Asia Nowicki East Sussex, United Kingdom

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I am a contemporary sculptor based between Brighton and London, working with constructed and fabricated forms that explore symbolic tension, material transformation, and the politics of surface. My practice focuses on the potential of everyday or decorative objects to carry layered emotional, psychological, and cultural meaning. Through methods such as lampworking, gloss treatments, and latex cast

I am a neurodivergent sculptor based between Brighton and London, working across a materially focused practice that explores trauma, containment, and emotional intensity through a lens of play, exaggeration, and sensory engagement. Making is, for me, both a form of communication and a sensory outlet—a way of externalising complex inner states and processing fragmented or overwhelming experience. My sculptures aim to hold contradiction: seductive yet unsettling, hypercontrolled yet on the verge of collapse.

A central aspect of my practice is the merging of glass and resin. I am interested in how these materials—each with their own symbolic and tactile associations—can be fused to the point where they appear indistinguishable. This blending becomes a metaphor for blurred emotional boundaries and unstable perceptions, while the resulting surfaces—sticky, glossy, or synthetic—offer both containment and release. The visual confusion between fragility and artifice is intentional, echoing the slipperiness of memory, emotion, and self-presentation.

While glass and resin form the core of my material language, I regularly incorporate latex, foam, plastics, and other fabricated elements. These materials allow me to build compositions that feel overripe, precarious, and theatrical—deliberately heightened in tone and texture. I embrace excess and surface as conceptual strategies, using humour, absurdity, and tactile pleasure to approach difficult emotional material without flattening its complexity.

Play, in my work, is not lightness but a method—an alternative logic that opens space for repair, inquiry, and resistance. I explore the ways that neurodivergent perception can generate its own forms of understanding, structure, and expression. Rather than explaining or translating these experiences, I create work that holds them in their full ambiguity.

Alongside my solo practice, I am a co-founder of Brighton Women Artists, a collaborative platform supporting women artists through peer dialogue, exhibitions, and mutual visibility. This initiative runs in parallel with my studio work, offering a communal counterbalance to the more internal, solitary aspects of my practice.

Ultimately, I aim to create sculptural environments that are sensorially rich and emotionally resonant—objects that invite viewers into a space of tension, attraction, and strangeness, where form and feeling remain deliberately unresolved.

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Volcanism , Kiln cast glass, expanding foam, gold leaf, resin, 2025

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Asia Nowicki East Sussex, United Kingdom

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