tumour ballet

tumour ballet received a Merit Award at the Parkin Drawing Prize 2024.
Justin Paton, Judge of the 2024 Parkin Drawing Prize, shared these thoughts on the work: “Nela Fletcher, because she too draws you into an unsettling internal world. Her Tumour Ballet reckons artistically with the experience of breast cancer. These frightening growths dance between the beautiful and the terrible. The patient precision of Fletcher’s lines has an emotional payoff: it suggests the control required to calmly picture something that’s out to hurt you.”