Three Saw Blades

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Nicola Rawnsley is a recent graduate from Leeds Arts University with an MA in Creative Practice. Recent artworks explore her northern working-class identity in relation to today’s natural world.

I intend to explore the intersection of man-made mechanical time and rhythms of nature. I want to focus particularly on the disruptions that arise when these temporal orders clash. My artwork will capture the point when nature makes headway and asserts its precedence over human intentions.

I aim to photograph and use an abandoned building, such as a high rise or a post industrial site, as a metaphor for man-made time. They also provide commentary on humanity’s environmental exploitation and urbanisation, which has disrupted natural cycles through the removal of trees. I will use Oak veneer, symbolically, to represent nature’s timescales.