Nissa Nishikawa

Nissa Nishikawa’s multidimensional practice comprises performance, poetry, painting, sculpture and moving image. She researches and interprets traditional forms of dance, ritual and craft in ways that illuminate animistic and alchemical philosophies with an embodied and structural approach. Nishikawa often works in the open-air and studios equipped to house fire; interconnecting the layers of the arcane with the supra-sensual, the living earth and various conscious inhabitants. 

In After Nature, Nishikawa exhibits new sculptures, ceramics fired with organic materials gathered from the landscape around CLOSE. 

Nissa Nishikawa studied at Concordia University, Montreal, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London and Goldsmiths, London. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include Camden ArtsCentre, London (2024), Somerset House (2022), Nottingham Contemporary (2021) and The Wellcome Trust, London (2019).