Artist
Nichola Irvine
Artist
Artist Bio
Nichola Irvine is a freelance illustrator and 2d animator based in Belfast. Her work is a mix of traditional and digital and her aesthetic focuses on non-conventional canons of beauty; ugly art and colourful, quirky and often textural shapes. She likes to illustrate heavy subjects that are important to her but in a fresh, uplifting way. Her focus is to make art that is accessible to all and make a difference with her work.
Artwork Description
‘Anything you can do, I can do bleeding’ were bloody words a teenage girl painted upon a piece of paper for a workshop I did with Alliance for Choice. When I first heard the theme, these words were the first thing that came to mind. My illustration highlights the censorship of people with ovaries and menstruation. Illustrating something that is so normal and human, but in society and media, too taboo to speak about.
Are we conditioned to censoring ourselves to keep cis straight white males from feeling uncomfortable?
