Ollie Nancarrow

Ollie Nancarrow’s work is concerned with the relationship that exists between artworks and humans – focusing on how both parties serve and interact with one another. Using art as a mechanism for unearthing the connections and memories that exist between objects, space, and people – often joyous and welcome, yet sometimes malevolent and destructive. Ollie often produces work in response to the objects and spaces that surround him as an artist – whereby the work starts to converse with itself, creating paradoxes or moments of absurdity and surrealism. More recently, Ollie has drawn upon his own family’s history and significant paraphernalia to analyse and understand familial breakdown.  

Alongside Ollie’s work with objects and their relationships to us, he is also interested in the Relational Aesthetic: whereby human relations and their social context is central to how and why the artwork manifests into the world. A recent project of Ollie’s, ‘1111 cans of baked beans’, saw all £300 of his university materials budget spent on cans of baked beans to make public sculptures from – eventually being donated to three food banks across Leicester. Catalysing many important conversations over the artists’ and art institutions’ responsibilities within society and their local community.  

Instagram: @ollienancarrow

UKNA Projects:

Taking Place: Derby New Artist Collective #2