Sense/Place explores a series of personal threads that form a continuum in the maker’s life. 

Paired back from a larger body of work made over some 6 years, the video, sound works and paintings will present a very particular dichotomy: a sense of being embedded in the landscape, and yet distant.

Nicholas’ sound/media practice spans the fields of sound art, live performance and digital video/media, drawing from a wide range or source material and influences from field and urban recordings, found sound and vision to samples and electronics.

A series of paintings reveal aspects of self, and more: painted and scratched onto large found paper, carted around numerous properties in large rolls, and sustaining considerable ‘environmental adjustments’ along the way. 

Sense/Place provided a focal point for Nicholas’ very personal creative work, and critically provides a distinct, yet reflective, perspective on the deep north.