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Nick Malone is a British Artist who crosses art forms to create adventures in painting, drawing and writing, often combining traditional and experimental techniques in unforeseen ways to create Artwork full of dynamic contrasts.
He was born in the north of England, his childhood spent stargazing and exploring the surrounding moors. His subsequent education included postgraduate degrees in Contemporary Literature from Queen Mary College, London and in Fine Art from Central St Martins.
Initially he was a writer, supported by an academic career that included periods as a Visiting Professor at Thessaloniki University, Greece and the University of Wisconsin in the States. His first book, The Burial of Crispin Pyke, had an introduction by Sir William Empson, some of whose ideas in Seven Types of Ambiguity he subsequently transferred into painting. He travelled extensively across Russia, Europe and America, experiences that combined to provide creative material for his later work.
In his thirties, against all advice, he then threw up everything to become an Artist.
Nick Malone’s work has been exhibited across the world, from Japan to the United States, including at the Royal Academy and the Carrousel du Louvre. He has won various awards, including Arts Council England Awards and Fellowship of The Royal Society of Arts. His Artwork and artist’s books are represented in a number of collections, including The British Council, Salford Art Gallery, The Royal Society of Arts, Milton Keynes Gallery Archive, The Drawing Room, The University of Wisconsin, BUPA, The RAC and GlaxoSmithKline.


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JASON SMITH'S NOCTURAL OPERA I - A HIGH ROOM

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JASON SMITH'S NOCTURAL OPERA II - THE LUMBER ROOM

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JASON SMITH'S NOCTURAL OPERA III - THE CONSERVATORY

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JASON SMITH'S NOCTURAL OPERA IV - AN ATTIC AVIARY

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JASON SMITH'S NOCTURAL OPERA V -  PASSAGES UNDERGROUND

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JASON SMITH'S NOCTURAL OPERA VI - THE SNOW QUEEN

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JASON SMITH'S NOCTURAL OPERA VII - THE DANCE OF THE DAY

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JASON SMITH'S NOCTURAL OPERA VIII - HIS LAST SONG

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JASON SMITH'S NOCTURAL OPERA IX - THE STAIRCASE

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JASON SMITH'S NOCTURAL OPERA X - KHARTOUM

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Jason Smith’s Nocturnal Opera follows the encounters of the eponymous hero through one night in a house of ghosts in my prizewinning book of the same name, written with the support of an Arts Council England Award.
All the paintings involve interaction with writing through changing layers and glazes and were made by manipulating unstretched canvas into 3D 'maps' of mountains and valleys, where paint was poured and then evaporated before subsequent intervention. All the works involve an interaction in defining forms between chance and intent, between willed and unwilled areas of paint.
The series was first exhibited by the SW1 Gallery London.

JASON SMITH'S NOCTURNAL OPERA I - IX

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