Meet Nick White, illustrator & animator of colossal proportions.

Nick combines found imagery with drawing & painting to create myriad surfaces of faces, eyes, pattern and texture. Motifs mingle with symbols and signs, plucked from their original contexts, in unexpected combinations.

He makes books and drawings and animation and films. Colossal.

At Kingston University Nick completed an Illustration BA in the year of our Lord 2004. From then on Nick has worked as a skilled ninja, pastry chef and illustrator. In his illustrator capacity Nick’s work boasts (in)consistent (anti)themes and styles; nostalgic pop culture; uncanny mis-matchings, and birds, to name but a few.

He has exhibited at:
The Stairwell Gallery,  London
Gutes Von Freunden, Frankfurt, Germany
Noise festival (Liverpool Biennal 2006) @ View 2 Gallery, Liverpool
NOG Gallery, London
Luna and Curious, London
Mystery spot @ Indo's, London
The Joyful bewilderment @ Rough trade east, london.
SALE, The royal Standard, Liverpool
Vincent steinbeck, the fleapit, london
Solo show / book launch for 'People I've never met & conversations I've never had.' , concrete hermit, london.

(Worked on) Moving image projects shown at Tate Modern, the LABAN and the Imax, London

Clients include:
The Big issue, the V&A, LA times, howies, anorak magazine, Plan B, time out london, world of interiors, .CENT magazine, Nobrow, the combination of..., Decode media, Dufus (Iron Man Records), Merz: Gronland Records, Eye magazine, the dial for the Spectator, Oglivy & Mather.

Awards:
2010 - award for excellence from society for news design for Fugue state illustration for L.A times.
2011 - artwork for Bloomberg Businessweek's 'Coke In Africa' issue, one of the winning covers in the Magazine & Newspaper Design category of the D&AD Awards.
- certificate of typographic excellence from the Type Directors Club for the Bloomberg Businessweek 'Coke In Africa' issue. also included in the Annual of the Type Directors Club, Typography 32, and shown at the 57th Awards Exhibition in New York.

Publications:
'Illustration Now! Vol 3' published by Taschen
'Illustration' by Andrew Hall published by Laurence King
'Signs and Symbols' by Keith Stephenson and Mark Hampshire published by Rotovision.

nick is represented in the UK and U.S by HEART.

Nick lives in London with Lucy, Kate, kit, Tim and Laura but not Annie. (Annie was a cat)

Nick’s brother once threw a dart into Nicks hand.

Nick mostly likes to write in third person but never second.

“Nick White’s art has a remarkable ability to reanimate dead images with hectic yet brave pencil marks” - Holly

“Nick constantly surprises me” - Person who likes Nick’s work

“Nick owes me money” - Anonymous