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A Gallery of Collages by Nicholas Lockyer

Nicholas Lockyer

Artist’s statement:Visual artist Nicholas Lockyer’s collage work explores the relationship between the saturation point of digitalization in today’s society, Trash Cinema and lowbrow ephemera culture that exists outside the digital world and the themes of primitivism, ritualism, mutation and attitudes towards death.

As undefined forms become cut up, glued and juxtaposed new variations are crafted forming new worlds creatures and environments, With Influences as diverse as writers HP Lovecraft and William Burroughs to film directors David Cronenburg and Roger Corman, famous for their unique ideas of body shock and classic horror.

The work involves Human and swollen tumorous unrecognisable shapes during metamorphosis. It resonates with humanity’s anxiety about there own reflection, in a world so obsessed with the ideal body, Nicholas Lockyer’s work transports this into a Kafkaesque nightmare.

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cargoph7  - Nicholas Lockyer
deathpunch  - Nicholas Lockyer
doghead blue  - Nicholas Lockyer
cowboy - Nicholas Lockyer
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Nicholas Lockyer

Nicholas Lockyer is a London-based collagist, lover of bad films and owner of a mountain of cut up books. See more of his work at http://cargocollective.com/Nicholaslockyercollage.

Author: Nicholas Lockyer Tags: art, collage Category: Visual Art and Visual Poetry March 10, 2015

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