NINA ROYLE
Nina is a painter, printmaker, writer, and crafter of quiet exploratory performances, working from West Cornwall. Her work often delves deeply into a single subject - the colour blue for example or a deep black Japanese ink. She pulls on threads that connect meanings latent in symbols, materials and mythologies, stitching them together to form something mesmerising and new.
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Our working relationship began in 2019, where we showed some of her paintings as part of Unbounded, an exhibition at the Eden Project that explored the many layers of Cornwall’s social and environmental landscapes. Then in 2020 we commissioned her for From the Field, a programme of digital artist commissions we produced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nina adapted a text she wrote over the course of the lockdown that reflected on ideas about humanness, health, transformation and our relationship to the environment. She used this to create Tongues and Mirrors in Mercury - a web page containing a highly zoomed-in scrollable image of a woodblock print, combined with an audio performance of the text.
We’ve enjoyed Nina’s work for many years and hope to find more ways to work together in the future.
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Images: Thalassic Image Cycle, 2019, photo Steve Tanner / Tongues and Mirrors in Mercury, From the Field, 2020 / Thalassic Image Cycle, Unbounded, 2019, photo Steve Tanner
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