Nicki McCubbing is interested in appropriation and creating fiction out of reality. Using ‘low culture’ objects bought online, from cheap shops, car boot sales, joke shops, as well as found materials she creates unsettling yet familiar sculptures and installation, referencing pop culture, memories and ‘Britishness’.

Appealing to children as well as adults, humour and playfulness are used to mask a dark underbelly in her work. The materials used also reflect this; cheap brightly coloured cheery objects that are bought or found in poor, often troubled areas in Liverpool and across Britain.

Nicki has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, including shows in all Liverpool Biennials, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Stavanger, Berlin, and Reykjavik and is now based at the Bluecoat Studios in Liverpool.