PRESENTING

For All That You Have Taught Me (2024)

A Solo Exhibition in Collaboration with

THE SERIES

A bespoke series of five large scale hand crafted and original textile artworks: celebrating milestones and representing influential relationships that shape our lives.

Another stepping stone on the journey of self-reflection and human observation. Nikki’s process on larger canvas has been an opportunity to examine scale and detail in a new way, which builds upon her debut series, Foremost Fragments (2021).

Marking the start of her 40th year, For All That You Have Taught Me (2024) visually narrates the emotional intricacies of our journeys as humans as we approach milestones in our life; focusing particularly on those people in our lives that physically and metaphorically shape us.

“It is human nature to search for narrative in all things. Narrative formation occurs in the mind, yet requires a bodily and physical experience to be initiated.

— Nikki Heaton

THE WORKS

Presented are five visual stories, representing five influential relationships.

The mother, the aunt, the friend, the spouse and the child; each work explores how our deepest human connections and kinship create the foundation of our complex lives.

Compassion, integrity, respect, kindness, courage and love. Each work explores these six tenets of kinship in 6 visual sections - juxtaposing in complex minimal harmony.

Marking the start of her 40th year, For All That You Have Taught Me (2024) visually narrates the emotional intricacies of our journeys as humans…

FORM

Each work explores six tenets of kinship, through six visual and interlinking sections.

Compassion, integrity, respect, kindness, courage and love. Each work explores these six tenets of kinship in 6 visual sections - juxtaposing in complex minimal harmony.

THE DETAILS

Colour

An introspective exploration of grounded earth pigments in bespoke handmade ink and lake pigments.

Chromatic natural ink mix to form a broad depth of textured patina: Pooling, layering, watermarks and creasing creative individualised formations on cotton canvas.