11Nicola Rawnsley
Village General Store, 1 Daisy Place (closes at 4pm Sun & Mon)
Nicola is a recent graduate from Leeds Arts University with an MA in Creative Practice. Latest artworks explore her industrial working class identity in relation to today’s natural world.
In this series she uses the high rise to epitomize the limitations she felt growing up in a restricted built environment. The flora and fauna represent the freedom she desired with the oak canvas to represent the replacement of the ancient trees with domestic and commercial concrete structures that now dominate the natural environment. The artwork is created by using photographs to produce a mono print as a base to paint upon.
