Rust with Gasometer
Nicola Rawnsley
£280
Description
This work begins with iron rusted directly onto paper, creating a surface shaped by natural oxidation. Acrylic and enamel paint are then used to paint a gasometer against a turquoise globe, combining an industrial structure with the Earth.
The work explores the tension between human industry and natural cycles. The gasometer represents our attempts to control and manage natural resources, while the rusting process introduces a material change that is disorderly stating how pointless our desire is to possess something that ultimately exists beyond human ownership. The iron structure will go back to the earth with an engram of its time spent in human company.
Details
Medium
Acrylic, rust and enamel
Dimensions
40 W x 50 H cm
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About the artist
Nicola Rawnsley
West Yorkshire, United KingdomNicola Rawnsley
West Yorkshire, United KingdomBorn in 1970, on a Bradford estate and the first in my family to attend university. A solo exhibition in London in 1998 marked an early high point in my practice, before raising my family took precedence. I returned to art through an MA in Creative Practice, graduating in 2023.
My practice explores the human condition and our persistent desire to own, control and impose order on a world defined by change. I work with industrial artefacts, discarded tools, technical drawings, rust and other materials that carry the traces of human intervention. Through processes of making, forcing, marking and decay, I bring systems of precision and control into confrontation with natural cycles that cannot be subjugated.
Rust is central to this thinking. It becomes both material and metaphor: a slow, persistent process through which steel returns to the earth, quietly undoing the intentions and ownership once invested in it. Industrial objects may be designed, forged, used and discarded, but oxidation outlasts each stage of their human purpose.
My work sits in this tension between permanence and change, human intention and natural process. It asks what remains when the structures we create to control the world inevitably begin to disappear and nature continues, indifferent to human actions.
