Nick combines found imagery with drawing and painting to create myriad surfaces of faces, eyes, pattern and texture. Motifs mingle with symbols and signs, plucked from their original contexts, in unexpected combinations.

This creative outpouring manifests itself in books, drawings, animation and films. Nick’s work revolves around (in)consistent (anti)themes and styles; nostalgic pop culture; uncanny mis-matchings, and birds, to name but a few.

Nick has hundred’s of found books, magazines and leaflets eccentrically filed in old suitcases under his desk. As a self confessed hoarder, charity shops, flea markets and Ebay are his weakness. The magazines are mostly women’s magazines from the 50’s and 60’s. The books mostly catch his eye with the title, especially things like ‘Judo for Girls’ or ‘Russian for Scientists’. Occasionally pressed by the seller, into divulging what he will do with said literature, Nick has concocted many a story to hide his interest in what will ultimately result in an act of defacing someone’s treasured collection of knitting pamphlets

He regularly exhibits in London group shows as well as further afield. He has collaborated on moving image projects shown at the Tate Modern, the LABAN and the Imax, London.

In 2010 Nick won an award of excellence from the Society for News Design and in 2011 Nick’s artwork for Bloomberg Businessweek was one of the winning covers in the Magazine & Newspaper Design category of the D&AD Awards.

Clients

Plan B
Los Angeles Times
Time Out London
World of Interiors
CENT magazine
No-Brow
Dufus (Iron Man Records)
Merz (Gronland Records)
Howies
The Big Issue
The Victoria & Albert Museum
The Spectator
Bloomberg Business Week
Eye magazine

Links

www.thisisnickwhitecom