About
Nicola Moran is an interdisciplinary artist and a youth and social circus coordinator for Dublin Circus Project. Nicola earned her BA in Fine and Applied Art, from the University of Ulster, Belfast. She specialised as a silversmith and previously worked in New York as a metalsmith for fashion house Artemas Quibble http://www.artemas-quibble.com/ . Now, Nicola's pieces are handcrafted with love using time honoured skills. Her line has a strong yet minimal aesthetic that is socially driven. All of the jewellery pieces are made in-house and as much as she can, using only responsibly sourced and recycled materials. Nicola is registered for Fair Trade Gold.
Nicola works professionally as a freelance artist and collaborator, across many artistic platforms including sculpture, acrobatics and aerial dance. She creates bespoke shows and performs in exhibitions independently and with companies like Feathers Ensemble and Aerial Cirque, touring both nationally and internationally. Nicola's independent work involves the exploration into alchemical female surrealism, sculpture and circus. She draws and dreams of the huge potential for objects that are active at the boundary of the body. Nicola’s most recent aerial commission, is Revolve and Revolution for Brigit, Dublin City Celebrating Women Festival, 2023 https://youtube.com/shorts/4ON2rqhem1E
Her dynamic background has flavoured her creative projects. Performing with electro punk band the Periods incorporating music, aerial dance and spoken word.https://www.hotpress.com/archive/19179022.html
Nicola has also developed her artistry and passion, to nurture the body. She studied Hatha and Nidra at Arhanta yoga ashram, India. Most recently, Nicola completed a Menstruation cycle awareness and yin yoga training with Kitty Maguire and Sue Flamm. This journey has influenced her creative work and interest into durational performance art, leading her to complete the Cleaning the house workshops by Marina Abramović.
Currently Nicola works nationally and internationally as a performer, teacher and maker.