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Creation of any type is a conversation with your soul - to offer this exchange to the world takes courage and chutzpah. 

 When she turned 50, former award winning set designer, now sculptor - @nicolaturner.art embarked on an MA in fine art. She told me, “It was a quite an intense personal journey. I would always try to work intuitively, from my gut and often I was surprised by the things revealed.”

 As @friezeofficial continues in London this week - don’t forget to visit Turner’s solo show @annelyjuda  and immerse yourself in her extraordinary work which is thrillingly alive with layers of stories - the patina of insides and materials, mined for new life. “I Tear Secrets from Your Yielding Flesh’ 
1 October – 7 November 2026
@annelyjuda  - Bond St tube Find out more online @ft_houseandhome in my story with Turner where she generously shares her work and home journey with me.
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STORYTELLING: CURATING, COLLABORATION & CONVERSATIONS
 Wednesday 21 October 2026
7.00 — 8.30pm
@form_i_c_a, Unit 5 Lymore Gardens, BA2 1AQ Free tickets (register via link in bio) 
 Join us to hear curator, writer, and Head of Exhibitions @arnolfiniarts Gemma Brace share her passion for storytelling and starting conversations through contemporary art, including curating for Bristol’s Arnolfini, an international centre for contemporary art. The talk will cover her experiences of collaborating with contemporary artists, creating publications, and programming for different organisations.  Gemma Brace is Head of Exhibitions at Arnolfini and a freelance writer and curator. Recent projects include Jonathan Baldock: Held (2026); Emma Talbot: Everything is Energy; Dana Awartani: Standing by the ruins (2025); Sahara Longe: The Other Side of the Mountain (2025); Elias Sime: Eregata እርጋታ, Threads: ‘Breathing stories into materials’ (2023); Garry Fabian Miller: Adore (2023); Bharti Kher: The Body is a Place (2022); Forest: Wake this Ground (2022); Donna Huanca: CUEVA DE COPAL (2022); Paula Rego: Subversive Stories (2022); Frank Bowling: Land of Many Waters (2021); Chantal Joffe: From Esme – with Love and Squalor (2020); and Franko B: The Body is Not Here (2019). She is a prior recipient of a Paul Mellon Curatorial Research Support Grant, the Art Fund’s Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant and an Arvon and Visual Arts South West Critical Writing for the Visual Arts Award.  Hosted by Bath Art Depot at FORM-ICA (@form_i_c_a) Photo: Jonathan Baldock: Held, exhibition installation, 2026. Courtesy Arnolfini, photo by Dan Weill.
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Out in todays @ft_houseandhome Sculptor @nicolaturner.art at her Georgian home in Bath, which she shares with her husband Alf Coles, Professor of Maths Education at the University of Bristol. Her design aesthetic, honed over years, designing sets for, among others, the Royal Opera House, the RSC, San Francisco Opera and inside her own litany of homes, is the perfect metaphor for her art, which explores the essence of embedded memory discovered in buildings, materials and furniture. Her extraordinary sculptures, examine the meaning and structure of memory, and repressed stories, they are often black, fat, vast tendrils, that can be ten-metres high or more, resembling tentacle-like limbs. Spilling from windows, cascading across buildings...her current show just opened @annelyjuda and without doubt needs to be seen - a black organism demanding your attention as soon as you exit Bond St tube - a beautiful raw anomalous manifestation crawling down a building in Hanover Square...crafted from waste materials - raw, untreated wool or horsehair from old furniture, (she was recently gifted a 10ft pile of ancient, stained horsehair mattresses from @rabycastleofficial ) Her home is a beautiful ode to this constant journey of story and embedded memory, she relishes the patina of ancient Bath stone walls, wrapping each room in her 1790 house in muted earthy tones inspired entirely from the flesh of a fig. Cabinets and furniture are exchanged with an openminded perspective from her studios, @form_i_c_a a community space and collection of artists’ studios which she opened several years ago, and her artworks, legs from tables, tops removed and used in the kitchen or in a sculpture. “I work instinctively,” she says. Her home is beautiful and was perfectly captured by the very talented @imogen__rosemary 📸 Read more in @ft_weekend or online @ft_houseandhome Nicola Turner: ‘I Tear Secrets from Your Yielding Flesh’ @annelyjuda London 1 October – 7 November 2026 ***
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STORYTELLING: CURATING, COLLABORATION & CONVERSATIONS
