Current Works

These works treat softness not as fragility, but as a structural force. Built through wrapping, binding, and accumulation, each form holds tension between collapse and support - where care becomes an organizing system. Drawing from domestic textile traditions and conceptual systems thinking, the sculptures use repetition and constraint to shape form. Braids, loops, and layered surfaces function as both gesture and architecture - binding bodies, containing energy, and sustaining weight.

Forms of Care Sculptures

These works center on the body as a site of holding - where structure emerges through repetition, compression, and accumulated gesture. Figures are constructed rather than modeled, allowing material behavior to determine form as softness becomes structure.

soft cheesecloth sculpture of mother holding baby by margaret nicoll

Mother & Baby, 2025
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
26" x 24" x 24"

A colorful seated woman leaning over her crossed legs, textured cheesecloth stacked with the yellow at the bottom, pink in the middle, and blue on top.

Weeping Woman No. 1, 2025
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
38" x 36" x 24"

A colorful seated woman leaning over her crossed legs, textured cheesecloth stacked with the yellow at the bottom, pink in the middle, and blue on top.

Weeping Woman No. 2, 2025
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
28" x 28" x 22"

A colorful seated woman leaning over her crossed legs, textured cheesecloth stacked with the yellow at the bottom, pink in the middle, and blue on top.

Weeping Woman No. 3, 2025
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
18" x 14" x 14"

Ghosted, 2026
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
22” x 18” x 14”

Horse Study I, 2026
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
29” x 16” x 12”

Sleeping Woman, 2025
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
42" x 18" x 24"

Wall Works

Each wall work extends the same language of binding and accumulation, as they integrate surface and structure, rendering support and image inseparable.

The Deeps, 2026
Acrylic, Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
40" x 30”

Horse Study II, 2026
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
40” x 30”

A hitch cover featuring a 3D textured design of blue and pink flowers on a white background.

Exhausted, 2025
Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
28" x 40" x 6"

Pile of crumpled laundry or fabric in shades of purple, gray, and white with a small animal peeking through a hole in the center

Hibernating, 2025
Acrylic, Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
24" x 24" x 12"

A flower-shaped paper or fabric wreath in white and light blue, with an illustration of a girl holding a balloon in the center.

Let Go, 2024
Acrylic, Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
24" x 24" x 12"

A close-up of a coral-colored flower with delicate, layered petals and a hint of white on the outer edges, placed against a white background.

Womb, 2024
Acrylic, Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
16" x 16" x 8"

A light-colored scrunchie made of soft, sheer fabric placed on a plain white background.

Floating Peony, 2024
Acrylic, Cheesecloth & Steel Armature
18" x 16" x 10"