Grief, Shame and Public Art

FREE TALK: Grief, Shame and Public Art by cross-disciplinary artist Annie Frost Nicholson

We are living in ever-polarised times, where cancel culture rages and views are firmly embedded, with limited capacities to hold multiple truths and listen to one another. How can public art in 2025 respond effectively to the complexities of the human condition, amidst global political chaos and persistent sense of loss? How can the two speak to one another?

Join cross-disciplinary artist Annie Frost Nicholson in a talk and workshop to explore the role of contemporary public art and its ever-evolving relationship to ongoing contemporary crisis and societal change.

Annie Frost Nicholson (formerly The Fandangoe Kid) is a London-based interdisciplinary artist whose work seeks to smash taboos around the complexities of the human condition. Through a curious, colourful and considered lens, Frost Nicholson’s practice looks at what it means to be alive, and her preoccupation with life, death, grief and all their permeations follows her own devastating loss of family members twelve years ago, at the age of twenty-seven.

Frost Nicholson has carefully developed her practice over the past twelve years, most recently with her Juicy Booth installation at Coal Drops Yard, for London Design Festival 2024. The Juicy Booth is a secular sensory confessional booth, which seeks to offer catharsis through sound and colour, to anyone who may need it. Currently, she is working on a public art installation exploring grief for "The Mourning After" exhibition hosted at the Design Hub Gallery, later this year, and curated by RMIT's Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth. 

When: 10-11 am, Thursday, March 27, 2025.

Venue: RMIT city campus, Megaflex 1 studio (008.04.011)

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This talk is part of Distinguished Prof. Larissa Hjorth’s Future Fellowship “The Mourning After: grief, witnessing and mobile media practices” and “The Mourning After” exhibition to be hosted at The Design Hub Gallery from 24 July to 20 Sept 2025.