Exploring the concepts of textile, landscape, and the space in which they meet, Everyday Wear is a site-specific work that adorns fixed structures and the empty space between them. The piece invites the viewer to experience a world transformed by synthetic colours and consider how light and colour affect the experience of space and place. When standing inside the work and looking outwards, the structure changes the outside and inside environments. The work is a canopy, a blanket, a layer of protection, a sanctuary, emphasised by the stained-glass cathedral quality. It encourages the viewer to look at and experience their space, place, and themselves through new eyes.

Karla Nixon is a Durban-based artist working predominantly with paper through hand-cutting, tearing and sculpting. She explores themes of space and place across painting, sculpture, mixed media, collage, video and installation.

Nixon completed her MFA cum laude at Durban University of Technology (2017) and undertook a residency in Bremen, Germany (2017-18). She has been a finalist at Sasol and ABSA, with her work featured in private collections worldwide and in public collections, including at the Durban Art Gallery and The National Art Bank.

Her most recent solo exhibition was ‘Underfoot’ (2022) at Lizamore, Johannesburg.