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Nigel Grimmer

Place of birth Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Country of residence United Kingdom

Nigel Grimmer's practice explores the relationship between public and personal imagery and its influence on the production of identity. An archive of ephemera from popular culture - comic books, action figures, joke shop props, snapshots and film stills - is drawn through his personal narratives and then returned to the public realm. Rendered both strange and familiar, Grimmer presents an alternative to mainstream culture, an acknowledgement of his experience by the conveyance of a unique sensibility, a subculture, formed by the selection and editing of this material.

Nigel Grimmer was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. He completed his Masters in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 1998. Since graduating Grimmer has exhibited throughout the UK and has shown work in Germany, France and Switzerland. Grimmer has curated a number of exhibitions in London and his work is regularly published in a variety of journals. Arts Council East and The Elephant Trust currently support his work. During 2006 Nigel Grimmer exhibited in Standpoint, Lounge, VTO and Fosterart in London, as well as Shrewsbury Museum and Gallery, Surface Gallery in Nottingham and MAC in Birmingham; in 2007 he will exhibit at The Margaret Harvey Gallery in St. Albans, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum and Fieldgate in London. Nigel Grimmer has recently produced bodies of work in Tokyo and Berlin; he currently lives and works in both London and Norfolk.

Work Exhibited (Solo Exhibitions)
2008
•Plastic Life, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, UK
Photographic works on canvas and framed prints
•Plastic Life, 20-21 Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK
Photographic works on canvas and framed prints
2007
•Roadkill Family Album, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans, UK
Photographic works on canvas
2006
•Places I Call Home, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK
Photographic works on canvas, installed models
2005
•Places I Call Home, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Norwich, UK
Photographic works on canvas, PowerPoint display
•Based on a True Story, First Out, London, UK
Six photographic works on canvas, nine photographic prints
2004
•Based on a True Story, Norwich Arts Centre, UK
Selection of thirty colour photographs and drawings
•Bender! Folly Gallery, Lancaster, UK
Nine colour photographs
1999
•No Place Left To Go, Window 42, London, UK
Installation of found objects with text
1998
•Passing, Windows Gallery, London, UK
Installation of found objects

Work Exhibited (Selected Group Exhibitions)
2007
•Driven, Fieldgate, London, UK
Photographic works on canvas
2006
•Think Pink, The Arts Forum, Hastings, UK
Photographic work in Perspex frames
•Objects in Waiting, End Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Found objects
•Brownfield (touring), MAC Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK
Photographic works on canvas
•Secret, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Set of three digital prints
•Open Show 2006, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Photographic work on canvas
•Summer Exhibition, Fosterar

Exhibitions Start Your Collection 2007!, 01.Aug - 30.Sep.07, Contemporary Art Projects, DRIVEN, 30.Jun - 29.Jul.07, Fieldgate Gallery, Summer exhibition 2006, 17.Aug - 03.Sep.06, Contemporary Art Projects, Winter Exhibition 2006, 26.Jan - 26.Feb.06, Contemporary Art Projects


http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/

 

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