Horsehair with Nicola Turner & Mick Sheridan

I am joined by the wonderful Nicola Turner & Mick Sheridan, speaking about sculptures, upholstery, waste, horsehair and wool..

Nicola Turner: https://www.instagram.com/nicolaturner.art/?hl=en Mick Sheridan: https://www.instagram.com/m.s.upholstery/?hl=en

Nicola is an artist with a background in set and costume design. She has designed for The Royal Opera House, National Theatre and Sydney Opera House to name a few.. Today we will be talking about her sculptures. As an artist Turner investigates dissolution of boundaries, liminal states, and continuous exchanges across ecosystems.. exploring the interconnection of life and death, human and non- human, attraction and repulsion. She combines found objects that hold traces of memory, with the shapes of living forms, and materials from organic ‘dead’ matter such as horsehair - a material used previously for bedding and furniture. Her sprawling sculpture, The Meddling Fiend, in the Royal Academy courtyard has been a highlight for many visitors to this year’s Summer Exhibition.

Mick is a second generation upholsterer based in Wales, proficient in both traditional and modern methods, and specialising in British wool fabrics. Mick’s Guerilla Reupholstery project finds fly tipped or discarded furniture on the streets, and transforms them into something new.. Using as much of the existing materials as possible and augmenting that with waste products from their reupholstery business. The chairs are sculptural, several being made in collaboration with an artist, and one with a Designer/Weaver.

Mick's Guerilla Upholsterer account: https://www.instagram.com/guerrilla_upholsterer/?hl=en The Meddling Fiend at The Royal Academy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7gVTwxvhPk Julie Ann Sheridan: https://www.instagram.com/sheridanjulieann/ Sadie Campbell: https://www.instagram.com/sadiedidi/

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