Nancy Nicholson is a rug weaver and artist. Her work is focused on grounding, dropping an anchor, both in her practice itself and the designs she weaves. Her practice anchors her back technically to millennia of makers, echoing their movements in her own, binding her up in the history of the fibre she works with.
Nancy’s bold, geometric compositions stitch her to the foundations of the modern world around us, drawing on the ratios between everyday objects, roof beams and walls – car wheels and curbs. Her work explores how we move through spaces, how life takes place there, whilst playing with and pushing up against the fundamental grid system of the loom. Raised on a farm in Cumbria to a shepherdess in a multigenerational family of artists, Nancy is stitching that practical, earthborn world to the abstract and aesthetic – a relationship she believes is mirrored in the craft of weaving itself.
