Nancy Green - Big Useless Inflatable Crap

Crap drawer

Everyone has a crap drawer, a useless location where items go to be forgotten, a space which holds the most practical and most worthless objects. From small futile items that get hidden away to oversized hopeless junk which stuffs a space. Nancy started by selecting objects from her own crap drawer. These ranged from small trinkets to larger, more cumbersome items and personal effects. What binds them is their un-categorisable nature: they don’t belong in the kitchen, or the bathroom, or the workshop, so they end up together in this absurd salad.

The crap drawer decontextualises items and objects, revealing new perspectives and curiosity within everyday material life. By transforming these objects into oversized inflatable sculptures, Nancy uses her craft techniques of pattern making and sewing to blow up these pieces into visually striking and playful forms.

About Nancy Green

Nancy Green is a British artist currently based in The Netherlands. Her work can be seen as a constant inquiry into her own anatomy as individual and universal.

Exploring connections between the self, as the body, and the materials and crafts which have evolved to be in its orbit. Works cover both the material and the unspoken elements of material and of the form. Sculpting through textiles, casting and digital media are ways into this connection and mapping between the unknown configurations of the body. Nancy worked as a professional seamstress for production and fashion companies.