About

Nick Cuthbert

Nick is an artist and teacher living and working in Northern England. He graduated from Canterbury College of Art (now part of UCA) in 1982 with a degree in Fine Art. He completed Post Graduate studies at Brighton Polytechnic in 1983 with a PGCE. From 1983 – 1988 Nick worked as a freelance sculptor and artist, based in Bristol. During this time he worked as a community artist in North Bristol, completing a series of community projects in Eastville, Southmead, St Pauls and Abbot’s Leigh. He worked as an artist and teacher in secondary schools in Bristol and North Yorkshire from 1987 until 2020, in a number of posts of responsibility, including Head of Art and Faculty Leader of Creative Arts and Technology.

Nick, although primarily a sculptor, he also explores form and space through painting, drawing and collage. His work explores two and three dimensional form, space and media, inspired by actual and imagined journeys around the world. He is also fascinated by the visual, physical and imaginative links that occur between natural and constructed forms. His two-dimensional work explores how architectural spaces and details provoke an emotional and visceral response from the viewer – with depicted objects inspired by funerary architecture. The more recent three-dimensional sculpture takes the architectural and mechanical elements further towards an ambiguous cross over with natural forms, by making structures that also suggest plant, flower, insect and animal morphology. The ‘history of making’ is a deliberate part of each work, to create a richness of form, space, colour and texture in each piece.

The two-dimensional work is made using layered collage materials and acrylic paint.

The three-dimensional work is constructed using recycled oak, teak, ash and lime, with acrylic paint applied sparingly to carefully selected elements.

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The images below give a taste of inspirations and thoughts across the last 30 years, as well as a sense of place inspired by journeys undertaken and places explored. Inspiration for me, at the moment comes from being in the landscape, but it can be from anything and any source.