Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Niki Sutherland
WIP
Other
2025
Wood from a coffee table, bedframe, craft sticks. Metal frame of a lampshade. Yarn, thread, beads, fishing wire, and copper piping. Found birds nest.
19"x 34" (wall sculpture) approx. 72" from wall to birds nest on pedestal (26" in height)
A work in progress. Made from discarded materials and found objects.
“This assemblage is a purely joy-driven engagement with found materials. Made from a discarded coffee table, bed frame, metal lamp frame, yarn, thread, copper piping, beads, and a bird’s nest, it is a quiet altar to the connectivity between materials, people, and environments. I see it as a sculptural map of intimacy, repair, and entanglement. It is built from things once abandoned, reimagined into a form that holds growth and care as its architecture.”
Work by
Niki Sutherland
Multidisciplinary Artist
“This body of work relates to an ongoing exploration into the relationships or narratives that emerge from my engagement with repurposed materials. Acting as both medium and collaborator, found...” [More]
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