Artist Biography
Nika Neelova
Through her work Nika Neelova uses reclaimed architectural materials to explore our sense of time and place. Her sculptures and installations, made often with reclaimed architectural materials, are created by employing tactics of what she calls “reverse archaeology”, by passing straightforward means of fabrication to find modes of retrieving and revealing information within the multiplicities of human histories within inanimate things.
Works
Handblown glass
28 cm diameter
Clay, oil, varnish
35 x 28 x 5 cm
Reassembled bannister handrails
120 x 100 x 40 cm
Reassemled reclaimed solid mahogany handrails
140x100x70 cm
Reassembled mahogany handrails, two flights of stairs
150 x 40 x 40 cm
Handblown glass, reclaimed chandelier parts
25 x 15 x 15 cm
Unfired clay, silicone, aluminium frame
60 x 49 x 5 cm
