Nicholas Ferguson

Statement

As humans I believe we are capable of incredible super-human feats and through our imagination we create whatever we put our focus on.

My work demonstrates this through playful and occasionally provocative illustrations of life, often poking fun at myself, society and our human idiosyncrasies. The intention is to cause the viewer to consider how they’d rather see the world.

These fantastical storylines come to me intuitively after seeing an image, an experience or coming to a realization about our behaviour. The artworks are painted in oil and are accompanied by poetry.

GlogauAIR Project

My proposal is an exploration of how we choose to see the world and how that shapes reality. I see a series of large scale oil paintings with a combination of abstract and figurative inputs exploring dream-like states. I’m drawn to GlogauAIR’s mission of exploring creativity, creating freely and exhibiting outputs as community and I feel Berlin is a city whose history from the culture of Weimar Germany to the overthrow of communism has a heritage of creativity and free thinking.

I believe this opportunity will bring an extra level of rigour to my practice and exposure to new thinking.

Painting

CV Summary

Exhibitions

• 2023 The Coningsby Gallery, London (SOLO)
• 2022 The Holy Art Gallery, London
• M.A.D.S, Milan / Metaverse
• Zari Gallery, London.
• 2021 Downstairs at the Department Store, London.
• 2004 Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne, Lausanne

Awards

• 2021 Fruhstuck

Gallery