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A mixed-media collage on an orange background featuring a chaotic arrangement of geometric shapes and textures. Shredded strips of colourful paper and fabric hang from the centre, layered over bold patterns and bright blocks of colour.

The beautifully tactile, organic works of Connecticut artist Evan Nesbit

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Date
23 July 2012

Evan Nesbit is a mixed media artist living and working in Connecticut, creating large-scale woven works that are alive with colour and inherently tactile. Created using a mixture of acrylic, wool and masonry foam as well as traditional patchwork techniques Nesbit’s creations cry out to be touched, bursting forth from their wall fixtures out into space; at times taking organic forms that appear richly fertile, evoking both masculine and feminine sexuality despite being composed from materials largely associated with feminine craft.

A textile sculpture of a knitted garment in muted green. A large, bulbous growth of bright orange, textured wool erupts from the centre of the fabric.
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Evan Nesbit: Weepy, Acrylic, foam and wool. 2012

A woven textile piece featuring a vibrant red central mass surrounded by a border of black and white threads. The coarse, textured weave creates a blurred, organic shape against a neutral white wall.
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Evan Nesbit: RED red, 8” x 10”, Acrylic and wool. 2012

A mixed-media collage on a pale yellow background featuring a dense arrangement of geometric shapes and patterns. Vibrant strips of fabric and shredded materials hang from the centre, layered over blocks of red, blue and green.
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Evan Nesbit: Ship Wreck, 22” x 30”, Acrylic and ink on paper. 2011

A textile collage of multi-coloured fabric strips sewn together in a chevron pattern. One side is folded back to reveal a vibrant, tie-dye fabric with circular patterns.
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Evan Nesbit: Space Blankets, 72” x 76”, Oil Cloth, Cotton, wool and polyester.

A blue and white linocut print shows a group of figures in a dense, stylized forest. One figure stands centrally, while others lounge in the foreground amidst tangled foliage and trees.
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Evan Nesbit: Our Pasteur, 52” x 68”, Acrylic and graphite on paper. 2012

A white line illustration on a dark green background. Stylised, overlapping figures are depicted in a chaotic, energetic arrangement of scribbled lines.
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Evan Nesbit: New Painting…. (after L. Cane) Lunch on the Grass

A person sits on a green carpeted floor, completely covered by a colourful patchwork quilt. Two large screen prints hang on the white walls behind them, one in green and one in blue, featuring white line drawings of figures.
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Evan Nesbit: Space Blankets

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James Cartwright

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James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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