Nell Castor (b. 2001, United States) is a sculptor and digital artist. Her work is founded on a personal lexicon of color and symbolic characters that wrestle with universal human emotions. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she now lives and works in London.
Castor’s work starts from the chest. She makes art to metabolize her feelings, expel
them and evolve. This rite of passage began with a series of digital illustrations she
created in her teens. As technology began to feel like a dislocation from her emotions,
she became obsessed with making physical things. Castor isn’t a painter or a sculptor. She
isn't loyal to any one material or method. There are repeated colors, characters and a
core set of 15 self-generated symbols in place. Individual works may appear chaotic,
isolated or disconnected, but there is an intentional correlation across her body of work.
Each piece is part of an ongoing conversation she is having with herself about the
digestion, transformation, expulsion and evolution of human feelings.