About — Nicolette McGuire

I make groups of work that connect and talk to each other. They are maps of exploring walks that I do. I love space, solitude, wilderness and watching the movement of water.

I walk alone in wild places noticing both tiny details and the whole land/seascape . I move in and out both physically and in my mind. Seeing both. Holding both. I am immersed, alone but not. Art, like walking, is an exploration. It can feel euphoric or fearful. Is full of choice and accident, decision and procrastination but essentially discovery. I feel alive.

I sketch, draw with ink, sand, salt crystals and salt water, document collected objects, ordering and altering then leaving them on the sand. I swim in the waves and creeks. I take images of myself in the spaces, I leave traces of where I have been that wash away with the incoming tide or the wind. I make ‘magical, mythical’ objects. In mapping the places with drawing, I return myself to the feeling of being there. Immersed in the work. Lost in solitude.