There is the presence of new possibility in these combos sampled from the array of idioms used to communicate the who, the what and the where of contemporary life. The invitational push and pull present in the products of mass circulation co-mingles unpredictably with hand-made marks, less certain of their potency. Perspectives, scales, histories, times and paces energetically posture for new significance. Nicholls’ work is drawn by a kind of awkwardness, ineptitude, a desire to join this thing, with its fragile graphic grasp on reality, with that there heavier-handed tonal purchase, a process cack-handed in the face of customary practice. It craves a something-happening on the horizon which doesn’t have a name but is derived from the commerce of ideas which gather around the unexpected meeting of marks.