Nita Rao
Nita Rao is a visual artist known for her work with sustainable and waste materials, inspired by the cycles of decay and renewal of, as well as climate emergency. She is the lead artist on the Up To The Beacon Sculpture Trail, which emphasises the beauty of nature and the importance of climate change.
Nita studied Fine Art Sculpture at Loughborough College of Art, exhibiting her degree show at the Generator Gallery in 1991. Since then she has travelled extensively in Asia, and exhibited in group and solo shows nationally and locally. She exhibited annually with ArtSpace Loughborough at the Generator Gallery from 1998 to 2007
Selected Works
Forest Path - Within the Roots, 2026
as part of Our Very Fabric
This installation has now evolved over many years, starting in 1997 after time travelling in India.
Using the colours of India with vibrant turban material, faded now over the years. A forest of colour where different realities are possible.
My way of working involves symbolic thought processes, the symbols evolve and join to create new meaning. Revisiting ‘Forest Path’ for ‘Our Very Fabric’ has given me the opportunity to combine my original ideas with where I am now. The result has become even more of a journey of our very being with the combination of outer realities alongside inner realities.
Finding the time for wrapping with colour and slow sewing, like willow weaving has given time for slowing down. This in turn giving time for reflection, to process thoughts and that sense of mending as an act of healing. Symbolically untangling ideas and thoughts, as rushing causes only tangles.
Then and now our world appears to be chaotic and out of control, especially in contrast to being closer to nature and living in the present in India, and more recently creating work in nature. I try to convey both these realities.
I think of my work as poetry, an exploration into the unknown. Maybe the spheres are symbolic of seeds and new beginnings, or our soul contained within the fabric of our body. I don’t know yet.
