Niki Chandler
Cambridge, UK
Niki is a maker of constructed textile panels, quilts, embroideries and monotype prints. Craftsmanship and the beauty of precision is at the heart of her aesthetic.
As an abstract artist/printmaker, Niki works predominantly with synthetic dance net, a link to her former profession as a theatrical production designer and costumier.
In her fine art printmaking practice she investigates the potential of textiles as an expressive drawing medium, as a way to make tangible her thoughts and to inform the way forward in her stitched artworks.
Intrigued by the phenomenon of light dancing on surface, those fleeting and ethereal moments of illumination, much of her artistic output concerns itself with a sense of loss and mortality, often employing the notion of the shadow as metaphor in expressing the evanescence of life and the transient nature of time passing. The slow meditative process of making allows her time to think deeply, to reflect, to remember.
Photographs: Niki Chandler/Andrew Wilkinson