Nick Sherratt

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” Roald Dahl
Like most things nowadays something profound has to be reduced to a sound bite morsel for the convenience of the busy culture consumer! Yes I do find joy in the detritus but it’s not necessarily about anything like that, it’s the hidden magic, making the seemingly irrelevant –relevant; and giving the significance back to things. Making stuff is a magical event, an idea, immaterial, just electrons becomes something material, crystallized in reality, manipulation of matter to change consciousness is the goal of all art.
I make things that I would like to see, what I think of as visually beautiful and arresting and hopefully so will others – but the ritual element, the ideas, working with the ideas then committing it to materials is exciting, stirring something up deep inside and hoping that viewers are stirred up by it also. I like that place where ideas float about like balloons just out of reach, and the fact that you can’t necessarily find or use words to anchor them down and give meaning to art like a science project. Th...

Publications
'Art and Soul' & Front Cover. SW19 Resident, Issue 80, May 2013
'How to buy Art'. SW Magazine, Issue 281, November 2012

Education
Liverpool John Moores University, PGCE Art & Design
Liverpool John Moores University, BA (hons) Fine Art

2014 - Wimbledon Art Studios Open Studios Art Show - Wimbledon Art Studios, London - 15th - 18th May
Liverpool Love - Liverpool World Museum (part of Liverpool Biennial) July
2013 - Wimbledon Art Studios Open Studios Art Show - Wimbledon Art Studios, London - 21st - 24th Nov
Wimbledon Art Studios Open Studios Art Show - Wimbledon Art Studios, London - 16th - 19th May
The Other Art Fair - Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London. Held during April.
2012 – Open Studios Art Show. Wimbledon Art Studios, London.
2011 – Twinned. Eggspace, Liverpool.
Twinned. Threshold Festival, The C.U.C., Liverpool.