Welcome to NicoWesterdale.com. This site showcases my body of work that
I've produced over the years. Below you'll find some of my recent oil
paintings; methodical and repetitive brushstrokes build up the
translucent surfaces, bringing a thin veil of depth to the surface.
The repetition is not mechanical, but in each piece follows defined rules.
Through the analogue nature of human creation the discrepancies combine
to create the undefined surface.
The repetitive aspect can be seen in much of my earlier work.
Pieces like ‘
One Kilometer’ which comprises of a thousand meter
long lines and ‘
Twenty three
thousand, two hundred and thirty two
PseudoGlyphs’ are entirely repetitious. The result of the repetition
is often a veiled image, and when we look at it we can see the
surface and the illusion of an image at the same time.
These repetitive themes continue into the photographic pieces shown on the site.
In works such as ‘
Discarded Umbrellas’ and
‘
Lost Glove Rug’ individual items that were
once useful and had owners have been collected together to form new
pieces.
Using the menus above you can view past work and exhibitions.
My work also engages directly with digital culture, placing emphasis
on the people that occupy digital environments. Looking at any office
computer monitor we usually see the left-over fingerprints that
invariable get placed on our screens throughout the work day.
‘
Dirty Fingerprints’ is a
screensaver that gathers mouse-clicks
from a variety of collaborating websites, and display them as a
screensaver. The
HyperLight
projects play with the space between the physical and the virtual,
overlaying the two and placing the visitor between both.
For many years I've been running
Iconico.com, which hosts
many of the software products and inventions that I've built
over the years.
Nico Westerdale studied fine art in Oxford, England and has
exhibited in New York City.
Below are a few of my recent works on oil, click for a larger view.
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