NIKOLA WOJEWODA

NIKOLA WOJEWODA I Collage / Mixed Media Artist (Hamilton, ON.)

Nikola is a Hamilton based multi-disciplinary artist who has exhibited collage, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture in clay, bronze, stone, plaster, mixed media assemblage and installation. She’s made experimental short films and has designed sets for dance and theatre.

Her work, found in private and corporate collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank, has been reviewed in a variety of local publications, C Magazine, and the Globe and Mail. She has received Ontario Arts Council Grants, local awards, and has been a juror for Public Art projects and group exhibitions. She is a member of local guilds, regional and artist-run galleries.

Nikola has taught courses in painting, sculpture, ceramics, and is 2024/25 Mentor for the Hamilton and Region Potters Guild, Artistic Development Mentorship Program.

Her practice includes collage, mixed media painting and drawing, illustrated ceramics, and clay sculptures that incorporate found objects. Working in discrete series, she often combines two and three-dimensional work to tell an allegorical story. Her detailed and process-oriented art investigates the intersections of icon, symbol and pattern, and the bridges between craft and fine art.

ARTIST STATEMENT  - My process is like storytelling. I’m drawn to metaphors where layered meaning lies. Through personally constructed archetypes I explore what it is to be human, and what is at stake in these complex times we live in. Symbols provide a rich source from which to explore the human condition. Psychological, spiritual, social and political dimensions are expressed in poetic form. My process is slow, like a traveler walking in the deep woods picking up one bread crumb after another, concepts and imagery are an accumulation of linked impulses, responses, discoveries and research. Guided by the quiet part of my mind that is more perceptive than I am, words and thought-fragments become a stream of consciousness. I shuffle them, make them brush up against each other, watch their jagged edges attach. They become the gestalt that I then work to unravel. I’m not in a hurry, I like to play, and I know that soon I will be telling myself another story about the inner and outer world, steadfastly building my own folklore.

2025 SPRING EVENT 

 

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111 Charles St., Hamilton, ON., CANADA

ADVANCE PREVIEW + SALE OF ARTWORK I April 20th at 8PM EST

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    • OPEN HOUSE I  Saturday May 3, 2025 I 10AM- 4PM 

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