UK Solo exhibition

“LIFE IS CHANGE - HOPE”

Date: 2018

Location: Shoreditch, London, UK

Artworks:

• VARIOUS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS - OIL AND MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS - VARIOUS SIZES

• PHOTOGRAPHY - VARIOUS SIZES

• NFT COLLECTION

  PART 1

• An investigation into mental health. Starting from the personal point of view of the artist. During three years of psychotherapy, Nicholas would take a sketchbook into the sessions as he discovered it was easier to express his feelings through drawings than to explain in words at times. The drawings from the sketchbook have been extrapolated and developed into the series of works in part 1.

  The aim is to set the scene and to offer an openness, on the part of Nicholas through his own journey of discovery, into how mental health can affect us inwardly and then create consequences in the outside world. From this foundation, further questions are asked about how these same principles have shaped the world through human actions and motivations;
  For example the big global effects on the planet and populations from individuals and groups suffering from various levels of unrecogniSed and untended mental health issues. Investigating the wider social and political systems that have risen and how they have been carved by various systemic mental health conditions.

  “Is this just our nature finding its way or are we lost in our own reason and unnatural direction.”

  PART 2

• ‘Hope’ is a mix tape, that investigates the current question derived from the feeling of “tomorrow is not better than today”.
  Like most ideas, this second part of the show started with a conversation about life with a good friend. “Isn’t it funny how the 80s always seemed to have this weird sense of hope”. Nicholas takes a closer look at the concept of ‘Hope’ and whether we are entitled to have a “tomorrow better than today” or whether this is just an economic concept that was created to channel resources to the few. Is this a major cause of the problems we face today both in our mental states and the environment

  we are still destroying.

  Is the true nature of life just change, constantly moving from one form to the next, from one thought to the next, from one feeling to the next? Would letting go and realigning with this simple notion help guide our decisions, actions, and reactions better?

  ‘Life is Change’.

  Nicholas has taken the humble mix tape to be the symbol of hope, a gift given to a friend or loved one to express their feelings through the song lyrics. A gesture of Hope, an icon, a cassette tape. He has created his own version of this symbol and used it to develop his series of works.