detail at the end

 So if you can make it to my open studio weekend you will see how I have progressed with these sculptures, new paintings and more prints from this collection.

Please RSVP

Looking forward to catching up with you .

All my very best

Nina

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Unit 30

3rd Floor

Trafalgar house

72a North Street

Portslade

BN41 1DG

Details of prints above