Abigail Norris
Residency: December 2022 - February 2023
Exhibition: 2 March - 4 April 2023
Continuing its collaboration with the Royal College of Art/Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Artist’s Garden will host a residency with Abigail Norris. Norris who was selected as the winner of the Graduate Award 2022 for her body of work entitled ‘In the Nightshade Garden’. During her residency, she intends to explore through making the intertwining of animal and vegetable drawing from the ancient myth of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. The myth entailed a lamb being born out of a plant and is thought to be linked to the cotton plant and its trade. She will be in residence in the Artist’s Hut from December 2022 until March 2023.
About Abigail Norris
British artist, Abigail Norris’s work centres around concepts of death, transcendence, absence, and presence; with a subplot to interrupt the habitual assumptions of everyday life. Her work moves between sculpture, film and drawings; exploring entangled relationships with self, and other living and non-living beings.