 Wednesday 21 October 2026
7.00 — 8.30pm
@form_i_c_a, Unit 5 Lymore Gardens, BA2 1AQ Free tickets (register via link in bio) 
 Join us to hear curator, writer, and Head of Exhibitions @arnolfiniarts Gemma Brace share her passion for storytelling and starting conversations through contemporary art, including curating for Bristol's Arnolfini, an international centre for contemporary art. The talk will cover her experiences of collaborating with contemporary artists, creating publications, and programming for different organisations.  Gemma Brace is Head of Exhibitions at Arnolfini and a freelance writer and curator. Recent projects include Jonathan Baldock: Held (2026); Emma Talbot: Everything is Energy; Dana Awartani: Standing by the ruins (2025); Sahara Longe: The Other Side of the Mountain (2025); Elias Sime: Eregata እርጋታ, Threads: ‘Breathing stories into materials’ (2023); Garry Fabian Miller: Adore (2023); Bharti Kher: The Body is a Place (2022); Forest: Wake this Ground (2022); Donna Huanca: CUEVA DE COPAL (2022); Paula Rego: Subversive Stories (2022); Frank Bowling: Land of Many Waters (2021); Chantal Joffe: From Esme – with Love and Squalor (2020); and Franko B: The Body is Not Here (2019). She is a prior recipient of a Paul Mellon Curatorial Research Support Grant, the Art Fund’s Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant and an Arvon and Visual Arts South West Critical Writing for the Visual Arts Award.  Hosted by Bath Art Depot at FORM-ICA (@form_i_c_a) Photo: Jonathan Baldock: Held, exhibition installation, 2026. Courtesy Arnolfini, photo by Dan Weill.
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Opening tomorrow night (17 September, 5-8pm) at Bath Spa’s Locksbrook Campus. At 6pm BAD’s @kelseycruzmartin is hosting a panel discussion with Jeff Scherer, Ian Parkes, and @matthewjpage (BAD). More info below: 50 years of Locksbrook, and we’re celebrating all year.  In 2026, the iconic Locksbrook building turns 50–originally designed by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw as Herman Miller’s “Action Factory,” now home to Bath School of Creative and Cultural Arts and Bath School of Design at Bath Spa University.  To mark this milestone, we’re launching a year-long programme digging into the building’s story—from Grimshaw’s original design ethos, to the furniture made on the factory floor, to its transformation into a university, to the culture of design and making that still lives here today. Expect archival research, new creative commissions, public events and community projects.  New artwork commission by @kelseycruzmartin 
Heritage Open Days 
Exhibition Open Call 
Events throughout the year — more to be announced  Save the dates: 
* Launch event: 17 Sept, 5–8pm — tours, talks, exhibition opening 
* Exhibition: 18 Sept–9 Oct, Michael Pennie Gallery 
* Heritage Open Day: 19 Sept, 11am–4pm — tours + creative workshop  Poster design by @studio_______ac. #Locksbrook50 #BathSpaUni
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In 2023 I founded @form_i_c_a which is an old industrial unit now housing 7 artist studios and a versatile communal space in Bath, UK. ✨ While documenting my work recently @maxwellattenborough captured a few shots of my studio there and the shared communal area. I love this space and it’s an honour to work alongside the 6 other artists at form-ica. The last image shows work packed up getting ready for my solo exhibition with @annelyjuda opening 16 Hanover Square, London 1-10-26. Thanks @catattaway for help with all the wrapping. 🎁 #artistledspace #artiststudios #arthub #independentcollectiveofartists #artstudio
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As an artist who works with horsehair I am deeply grateful to @rabycastleofficial for letting me work with their old mattresses that were no longer in use. The mattresses were fully recorded, documented and samples kept for future study before I was able to collect them. We also had to confirm the van could get through the Raby Castle portcullis! Horsehair is one of my favorite materials to use. It is rich with history and I am fascinated by the secrets that are embedded in the material. Mattresses are present at major points in our lives. At conception, birth and death and the many nights in between. I have been using horsehair in my work since 2019 and some of you might have seen it in my work The Meddling Fiend @royalacademyarts in 2024 or Echoed Ecstacy at Coker Court as part of @odartsfest 2023. My next installation using horsehair will be on the façade of 16 Hanover Square, London as part of my solo exhibition @annelyjuda ‘I tear Secrets from your Yielding Flesh’ which opens on October 1st. Time’s Scythe @yspsculpture in the Chapel is on view till the Autumn. In fact it was the day after opening there that I drove an hours north to Raby Castle to meet Lady Barnard and to be shown the room of mattresses! Thank you. I look forward to start using these in my work. ✨ 📷 Thanks to @maxwellattenborough Portcullis @rabycastleofficial Dance Macabre @artbasel Tyntesfield @tyntesfieldnt Echoed Ecstasy at Coker Court @odartsfest with @clarewhistler Meddling Fiend @royalacademyarts The Uninvited Guest from the Unremembered Past @wellsartcontemporary #horsehair #artmaterial #sculpture #siteresponsiveinstallation #upcycling
