Sheila Hicks is one of the most recent artists I have found and I believe she and her work will help me a lot in most of my works. Hicks’ media is textile and she has all sort of work from commercial objets to massive installations.
She paints and sculpts in space. Connection between her, site-specific installations and space, wall hanging objects, transforming a space through colour-soaked and large-scale sculpture are all fascinating.
Size : 26 Elements 250 x 20 cm, 98 3/8 x 7 7/8 ins, each
Media : Installation Cotton, wool, linen, silk, bamboo, synthetic fibres
connection between this artwork and my practice:
Hicks’s material is her visual language to talk about her feelings. She uses traditional techniques in a minimal way to create a composition of colours, lines and textures in her work.
I first collected this art work only because I liked the form and relationship between the lines and colours, but now I am more interested on the forms of the lines individually and in the group also relationship of them to the space. She has a wonderful understanding of space and architecture how, she engages and activates her work with space create unique composition.
In one of her interviews she mentioned that she works the same way that ceramists do.
The other aspect is feeling her body was involved, making process and also using traditional method and go against it are other connections.
This artwork and Eva Hesse’s “Right After” are the main inspiration for one of my projects.
