Design Incubator Artist Nikki Apse

Nikki Apse is a practicing graphic designer and art director. She has spent over a decade in the commercial realm of design and advertising, working on projects for a diverse collection of clients ranging from big brands to the boutique.

Apse’s latest series “Topography” (a twist on the word typography), is employed as a metaphor for New Zealand cultural ‘maps’ and the ‘surface features’ of paint on board and canvas.

The dialogue is often nostalgic in tone evoking New Zealand tourism posters from the 50’s and 60’s. Metaphor abounds.

Apse’s works explore contrast – hard and soft, large scale and small scale, the nostalgic and the contemporary, the dark and the saccharine, adding and stripping away – imbued with a sense of irony, humour and double entendre.

Nikki’s ‘In the News’ cushion and tea towel prints are now in store.