Photos by Nicola Crowson.

An Architect, teacher and maker, Nicola explores textile mappings of place and how these relate to architecture. She specialises the representation of architecture through the themes of narrative and drawing.

Nicola stitches and draws maps narratives of place to recreate textural landscapes. The work is made of an accumulation of drawings, textiles and photographs layered to take advantage of the translucency and texture of the materials. Stitch forms an integral part to the surface and story of the work. The content shifts scale, abstracts and are not designed to be static.

The resultant work is varied and always place specific and gives a textural impression of place.

email: nicola.crowson@port.ac.uk

Nicola run a Masters studio at Portsmouth School of Architecture (University of Portsmouth) which explores the making and materiality of spatial practice. It considers the role of the architect as a physical novelist who weaves together past, present and future. 

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