Nicole Coson | Artist

Nicole Coson’s paintings 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 work, Coson 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. Both her wall-based works and sculptures point to self-preservation and self-protection, dealing with economies of visibility and disappearance.

Coson lives and works in London, UK and is represented by Ben Hunter, London and Silverlens, Manila. Recent exhibitions include Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, UK; Undercurrents, Ben Hunter, London, UK; In Passing, Silverlens, New York, USA; Midnight Murmurs, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, USA; And this skin of mine, to live again a second time, Guts Gallery, London, UK and Home, Blue Mountain School, London, UK. 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.

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