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Nickola Pottinger's first museum publication highlights recent sculptural work inspired by her Jamaican ancestry
Nickola Pottinger’s (b. 1986, Kingston, Jamaica) practice spans drawing, collage, and sculpture. Her objects often appear in the round, on the wall, or sometimes within tableaux. She refers to her sculptural works as “duppies” (Jamaican patois for ghosts) in reverence to her Jamaican ancestry and the West Indian community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn where she was raised and still resides today. Composed out of recovered heirlooms, excavated and recycled materials, Pottinger creates pigmented paper pulp from family documents, past artworks, and rubble using a handheld kitchen mixer. Her titles often reference their origins, places, memories, and adages specific to Jamaica. Sliding between figure and object, with references to her body, as maker and matter, her “duppies” resemble fantastical presences, spiritual talisman, and anthropomorphized furniture, with narratives fueled by dreams, actuality, and something in-between.
28 pages, fully illustrated
Soft cover
Featuring an essay by Amy Smith-Stewart, Diana Bowes Chief Curator
ISBN: 978-1-951416-15-7
Catalogue Designer: Gretchen Kraus
Production Manager: Caitlin Monachino
Copy Editor: Katie Brennan
Printer: GHP, West Haven, CT
Published by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
