Today on @the_grateful_web Art Podcast I’m joined by Nicola Ellis, an artist whose practice is deeply rooted in industry, collaboration, and materiality. Much of Nicola’s work has developed through her long-standing relationship with the Blackburn-based engineering company Ritherdon & Co, where she has worked alongside fabricators and factory workers to explore how knowledge, skill, and labour are embedded within materials and industrial processes.
Alongside discussing the exhibition, we also talk openly about the importance of artist support, the Festival of Making, networks, collaboration, and creating sustainable ways for artists to continue working and developing outside increasingly fragile arts structures.
I had the privilidge of speaking to Nicola at her current exhibition Exercises in Knowing at HOME, Manchester a major new presentation that brings together sculpture, sound, and installation. Her film documenting the factories workers creates a fitting backdrop to our conversation echoing her process and the environment and the workers who inspired this fabulous exhibition.
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