Heather Nicol
Artist Statement
Heather Nicol is grateful to Paperhouse for the opportunity to expand her visual language with the addition of handmade abaca paper. The tactile properties of materials have long been her vehicle for emphasizing on the sensorial aspect of ideas; the potential to feel them before thinking them. Here, items associated with domestic entertaining and display are (re)positioned to explore their formal properties and narrative evocations.
Heather Nicol, Ready for the Doorbell, Arrangement #1, Arrangement #2, Arrangement #3, abaca paper with glass and sand, variable sizes
Bio
Heather Nicol is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator based in Toronto. She has created site-specific installations in New York City for Arts Brookfield USA (The Winter Garden), in Toronto for Art Brookfield Canada, (Allen Lambert Galleria) and Nuit Blanche, (Union Station – the Great Hall), as well as Sculpture Centre (New York), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Hallwalls (Buffalo), Chateau de Courances, (Milly, France), Kunstlerhaus Betanien, (Berlin), among others. Her curatorial projects have often explored site-specific conditions as found in decommissioned, underutilized, repurposed and educational locations, and have fostered opportunities for large groups of artists working across a wide range of disciplines. She received her BFA (honours) from the School of Visual Arts in New York, MA in art education from NYU, and interdisciplinary MFA from OCAD University.
