Human beings are innately spiritual creatures, and the sensation of our spiritual nature is altered by a digital climate. We exist presently with the physical, but the virtual world is an invisible plane that glitches in and out of reality to form our hyperreal condition.

In my exhibition, I capture the spectrum of the hyperreal. The fluid movement of our bodies between the physical and the digital, exploring space and our place in it.

When entering the first room, the viewer is confronted by intimate digital portraits, looking onto them as you would a device, experiencing the familiarity of digital sensations against the raw, earthy pigments of oil paint. It is a standard gallery setting, keeping the viewer at a handheld distance from the digital space. Upon immersing themselves into the second room, the panoramic imagery of scattered bodies and colour in a blaring LED setting sits them more fully in the indistinctly fictional reality that is the digital plane. The space is more voided and separate, retaining sensations of physicality among a digital emptiness, where space and boarders are unconfined. This room manipulates and displaces reality in the panoramic setting in response to rendering a virtual environment. I construct the work in this room so that they compliment each other as one, rather than as stand alone pieces to intensify the space.

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Contact: nathangrace25@outlook.com

CV:

Arts Education:

• Leeds Arts University (2016 – 2017)
• University of Brighton (2017 – 2021)

Exhibitions:

• Leeds Foundation Show 01, Vernon Street, Leeds, (2017)
• Painting Festival 01, Old Steine Gardens, Brighton (2018)
• Face to Face (Curator), Edward Street Building, Brighton, (2020)
• Fuse (Upcoming), Regency Townhouse, (2021)

Awards:

• Scholarship for the Arts at King Williams College in the Isle of Man
• Honorary Scholarship for Fine Art and School award for Fine Art at Kingswood School in Bath.