Sabi Nicholson

Dislocations ii

Sabi Nicholson’s installation responds to the ecological crisis at Lough Neagh. Drawing on archival UTV footage alongside their own collected video materials, Nicholson projects warped imagery through a vessel holding contaminated lough water, which leaks onto unexposed paper below. Meanwhile, an old radio transmits field recordings collected from Lough Neagh and archival news clips. 

Lumen prints made using detritus found at the polluted sites are displayed on mounts of industrial chipboard. Sound, water and image spill into the gallery, reflecting on environmental degradation and position the lough as a haunted and unstable landscape.

The full news stories and Swings and Roundabouts are gathered in this collection for you to explore. Visit CCA before it closes on the14th March 2026 to see the exhibition. 

ABOUT

Sabi Nicholson is an interdisciplinary artist hitchhiking the landscapes of image, sound and text. Their work pulls at the seams of incorporeal forces that shape our world via surreal sensory realms of droning music, field recordings, and slow, forensic imagery. They undertake a layered research process that combines physical and digital artefacts, experiences, and meanderings - in doing so uncovering unexpected cross-discipline connections. In other words, Sabi smudges borders as a matter of principle.

They graduated from The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) with a BA in Photography in the summer of 2023, and their work has been shown at Surface Gallery (Nottingham, EN), EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam, NL), the Grey Space in the Middle (The Hague, NL) and the Ulster Museum (Belfast, NI). They currently host and curate the experimental music show SUBSTRATA on Dublin Digital Radio.