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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
Click
here for artists statement





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