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162 Blackstock road
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Nick Pollen
Painting is both a technically and intellectually challenging process so much of my working practice deals with the problems
inherent in exploring its qualities and parameters. The subject of my painting assumes this characteristic and links it to the
uncertainties inherent in memory, documentation and reportage.
My work to date has fallen into a number of categories. The
piece ‘Linus Pauling In his Studio with Atomic Model’ is a consideration of the nature of the scientific investigation and
language used to explain the mechanisms of memory. Whether the language available at present is able to explain the nature
of cultural memory, for example, how myths are created and sustained is a question raised by this work and other pieces
(for example, I created a large scale piece which included current research within the fields of psychology, neuroscience
was divided between a biomedical science laboratory and a gallery space). The works entitled ‘Another Happily Made Ever
Ready Ready Made’ and ‘Telescape’ come under the series of works 'Artist Documentation'. This series uses documentary
material and presents it in order to appraise and question the manner in which information and visual documentary is
selected and presented to produce/ maintain particular readings of art/history. This series is at present being expanded.
www.nickpollen.co.uk
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