Nicholas Cobb

Nicholas Cobb is an artist who exhibits regularly and has been the subject of a number of articles about his working method where he constructs elaborate dioramas which are then photographed from various viewpoints.
A number of his Car Park series photographs were exhibited in the Whitechapel Gallery and most recently, at the inaugural Peckham Festivals show in the Copeland Gallery, his 7 metre After Oil diorama caused much interest as in the past the size of the dioramas has meant they were never kept or exhibited.
A dystopian anxiety runs through these models and series of photographs. Taking the psycho-spatial critique of the built environment found in J.G. Ballard's late novels as a starting point, Cobb implies a narrative or storyboard by arranging 1:87 scale figures in crowded or intimate scenes which grow ever more disturbing.

Essays on his work have appeared in ICON, Photofile and fLIP magazines. His Car Park series [2010] features in the recently published Microworlds [2011] – an international survey of artists using the miniature scale. Cultural critic Mark Dery wrote about his Office Park work, 'Like the yuppie apartment-tower dwellers in David Cronenberg’s Shivers, driven to acts of bacchanalian depravity by a se...

St. Martin's School of Art
Wimbledon School of Art
B.A. Fine Art

Recent Solo Exhibitions:
Crow of One Tree Hill, Dulwich, London, 2017
After Oil, Dulwich Festivals, London 2016
Car Park Ruin, Nunhead Pop-up Gallery, Nunhead, London 2014
Pilgrimage [homage to Cezanne], Putney School of Art, London 2013

Recent Group Shows:
Peckham Festivals, Copeland Gallery, London 2016
ArtGemini, Southwark St., London 2015
Creekside Open, Deptford curated by Richard Deacon, London 2015;
Peckham Vision, Bussey Building, Peckham, London 2014
The Independent Art Fair, Bethnal Green Pavilion, London 2013;
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London 2012;