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Nick Malone

Deptford
Nick Malone has exhibited widely, both in the UK and internationally, and his work is represented in a number of significant collections.
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I love to cross art forms, exploring the interaction between my ideas, writing and images as palimpsests of text rise through successive veils of paint. Emerging out of real narrative adventures, these works hold in the paint those moments of chance and intent when their stories unfolded. Like pages torn from sketchbooks, they trace, as dissolving and reforming maps, routes where ambiguity and multiple narrative weave through a landscape of inner and outer perception. Offering direct equivalents to material physics and the nature of thought, they seek consensus in their own reality, and are, in their own terms, a form of realism.

Lived Experience

I was initially a writer and supported myself with an academic career. During this period I was Visiting Professor at Thessaloniki University in Greece and Wisconsin University in America, and these experiences, combined with my travels across Russia, provided material that would later figure in the adventures of my later work. My first book, ‘The Burial of Crispin Pyke’, had an introduction by William Empson, some of whose ideas in ‘Seven Types of Ambiguity’ Isubsequently transferred into painting and drawing. I then abandoned this former life to become a full-time artist.

My art practice has evolved over time, from cruciform landscapes developed from the figure to chance interactions with mixed media, layers and glazes; my more recent work uses collage, text and images for an iconography of inner fable, geography and dream, allowing the viewer to see different dimensions, both within their own psyche and within the physical world around them.

 

Where Squadrons of Insects Were Swimming Through the Open Skies

Ascend on Light the Sleeping Stair

Cartoon I

Cartoon II

Cartoon III

A Disappearance IV

Disappearance I

'Eustace & Makepeace - Their Final Encounter'

Working Drawing -'A Disappearance - Mystery Timelines I & II'

Marches III

The Life of Margins

Balkan Earth - Archival Pigment on German Etching Paper - Print Edition of 50

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