Nicole Coson | Artist

Nicole Coson’s artworks combine traditional print-making techniques with indexical mark-making and physical gestures to create images which engage with diaspora, temporality, history, and material culture. In her paintings, she translates ubiquitous, utilitarian objects onto large sheets of handwoven linen creating beautiful and consuming successive patterns. In doing so, she seeks to reconcile materiality, design, and utility to examine how our environments affect us, as well as how we project ourselves onto our surroundings. Her wall-based works contemplate self-preservation and self-protection, dealing with economies of visibility and disappearance.

Coson’s art practice is supplemented by occasional culinary and publishing projects, such as the ongoing Food Stories: The Silkroad, where food is explored as a palimpsest of migration histories—of people, spices, and recipes. In 2024, her work will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Silverlens in New York. Her work was featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2020 and she has since held solo exhibitions at Ben Hunter, London and Silverlens, Manila.

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