Nikki Katrina Carroll & Matthew Young Based in Newcastle upon Tyne & London
JAWBONE JAWBONE is a collaborative practice formed in 2015 by artists Nikki Katrina Carroll (b.1994) and Matthew Young (b.1993).
Their works sway between figuration and abstraction flecked with digital motifs. Working largely in a sculptural discipline, there is an objective to construct vibrant and elastic material languages. Jawbone Jawbone’s conceptual considerations can be found in their approach to material as elements to build analogies of the human body and the human mind with its interpretations of the world. A world that extends to the significance of dreams in which our abilities detach from physical possibilities and can in a second collide with delimited gestures.
Specifically addressing desire, companionship and communication Jawbone Jawbone place a life on their work that has a slightly uncertain but absorbing existence. Works sit silently observing in a rudimentary manner. And we stand watching them.
Education
2013-2016 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
2015 Erasmus Exchange Programme, Academie Minerva, Groningen, Netherlands
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Passing Between Clouds and Under Rocks Four/Four, Primary, Nottingham
2017
Deep Down the Ear Canal Slugtown, Newcastle upon Tyne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Scramble Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough
2019
Pick n Mix Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough
Manner of Flying System Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Multipack Bunker Gallery, Manchester
Summer Will Have Its Flies Subsidiary Projects, London
2018
When the clouds come in CRATE, Margate
FULLY AWAKE The Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
Open Contemporary Young Artist Award 2018 The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne
Stockton Contemporary Stockton-on-Tees
Splinter Graduate Studios Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne
Hard Graft GRAFT, Lancaster
Bitter/Sweet Assembly House, Leeds
Now Another Procedure Is To Run Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2017
I Can't Remember The Last Time I Used Cardamom TESTT Space, Durham
Experimental Film Festival, Middlesbrough
Les Boîtes Suede Gallery w/ Slugtown, Edinburgh
Dishwasher Safe System Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Cultivate Presents: Something Blue, online exhibition
Bish, Bash, Bosh by We The North, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor Cheeseburn Grange, Stamfordham
Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Middlesbrough
ebc013 East Bristol Contemporary, Trinity Centre, Bristol
Part 1: Hand In Double Yolk, 36 Lime Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
Slowing into form: performance event Vane Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
GSN Open Studio, Graduate Studios Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne
2016
Reveal Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Hops Cotch The Holy Biscuit, Newcastle upon Tyne
INTERFUSE #2 The Pattern Shop, Hoults Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne
PINK Colour Studio Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne
2015
ATTEMPT The Stand Comedy Club, Newcastle upon Tyne
hred Academie Minerva, Groningen, Netherlands
M O U T H F U L OF EXHIBITION USVA Cultureel Studenten Centrum, Groningen, Netherlands
March Expo Academie Minerva, Groningen, Netherlands
Projects
2017
Costume design for Melva A Mortal Fools production, Prudhoe
Freedom City 2017 MLK1967 Wunderbar & Jeremy Deller, Newcastle upon Tyne
2016
performers in A Bodyssey Odyssey: Ultimate Climax, Pester and Rossi, Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne
Re:Creation Featherstone Castle, Haltwhistle, Northumberland
THIS IS NOT A WORKSHOP NONSENSE / NEW SENSE The Scarborough Winter School 2016, Yorkshire Coast College & Crescent Arts, Scarborough
performers in Iris, Sarah Kate Wilson, Figure Three, Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne
Artist Residency
Feb 2018 Now Another Procedure Is To Run Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Award
2016
John Crisp Prize for Innovative Work
Shortlisted Awards
2017
The Gillian Dickinson North East Young Sculptor of the Year Award, Cheeseburn
2016
Alexander McQueen Scholarship, Sarabande Foundation
Publications/other
2018
BALTIC Self-Publishing Artists' Market
2017
Artist As Curator Group Show, Audio Podcast
Cultivate Presents: Something Blue
ebc013 East Bristol Contemporary, Trinity Centre, Bristol
studio visit series mmmilk collective
2016
a-n, jawbone jawbone
Northumbria University Fine Art Degree Show catalogue - various features