Nik Ramage
I make machines that move or look like they might. Not useful machines but sculptural ones: with foibles and flaws, ticks and squeaks, overcomplicated and under achieving.
Some require the viewer to set them in motion; others have a life of their own. They are made from a motley collection of disparate parts, embracing the lost and the broken, machine parts and domestic objects. These are machines born of ideas but skirting around utility. Machines suffused with the human condition, absurd and uncertain.
Born 1970, London
1989-92 Graphic Design BA (Hons), Brighton Polytechnic
2019 Elected an academician at Royal West of England Academy
2023 Member Royal Society of Sculptors
Solo
2021 13 Amp Muse, Tension, London
2020 Practical Daydreams, The Shophouse, Hong Kong
2019 Rounds, The Chapel, Abergavenny
2017 Shadows and Whispers, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
2016 Haphazards- The Wayward Inventions of Nik Ramage, Paul Smith, London
Selected Group shows
2023 Samples, Cromwell Place, London
2022 Certeza, Colección SOLO, Madrid
He aprendido…, Sala Amo´s Salvador, Logroño
2021 Knotenpuknt21, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg
2020 Still Human, Colección SOLO, Madrid
Online: Strange Times (Ukraine), Art in Context (China)
2019 Artwork, Objects & Curiosities, Paul Smith, London
Sculpture Open, RWA, Bristol
Brexit, Belasting & Douane museum, Rotterdam
2018 Royal Academy Summer exhibition, London
2015 Workplace for the New World, Bureau Europa, Maastricht
2014 What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me, Fine Art Society, London
Kinetica Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London
Affordable Art Fair, London
Collections
Works in the collections of Colección SOLO, Contemporary Art Society, Miniature Museum, Netherlands, Randy Lerner, Paul Smith, Jonathan Ive.
Projects
2022 The Art of Noise, Deliaphonic, Coventry
2020 Development of Brick edition with Colección SOLO
2019 Essex Bike Sculpture, Southend
Chain reaction machine for Segro
2018 Staring machine, Battersea Arts Centre
2016-2020 Special editions of Fingers for Paul Smith
2016 Marvellous Mechanica, Hole & Corner/ London Craft Week