Nina Archer

Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, United Kingdom

About Nina Archer

The work has a broad association with landscape and is resonant with marks made by cultivation, ancient and modern. I work building up multiple layers with palette knife and then sanding, scoring and erasing to reveal or obscure a memory of something previous. I use elements of what I see, predominantly from the landscape, paring down to simple abstraction. Contrast and balance are an important part of the work - the juxtaposition of of negative space with areas of textural layering. Through the application of multiple layers of gesso, charcoal, acrylic and graphite, I am always aware of how important accident or the element of chance are, changing the direction of the work and taking it down a different route. My training and background is in design and this has had a significant effect on my understanding of form, proportion and mark making and has been instrumental in the development of a graphic approach to the work.

Education:

BA Hons Graphic Design

Exhibitions:

2018
Other Art Fair, The Passenger Shed, Bristol, 27-29 July
Hope Gallery, West Yorkshire
The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, Bloomsbury, London, 22-25 March
Selected member of Artcan
Pre selected for RWA Open
RWS exhibition Bankside Gallery 2-14 March
2017
Art&, York, 27-29 October
The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London, 5-8 October
The Other Art Fair, Bristol , 1-3 September
London Contemporary Art 
Store Street Gallery, London 
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, represented by London Contemporary Art 
2016
MADE London
Brighton Art Fair
The Other Art Fair, Bristol 
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea represented by London Contemporary Art 
Store Street Gallery, London 
2015 
Building new studio 
2014 
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, represented by Nicholas Bowlby 
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, MADE exhibition Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London, represented by Nicholas Bowlby 
Masham Gallery, Yorkshire
 Brighton Art Fair 
2013
 Fulham Palace Art Fair
Brighton Art Fair 

Nina Archer

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