Words & Pictures
For the project New Circus Portraits, series #3 I interviewed the subjects and wrote text panels which were exhibited with the portraits.
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Nicci Wilks
A burly little dynamo with a raucous laugh and loads of character, Nicci was born in 1970 & joined the Flying Fruit Fly Circus at age thirteen. A circus all-rounder, Nicci has worked as a performer, stage manager, lighting operator, tour manager, production manager, tent boss, site manager, acrobatics instructor and circus band singer. Nicci recalls performing as a shopping trolley tamer as one of the many highlights working with Circus Oz. Among her many skills as a circus performer are: tumbling, Chinese hoop diving, hand balancing, contortion, trick bike, flying trapeze, aerial Russian ring, tightwire, whip-cracking, German wheel, knockabout, shit juggling, not to mention gumboot tap-dancing.
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