Nadya Wilson @cloudiernadya fuses her poetry with the material potential found in the bodily world of sculpture. She seeks to give these poems their own space – their own bodies – allowing these poems to take up room rather than being flat print on a page. In Bread Bodies, Nadya investigates the liminal limits of language, and the flavourful context a body can give to a poem. Through material, gesture, taste, these words engage the senses of the viewer, lifting the poetry from the page and snatching it from the air. The poem appeals to your hunger, with a body that begs to be tasted and consumed. These works invite us to contemplate the lifespan of the spoken word, its death, instant. In giving these poems bodies, we reflect on what it means for language to possess a body of bread rather than live as a fleeting vibration launched through the air.
Nadya’s fascination with the edible word is concerned with humanity. Through homo-sapien evolution, the ability to cook and communicate have been the leading factors in our unparalleled evolutionary development. The human condition is to have an insatiable appetite. The human body demands food and language. In Bread Bodies language is food.
Text by Raphael Atkins @raphatkinsartist
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at Loupe Creative Space for the opening and exhibition of Bread Bodies by @cloudiernadya Nadya Wilson. 🥖✨
We’re grateful to Nadya for sharing such a thoughtful body of work with our community, and to everyone who came along to engage, connect, and celebrate. The conversations and energy you brought into the space made the exhibition very special.
Here are a few moments from the opening night — thank you for being part of it!
📸 Images from the exhibition opening
Meet the artist from ‘Bread Bodies’ exhibition: Nadya Wilson @cloudiernadya is an emerging artist based in Meanjin with a bias for text-based work. Invigorated by the potential of poetry and material association, much of her work investigates the relationships between bodies and language, as well as the ephemeral qualities that might evoke reflection, motion or sensation. Recently leaning into the realm of the edible, she hopes that you may consider how words come from and return to the body.
Our upcoming exhibition ‘Bread Bodies’ by Nadya Wilson @cloudiernadya is opening on Friday 5th September, 6pm. Come join us 🥨
Where: Loupe Creative Space, 1/37 Ethel Street, Yeerongpilly
Exhibition continues on 6th & 7th September (Timing TBC)
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Combine until a dough begins to form, until it pulls away from the sides of the bowl, pulls itself from between your fingers. Knead it, stretch it, over and over and into itself, until the light shines through the skin before it tears. It wants to be between your hands for longer than you think. Press into it softly. Notice how - like the flesh of yourself - it will slowly spring back. It breathes itself round. Breathes a little differently than you do. But it already knows the shape of your mouth, the shape of an inhale. What is the difference between an exhale and a name? Call it quiet, call it hungry, call it what it asks. It asks to be understood, to be met at the mouth.
‘Bread Bodies’ looks at the materiality of language and the influence of the written word upon the viewer. Besides the content of the words, the poem is reframed by the edible context of the material form, offering an alternative mode of consumption.
NEW ARTISTS! Get 'em while they're hot!
Only 3 weeks left until our opening event, its heating up in the Sage offices (the tunnel system under Kangaroo Point Cliffs) as we collect the final artworks and start prepping the gallery space🔥
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📣 Our next Lens Mingle event is on Thursday 3rd April, 6pm! Join us for a social night and learn about the creative practices of Ross Booker @rossbooker Nadya Wilson @cloudiernadya and Rhianna Phillips @rhiannajphillips 💫
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Image 2: ‘Reflection 4’, Ross Booker
Image 3: portrait of Ross Booker
Image 4: ‘I have dreamt of light like this’ Nadya Wilson
Image 5: portrait of Nadya Wilson
Image 6: ‘Faded’, Rhianna Phillips
Image 7: portrait of Rhianna Phillips
Introducing one of our featured object makers for “Alchemy” Nadya Wilson!
“Alchemy” features 9 artists working across mark making, photography, jewellery and performance. Each artist has worked in pairs to respond the exhibition’s title theme.
Opening event on the 26th of July, 6pm @landstreetgallery
Featuring a live performance from @meowbeetle
Tickets available in bio: @sage.initiative
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Installing the Jewellery & Small Objects graduate exhibition im/material in the Project Gallery.
Join us on Thursday 26 October for the opening!
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𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥, 2023, copper and brass wire
first photo by @xmaistagramx
if you like this poem, come see more like it at my grad show at QCA, october 26th!
this poem was pivotal to my practice this year. really and truly granting the poem agency over its own words and its own physical body, i feel like i am constantly realising where i am trying to control it, then having to step back and trust that the poem knows what is best for itself, and lean into that. lots and lots and lots of learning patience and trust this year
