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BIOGRAPHY
Nicola Carvell - Artist's Statement
Having emerged from a background in painting, my main concerns when making work are form, colour and the over-processing of these elements. I see my practice as having grown outward from the flat painterly surface into physical space to confront the viewer.
Being immersed in the current rock music and related alternative fashion scene in London, I absorb the aesthetic statements being circulated. I process much of this imagery digitally where colours and forms can be 'turned-up' to exist as concentrate-becoming plastic rather than illusory. From this I hope to create expanded paintings that can be considered visually and experienced physically.
Ultimately, I see my work as a forwarding of current youth culture. Whilst embracing its seductive enamel, I endeavor to simultaneously reveal it's dark underside through the process of mutation as neon colors, sprayed outlines and dynamic forms chemically interact upon the surface.
Biography
Nicola Carvell is a London-based artist whose work deals with youth culture and its fearless outlook toward the future. Emerging from a background in painting, Nicky moved onto develop a more sculptural outlook at Goldsmiths, culminating in 9ft high steel lightning bolts at her degree show in 2006. Now at the Royal Academy of Arts schools, her work sits between traditional disciplines, instigating bold and inventive forms through both digital and painterly means.
She has shown in various group shows around London and curated an exhibition of 20 young Artists entitled Powderlux in 2006, which was concerned with plasticity and the over-manipulation of colour and form, for which an electronic soundtrack was also produced.
Seeing music as the central stimulation to her practice, she has designed various album covers for independent artists, fabricated stage banners and photographed bands live. Her work has also been published in Super Super magazine. From this experience, she feels that the lines between art, design, music and fashion are becoming increasingly blurred and this cross-fertilization provides an exciting new approach to making art. Believing that ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬Åthe private view night of a show is the only part worth going to,ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâàher work embraces social interaction through means such as showing in unconventional spaces, as this breaks the ideal of the ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¹Ã
âwhite cubeÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢. Rather than the viewer simply regarding the distanced art object, an immersive environment is invoked where a more direct response is encouraged.
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