Strange animals bells gold

February 7 - February 25, 2023

  • Nicola Farquhar



installation view - front gallery



installation view - front gallery



installation view - front gallery



installation view - front gallery



installation view - front gallery



installation view - back gallery



installation view - back gallery



installation view - back gallery


Strange animals bells gold is Nicola Farquhar's first show with JSG, and we are delighted to welcome her to our lineup.
The following text on this body of work has been written by Abby Cunnane...

"When she writes about the moon as ‘a chin of gold’, Emily Dickinson gives us an image in phases.[1]

The face, all chin; 
the chin, all gold;
the gold, all moon. 

Gold runs through this series of recent works by Nicola Farquhar as a colour and as an idea; gold is inert, ductile, malleable. Perhaps it is a living thing too: a terrestrial, non-human—animal or mineral—companion which inhabits them. Associated with light, gold and yellow evoke the warmth needed for biological organisms to survive, as well as the heat which has the potential to kill them. More directly, sun is used in the making of elements of the works, toasting the paper mâché circles crisp, while others suggest they may require oxygen, with breathing straws or periscopes attached to a marine body. A bell, too, has its anatomy: a yoke, a crown, a lip, a shoulder, a waist. And a mouth, on occasion, full of sound."

 
[1] Emily Dickinson, ‘The moon was but a chin of gold’, Complete Poems: Emily Dickinson (London: Faber & Faber, 2016)




Selected works


Enthripadar, 2022


House, 2023



Flower, 2022



Fei, 2022
 


Eirth, 2022



God/Elf, 2023

 

Osisp, 2022 Mirror-palm, 2022

 

Flower tall, 2022 Brush, 2021

 

Goldilocks, 2023 CeCe, 2021

 

 

Installing...


Jonathan measuring the height for the hanging of House, 2023, in the front gallery

 

 

Details of works