Niki is interested in creating spaces that meditate on memory and the transient nature of time. She builds on an archive of work exploring sentimentality, nostalgia, and the ephemeral: traversing the in-between, hoping to capture the intangible.

 

Putting materiality on the forefront, Niki's practice seeks to embrace serendipity and happy accidents. Recently, her interest in graphite as potentially being both a dry and wet medium, furthers her exploration into the relationship between chance and intention, and, most importantly, painting and drawing. She believes that abstraction resists the urge for immediate categorisation, hoping that her abstracted images encourage the viewer to pause and slow down amidst the unrelenting rhythm of city life.

 

Working from memory, life, sound, and feeling, Niki seeks for traces that speak to the act of remembering, and our collective longing for something to last: something to ultimately hold on to. With that, her practice strives to arouse, both within the viewer and herself: tenderness, wonder, and serenity.​​