Analogue Disruptions

Nigel Grimmer’s exhibition at the Broadway Gallery will be the artist’s largest presentation of his ongoing series ‘Analogue Disruptions’ to-date. Nigel was selected to receive one of the 2022 Letchworth Open bursaries and will exhibit work alongside Emma Phillips and Tabitha Wilson.

Nigel has been investigating queer self-representation within social media, specifically within dating apps and Instagram. Through obscuring the model’s face, he sets out to critique photographic history and traditional practices. Nigel wraps photographs in found fabrics, overlays stickers, sweets and sculptural elements, that echo in solid form the virtual patterns and emojis that are found in mobile apps. Each seeking to emphasise how manipulated seemingly natural portrait are and how fleeting photographs have become.

Biography

Nigel Grimmer is an artist based in London. He received an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London, and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University. He has exhibited widely both in the UK and the US, including ‘Making Strange’ at Praxis Gallery, New York in 2018 where his work was selected as Director’s Choice Winner; ‘Queer Contemporaries’ at AIR Gallery in Manchester in 2020; ‘Queer Art(ists) Now’ at Void Gallery, London in 2020; and ‘Round Hole, Square Peg: LA Art Show’ in Los Angeles in 2018. Grimmer is the Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts Practice at the University of Bedfordshire and a Visiting Lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of Hertfordshire.