NIKKI WARD
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR | STAND J4
Redheads
2024, paper-cut sculpture,
24.5x28.5x7cm | £595
Butterflies & Pots
2024, paper-cut sculpture,
17.5x36.5x8cm | £630
You Give Me Butterflies
2024, paper-cut sculpture,
26x21.5x8cm | £575
Take Me Match
2024, paper-cut sculpture,
27x30.5x7cm | £545
Hands & Butterflies 4
2023, paper-cut sculpture,
29.5x33.5x7cm | £650
Hands & Butterflies 3
2023, paper-cut sculpture,
21x25x7cm | £595
Bird & Butterflies
2023, paper-cut sculpture,
19x19x7cm | £495
Butterflies & Arms
2023, paper-cut sculpture,
24.5x19.5x8cm | £575
Nude & Butterflies
2023, paper-cut sculpture,
23.5x21.5x7cm | £540
Balloons
2023, paper-cut sculpture,
40x20x7.5cm | £630
Nikki's artworks are hand-built with scalpel, glue and tweezers, housed in traditionally-made taxidermy boxes, glazed with exhibition anti-reflective glass and framed with authentic passe partout tape. Her works are made from found and bought vintage objects and books. They are a reaction and a response to the found materials - an excercise in both transformation and preservation - each piece is wholly unique.
'Once-loved and valued treasures now gather dust and are destined to further decline; books that are damaged or foxed and no longer used for their original purpose, outgrown toys and forgotten treasures. I am imparting in these decaying artefacts a new narrative and a renewed value.'
Trained in Art and Design in Norwich followed by a Visual and Performing Arts Degree (BA Hons) at the University of Brighton.
Works owned by many private collectors.
Exhibited with Object Trouve Gallery, Alfriston; Made Gallery, Cirencester;Ditchling Museum Of Arts & Crafts; The Coach House, Alfriston; Lewes Art Wave, Ringmer; Brighton Artist's Open Houses;Translations, Regency Town House Brighton; Two Cats & a Cow Gallery, Brighton; Brighton Books; Neptune, Hove.