The dishes are piling up. It’s getting cold. The door must stay ajar for the cat. There’s snot on the shower wall, and the washing machine has a new leak. The dishes just keep piling up...
Don’t Forget the Dishes in Your Bedroom explores the juxtaposition between comfort and discomfort in day-to-day home life. It’s both a gentle reminder to take care, and an acknowledgement that one’s current lifestyle may not be ideal and can be overwhelming.
The exhibition brings the viewer into Nicholson’s experience of flatting in Pōneke and focuses on the challenges of living with strangers out of necessity, staying in poor quality housing, and maintaining self-care through challenging times.
The exhibit features an eclectic mix of ceramic works made between Pōneke and Kapanga. The works are diverse in aesthetic, form and function, and the mix and mess of pieces show the complexities of living in a shared flat while trying to manage and improve poor physical and mental health.
The exhibition-turned bedroom invites the viewer to reflect on their intimate spaces - what’s in those spaces, what are their treasured objects, and how do they use their spaces to care for themselves in times of change and challenge?
Nicholson has always viewed her bedroom as a place of safety. She has always taken pride in her most private of spaces. The exhibition marks an end of an era as she prepares to leave the city and flat within which she has lived for many years - a bittersweet goodbye of sorts.
Don’t Forget the Dishes in Your Bedroom explores the juxtaposition between comfort and discomfort in day-to-day home life. It’s both a gentle reminder to take care, and an acknowledgement that one’s current lifestyle may not be ideal and can be overwhelming.
The exhibition brings the viewer into Nicholson’s experience of flatting in Pōneke and focuses on the challenges of living with strangers out of necessity, staying in poor quality housing, and maintaining self-care through challenging times.
The exhibit features an eclectic mix of ceramic works made between Pōneke and Kapanga. The works are diverse in aesthetic, form and function, and the mix and mess of pieces show the complexities of living in a shared flat while trying to manage and improve poor physical and mental health.
The exhibition-turned bedroom invites the viewer to reflect on their intimate spaces - what’s in those spaces, what are their treasured objects, and how do they use their spaces to care for themselves in times of change and challenge?
Nicholson has always viewed her bedroom as a place of safety. She has always taken pride in her most private of spaces. The exhibition marks an end of an era as she prepares to leave the city and flat within which she has lived for many years - a bittersweet goodbye of sorts.
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