b. 1974. British.
Figurative paintings
Installations, events and community engagement projects
Nick Hersey Artist statement
I remain doggedly attached to the injustice of inequality (gender, financial, intellectual etc) and the abject corruption wagered by elites and minorities of excessive wealth and power over redundant cattle citizens numbed by consumerism and social network engineered consent… It gnaws at me less now as I focus on being the change I want to see, but it still fans the embers of my creative drive. I flip flop between cynicism and sublimity- sometimes marvelling at the song birds on my balcony at other times screaming ‘bastard’ into the void or the traffic jam or the police escort shooing away traffic for yet another corrupt malaysian politician / celebrity / corporate slob in order to get them home quicker. I guess Im mellowing, but reluctant to let go of the angry idiot within. My output artistically has been focused onchain, of course, and I have built a modest cult around my last couple of projects ‘shitface’ and ‘degen or degenerate’. I feel loved, I delight at the acknowledgement I receive from people I’ve never met, and I feel that the HERSOID/nick hersey brand has found footing in some small corner of the attentionsphere. My plans far exceed this and the support I now recieve every day from my beloved team here make me feel positive that I will achieve the greatness I now feel confident that I deserve and will achieve.
I stay hungry, in lieu of easy sell, and I am proud of the arsey protgonist I have created as brand Hersoid.
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Rocking horse shit
Boys
Oil on canvas
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Selected paintings 2018-2024
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The despondency series (below) looks at the predicament of a generation who have become disenchanted with authority, who have lost faith in the establishment’s ability to cope with various impending crises such as climate change, the conflict arising from the competition for natural resources and financial collapse. They turn inward, exhausted by the inaction, greed and incompetency of the very systems that should be supporting and enabling them.