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Huge thanks to @maxwellattenborough for capturing shots of my studio last week and taking photos of my latest work as I prepare for my solo exhibition ‘I Tear Secrets from your Yielding Flesh’ that opens 1.10.2026 @annelyjuda London. Will share more shortly. @form_i_c_a #soloexhibition #workinprogress #artstudıo #newwork #artistledspace
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@nicolaturner.art is an artist based in Bath, England who uses bizarre, ecological and sustainable materials like horse hair and royal mattresses to illustrate the interstitial space between the doom of death and the vitality of renewal. You can find her darkly ethereal work @annelyjuda @form_i_c_a @royal_sculptors #artcritique #artcriticism #sculpture_art
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Thank you to everyone who came to the Yard Party and Open Studios at @form_i_c_a, @outline__studios and @perfectspacecarpentry! During the event Bath Art Depot raised over £1500, which will go towards developing a programme of events and talks—bringing people together, building community, and fostering new connections and new possibilities. Thank you to those who bought raffle tickets and donated prizes—and to those who helped drink the bar dry…! @annagillespiesculpture @nicolaturner.art @simonperiton @matthewjpage @natashakiddartist @kelseycruzmartin @cathparsonage @zoewoolley6 @libbydillon.painter @perfectspacecarpentry @form_i_c_a @bathartdepot @outline__studios @vherbalkitchen
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[1] Bridge, 2026. Coloured paper, 59.4 × 84.1 cm. [2] Trap, 2026. Coloured paper, 59.4 × 84.1 cm. [3] Knock, 2026. Coloured paper, 59.4 × 84.1 cm. These three drawings are pinned up in my studio @form_i_c_a. The studios are open this afternoon 1–5pm — unfortunately I’m not there, but the door is open!
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Tonight! Looking forward to seeing you! Yard Party + Open Studios Friday 26 June 5–10pm Open Studios (@form_i_c_a) Saturday 27 June 1–5pm The Lymore Gardens Yard Party is back. Join us for open studios at @form_i_c_a, @outline__studios and @perfectspacecarpentry; and pizza by @vherbalkitchen in the yard. @bathartdepot will be running the bar and hosting a raffle to fundraise for community events and projects. Free entry, all welcome! 📍Lymore Gardens, Bath, BA2 1AQ On street parking only. Short walk from Oldfield Park train station. @annagillespiesculpture @nicolaturner.art @simonperiton @matthewjpage @natashakiddartist @kelseycruzmartin @cathparsonage @zoewoolley6 @libbydillon.painter @perfectspacecarpentry @form_i_c_a @bathartdepot @outline__studios During this year’s Yard Party and Open Studios, BAD will be running a raffle to support us in developing a programme of events and talks—bringing people together, building community, and fostering new connections and new possibilities. 🎟️ Purchase a ticket (£4 each or 3 for £10) during the Yard Party (Friday 26 June, 5–10pm) or Open Studios (Saturday 27 June, 1–5pm) or online via Zeffy (link in bio) any time before 5pm on Tuesday 30 June.  Prizes, generous contributed by businesses, organisations and artists in the city: * Afternoon tea voucher for 2 people including a glass of champagne, courtesy of @royalcrescentbath * Adult entry tickets, courtesy of @holburnemuseumbath * Artist studio visit with Amy Stephens, courtesy of @amystephensstudio * A place on 10 week film class, courtesy of Philip Raby * 2 tickets to Bath Film Festival, courtesy of @FilmBath * Artworks ranging from print to sculpture to painting generously donated by local artists Angel Greenham (@Angel_greenham), Alex le May (@Alex_le_makes), Brian Gibson (@Briangbath), Amy Stephens (@amystephensstudio), Valentina Dorronsoro (@ValentinaDorronsoro), Morgan Jeffries (@mog_jef) * ‘The House Rules’ by Patrick Williams, courtesy of @berdoulat_interior_design * Tea selection, courtesy of @nuditea * Coffee selection, courtesy of @colonnacoffee * Hot chocolate and mug, courtesy of @harthchocolate * Beer selection, courtesy of @electricbearbre Poster for Yard Party
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