Chelsea Hickman

Graduate Certificate of Visual Art

Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing is a textile installation consisting of multiple banners hung, overlapping each other, against the gallery wall.

I have used waste fabric primarily sourced from landfill to compile a frantic display of layered messaging, calls-to-action, and contemplations. These artefacts are part of a larger collection of banners – an ongoing project reflecting on protest, spectacle, and information culture.

The installation displays the works as if they were in storage – an abject location for banners designed for public settings – actively frustrating the viewer’s engagement. Influenced by working in the fashion industry, I repurpose post-consumer garments as an act of fashion necromancy and through the use of handmade processes. Nothing … is an act of defiance to mass production and industrial capitalism.