Nicola Roos

Nicola Roos is a South African artist who makes life-size figurative sculptural installations from recycled rubber tyre tubing. She trained at the Michaelis School of Fine Art and began working in this medium in 2015. Her work examines the origins of civilization and society, and the politics of national identity, collective memory and belonging in the postcolonial world. She has been a resident at the Cape Town Art Residency and is represented by Simchowitz.