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Nick Cass

Uppermill
I am an artist and academic. I have a particular interest in the relationship between heritage, museum collections and artistic practice.
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R.L. Gregory, the experimental psychologist described the unique qualities of human perception as an active process; one in which our brain is constantly testing and re-testing hypotheses regarding what might be in front of our eyes;

Seeing is so familiar, apparently so easy, it takes a leap of imagination to appreciate that the eyes set extremely difficult problems for the brain to solve for seeing to be possible. How does it work? How are ghostly images transformed into appearances of solid objects, lying in an outer world of space and time?

My work emerges as a result of a number of interests; a fascination with perception and representation, the tension between surface and illusion, translations between two and three dimensions, digital processes and the handmade. Not least due to my intertwined career working in museums and heritage, my work often responds to and explores these questions as they relate to historical sources and ideas of artist and museum collaborations.

 

Near and Far IV

South Square Frieze

Park Row Drawing

Net for an illusion

Strapwork

Literal Spaces

Flat One

Untitled drawing (after Vredeman)

Flatpack

Plinth

Sketches after Cimabue

Drawing after Josef Albers 25/4/05

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