Nia Wilson

Based in Brooklyn, New York, mixed media artist Nia Winslow draws on her proclivity for fashion and inspirations from black artists such as Romare Bearden, Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold and Jacob Lawrence to illustrate the colourful essences of black figures in each of her compositions. Using paper as her preferred material, Nia combines the complexities of different textures, cuttings and clippings to illuminate figures, moods and stories. Vibrant hues and tints are used to convey the striking spirit every black life possesses.

She says, “I use my work to emulate real-life experiences as it pertains to black life. Mundane or complex, each piece is created to capture the essence of life through the lenses of someone who experiences it. As no reality is the same, each work is created using several different pieces of paper, fabric, texture, etc., to create a completed composition. Each piece of material is used to represent a distinct emotion, background, and way of life. Each collection of clippings is used to produce a whole creation; therefore, I consider each work a piece of a whole. The ‘whole’ represents my entire body of work – a conglomeration of designs used to depict separate, but sometimes similar, black existences.”

Nia’s work is a part of private collections across the US and she has exhibited in group exhibitions in New York.