At Fermynwoods our work often reaches out into the wider environment, community and society - from local to international projects our aim is to make the experience of engaging with art accessible to all.

Jacques Nimki:
Fermynwoods Contemporary Art in collaboration with retail investment trust Land Securities presents Jacques Nimki: I want nature, showcasing a curiously alluring art installation of a rural wildflower meadow within the urban surroundings of Corby’s shopping centre.

I want nature is the culmination of a two-year residency project with artist Jacques Nimki. Nimki’s work is inspired by weeds – the ‘outsiders’ of the plant world that thrive in neglected and hidden places. He uses a variety of mediums to examine ideas that relate predominantly to the urban environment. At Fermynwoods he has been investigating the wonderful array of weeds currently inhabiting its offsite venue at Sudborough Green Lodge cottages and the adjacent SSSI wild flower meadow in Fermyn Woods - developing his practice through research and transforming the extensive garden area.

For this project Nimki has produced a vast meadow of wild plants and weeds which has been transported to the incongruous venue of a shop unit within Corby town shopping centre. Both vulnerable and threatening, the wildlife supported by the meadow will grow, die and change in an unpredictable manner throughout the course of the month long installation.

66 Corporation Street, opposite McDonalds.
18 September - 17 October 2009

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