Welcome to NickyBird.com
Nicky Bird is an artist whose work investigates the contemporary relevance of found photographs, and hidden histories of specific sites, investigating how they remain resonant. She has explored this through photography, bookworks, the Internet and New Media. In varying ways she incorporates new photography with oral histories, genealogy, and collaborations with people who have a significant connection to the original site, archive or artefact. Tracing Echoes (2001) is one example in which both the home of Julia Margaret Cameron and the Herschel Collection (held at the National Media Museum) were pivotal. Go to Bookworks for more on Tracing Echoes. Other examples, such as Question for Seller (2006) are also featured in Bookworks with further information being provided in Projects on art process and exhibition. In this section, see how the current project Beneath the Surface / Hidden Place (2007-09) continues to develop her concerns.