Nicola Dale

Over the course of many months, I have used ten different colours to cover the wallpaper's chips. This piece takes its cue from the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860-1935) in which a young woman describes her increasingly harmful obsession with the wallpaper which covers the room in which she convalesces: 'I know a little of the principle of design, and I know this thing was not arranged on any laws of radiation, or alternation, or repetition, or symmetry, or anything else that I ever heard of....There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.'