Nowhere to go
(2022)

• Sheila HICKS

For more than seven decades, Paris-based, American artist Sheila Hicks has worked with textiles to challenge traditional boundaries between art forms. She studied painting with Bauhaus artist and designer Josef Albers at Yale University, and gained insight into pre-Columbian weaving with art historian George Kubler. Hicks has lived and worked in Chile, Mexico, South Africa, India, Morocco, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Informed by these extensive periods of time – travelling, living and working around the world – her depth of knowledge of materials and form is communicated through knotted, weaved and tied sculptural forms.

Piled high, the coloured boulders of Nowhere to go demonstrate Hicks’s capacity to change the experience of a space through large-scale, site-specific sculpture. Sitting in opposition to the hard surfaces of the surrounding architecture, Nowhere to go communicates Hicks’s attention to abstraction, colour theory and painterly gesture.