Bunker Talk #170: Nicola Dale

Adventures in Objecthood

Nicola Dale will discuss her position as a visual artist working between sculpture and performance, movement and stillness, the contemporary and archival. With reference to her performance ‘In Mourning’ for The Whitaker Museum and other recent commissions, she will explore how her interests play out across solo, collaborative and participatory work. Whether through reimagining the everyday, reframing bygone rituals or inventing new objects to let loose on the public, she will make a case for the importance of touch, gesture and interaction.

Nicola Dale works in the crevice between performance and sculpture. She has performed at major national galleries including Saatchi, The Hepworth Wakefield and Turner Contemporary, and exhibited at publicly funded, commercial and alternative spaces in the UK and beyond. Nicola has extensive experience of collaboration and her work is included in both private and institutional collections. 

She is based at Rogue Studios, Manchester and is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Leeds Arts University. www.nicoladale.com