Nicola Turner British, b. 1967
Morceaux Noir, 2025
mixed media including wool, polyamide, wood and steel
149 x 42 x 55 cm
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'I was feeling very fragile while making this work. I created it during the weeks I had a biopsy and awaited the results. It is a piece that went through...
"I was feeling very fragile while making this work. I created it during the weeks I had a biopsy and awaited the results. It is a piece that went through a few iterations before becoming its final form.
The title is taken from a box of off cuts of silk I have been generously given by my sister-in-law, from the family house she was clearing out in the Jura region of France earlier this year. I had driven out to rescue some horsehair mattresses."
Nicola Turner
Incorporating light or dark wool, netted and teetering on tailor’s shears and tripods, Turner's freestanding sculptures have a powerful yet elegant presence. As Hettie Judah describes, they “offset their earthy, bestial nature by deploying a veneer of delicacy”, referencing in their titles ideas around female desire, bodily shame and emotional secrecy.
The title is taken from a box of off cuts of silk I have been generously given by my sister-in-law, from the family house she was clearing out in the Jura region of France earlier this year. I had driven out to rescue some horsehair mattresses."
Nicola Turner
Incorporating light or dark wool, netted and teetering on tailor’s shears and tripods, Turner's freestanding sculptures have a powerful yet elegant presence. As Hettie Judah describes, they “offset their earthy, bestial nature by deploying a veneer of delicacy”, referencing in their titles ideas around female desire, bodily shame and emotional secrecy.
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