William Nixon
willnix@msn.com
Statement
The underlying theme of Will's work considers our understanding of and attitudes towards what we consider reality to be. Initially the various images appear to be snapshots that portray a variety of British environments, and to an extent they are. However, the works are in fact a calculated juxtaposition of different photographs, which take the form of a college. Each college is digitally manipulated disguising the evidence of human intervention, but not completely.
With the knowledge that the works are actually constructed spaces, each becomes a representation of a possible situation. The key to work's success lies in the balance that the spaces seem real but at the same time not real.Will is influenced by an eclectic range of artists and thinkers: Baudrillard, Magritte, and most recently the work of Mondrian amongst other Modernists, focusing on concepts of Utopia.
In contemporary life photography is deemed the medium for most accurately representing what is real. If a viewer of the work accepts the image as being an actual space then photography in this way masks the fact that it does not exist.
Qualifications and training:
2000 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Charing Cross Rd, London
Selected exhibition list:
- Creekside Open X3, APT Gallery, London May 2009
- Lost Britain (solo show), The Empire, London, May 2009
- Barratt Homes (launch show), Dalston Square, London, February 2009
- Westminster Arts Open, SW1 Gallery, London, 2008
- Photomonth Photo Open, Drays Walk Gallery, London, 2008
- Collect 4, The Empire, London, 2008
- Cork Street Annual Open Exhibition for Charity, London, 2008
- Urban Sublime, My Life In Art Gallery, London 2007
- Creekside Open X2, APT Gallery, London 2007
- Londscapes, London School of Economics, 2007
- Love Art (auction for charity), Royal Institute of British Architects, London, 2006
- Glimpse, South Molton Street, London 2006
- Bar Art, The Exhibit, London 2006
- DegreeArt On Level 1, Earl’s Court, London 2006
- Paintworks, Bristol 2005
- The Affordable Arts Fair, Battersea Park, London 2005
- Candid Arts Fair, The Candid Gallery, London 2005
- DegreeArt at Canary Wharf, London 2004
- Art Below Zero, Urban Outfitters, Glasgow 2003
- Central Saint Martin’s Degree Show, London 2003
- Art Below Zero, Notting Hill Arts Club, London 2003
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