Nicholas McArthur is a multi-media artist working with painting, drawing, collage and sculpture, through which he creates landscapes where psychic dimensions are made physical, and where reality, time and space are defined by the inner journey of the protagonist. Nicholas's work contends with themes such as collective memory, contemporary mythology and emotional or psychological salvation.
Each piece tells a story inviting the viewer to enter into an alternate perception. Interwoven narratives and symbolic elements draw points of connection between fractured imagery and meanings. Regrets, desires, passions and memories meld together and metamorphose to form an articulation of an inner world.
Nicholas's work has been exhibited in a number of solo exhibitions and group shows in the UK and internationally. Nicholas has also been involved in several performance based projects, the most recent of these being 'The Dancing Plague of 1518' a narrative/dance performance.
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THE DANCING PLAGUE OF 1518
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... THE WALLS DISSOLVED AS THEY WALKED THOUGH THE DOOR AND ALL THAT WAS LEFT WAS WHAT HAD BEEN THERE BEFORE…
At Viktor Wynd Fine Art - CLOSING Saturday 26TH MARCH 2011
Exploring the relationship between film and painting and the use of duration, movement and stillness to tell a story, this exhibition documents the exchange between two artist that have worked closely as peers for many years and whose strong friendship continues to inform the work they make.
Both artists use a distinctive narrative or symbolic structure, often focusing on a single protagonist through which to explore the worlds they create. Their characters are in search of something or someone: this might be a quest for salvation, atonement or home and it can take the shape of either a physical or a metaphysical journey. This search articulates itself within a system of belief or new mythology created by the artists, that is self-sustaining and absolute for the character and that can offer psychological fulfillment within the parameters of each specific piece of work.
This exhibition endeavors to trace points of contact between the two artists' practices while at the same time exploring their diverging approaches to a similar theme. Through the use of cinematic and theatrical devicessuch as sets, lighting, sound and projections, the artists will give form to an interior landscape and offer an insight into their creative process...
WATCH MY FILM 'A JOURNEY THROUGH MY WORK'