Nikki Holy

About

My work considers the edges of women’s lives.

The places where the ground is unfirm, the body unsafe, the mind unstable.

Women are situated in a world where patriarchy, misogyny and violence are so structurally embedded and bodily internalised that we have lost the capacity to imagine, think and be otherwise.

My work invites you to experience those edges through a visceral encounter with material fragility and precarious curation.

I create sculpture that explores the moment before recognition names and limits experience.

Before we know, we need to not-know and I seek to amplify a space of not-knowing. To explore what it might contain for new ways of thinking and being in the world.

The silence and stillness that implicitly surrounds the work speaks to a quiet, immoveable resistance.