‘Lucile’s love and confusion of beautiful & strange perversions’ Sculpture

I am a mixed media artist currently working within the realms of miniature installation, collage and print. Small scale detailed constructions, reminiscent of Victorian peepshows, draw the viewer via a tiny aperture, into fully realised environments. Working predominantly with found objects to create theatrically charged narratives, my work is often surreal, full of symbolism, playfulness, humour, tension, sexual charge, and a search for beauty and deeper meaning. “Nina’s work is utterly compelling - it has that rare quality of holding dark, playful and ethereal elements all at once. She fashions unique shimmering works in her obscura tins that hold secrets to discover.... in this way her art joyfully celebrates old fashioned industrial / commercial function and form whilst also offering a journey into the sublimely whimsical and surreal”  China Moo Young, TV & film director ninamankin.tumblr.com www.ninamankin.co.uk