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.
Nostalgic elements from our past play heavily in the practice of Nick Sherratt. He often sites historic science fiction that projected extreme dystopian visions for the future or influences that have stayed with him since childhood, gently referred to by the artist at ‘stuff’. Super Ray Gun’s, werewolves, The Beatles, and Japanese visions of city’s being attacked by giant sea beasts are a few subjects that appear frequently in his work. Sherratt’s multifaceted sculptural practice uses all manner of media to express his visual iterations.
Sherratt says “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 becoming something material, crystallised in reality, manipulation of matter to change consciousness … I make things that I would like to see, what I think of as visually beautiful and arresting and, hopefully, so will others.”
Nick Sherratt has been making stuff since before he could crawl, he is a post-graduate and former Fellow in Painting at John Moores University, who now lives and works in London.