COLLAGE ARTIST
Interview with Nick Gentry
Best known for his haunting portraits, London-based artist Nick Gentry draws on donated, obsolete technological materials as the grounds for his paintings. Questioning the fundamental relationship between technology, society and identity, Gentry uses CDs, film negatives, cassettes and floppy disks to comment “on the speed and extent of the changes that are taking place today.” In Tania Mundell’s Kolaj #18 interview with him, Gentry talks about the “chaotic and intuitive” process behind each portrait, why he uses obsolete objects and the impact new technological advances may have on his work.
Tania Mundell’s interview with Nick Gentry appears in Kolaj #18. To see the interview and other articles from the issue, SUBSCRIBE to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue.
Faces are like a map of somebody’s life, over time it changes and it shows so much about a person. With the way that we live now, faces are sort of becoming new. Portraiture has to respond to the idea of things like biometrics.
Gentry studied at the Liverpool College of Art and graduated from Central Saint Martins in London in 2006. Since then, the artist has shown extensively around the world, including shows in United Kingdom, Belgium, Peru, Singapore, and the United States. In 2016, he exhibited with C24 Gallery at the fairs, Contemporary Istanbul and Art Miami. He is represented by Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami. See more at his website.
Tania Mundell’s interview with Nick Gentry appears in Kolaj #18. To see the interview and other articles from the issue, SUBSCRIBE to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue.
Images:
(top)
D Base
by Nick Gentry
11″x14.2″
oil paint and used computer disks on wood
2013
This image was featured in the November 2013 issue of Le Monde diplomatique.
(centre)
Self Portrait 5
by Nick Gentry
52″x35.4″
oil paint and used computer disks on wood
2014