© Ollie Tomlinson / 8 Holland Street Gallery
Nikki Gardham was born in Essex, and is now living and working in East London.
Nikki studied at Cambridge School of Art before attending The Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School in 2013.
The subject matter of her work implies a human relationship to spaces and draws upon contemporary observations, imagination and folklore.
In the studio she takes her work through different processes – drawing / collage / paint – which helps to state the intention of the work more emphatically or allow it to morph and evolve into something new and surprising. Not knowing what will happen means the work needs to be made to find out.
Nikki divides her time between working in her studio in Wapping, and running art engagement workshops in collaboration with some of London most inspiring collections & institutions, including Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Royal Drawing School, Wallace Collection and the V&A.
nikki gardham: up our street
“The past is a foreign country and, yes, they do things differently there, but artist Nikki Gardham is comforted by that thought...”
In January 2023 Nikki was interviewed by 8 Holland Street for their ‘Up Our Street’ feature, profiling the artist in her Dockland studio.
Click here to read the article and to view works held by 8 Holland Street in their High Street Kensington and Bath galleries.
© Ollie Tomlinson / 8 Holland Street Gallery
