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WeAr Magazine | feature
New painting Blockhead 1 – featured in WeAr global magazine’s 20th anniversary special edition. Featuring the very best of 20 years of art and fashion that WeAr has published.
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Artnet | feature
The work of rising artists such as Nick Gentry, Henrietta Harris, Nancy Gifford, and Louis Fratino are featured alongside works by seminal 20th-century artists.
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Galerie Magazine | feature
In a new body of arresting assemblage paintings for the exhibition Skin Deep, uses crowd-sourced VHS tapes as the grounds for extraordinarily realistic portraits of cyborg sensations.
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Colossal | feature
The artist invites questions that are uniquely contemporary, asking about performance and presentation on the internet, increasingly artificial standards of beauty, and the instability of memory.
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BBC Radio 4 | interview
What lessons for the future, can we learn from our relationship with an obsolete bit of tech? Aleks seeks out the last people selling, and experimenting with, floppy disks.
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Artnet | feature
A new Miami exhibition, presented by Robert Fontaine Gallery, pulls back the curtain on Domestic Intimacy. With Work by Larry Clark, Louis Fratino, and Celia Hempto.
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Floppy Disk Fever | book
Floppy Disk Fever explores the curious afterlives of the floppy disk in the twenty-first century by interviewing those involved with the medium today.
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BBC News | feature
VHS tapes, floppy disks and cassette tapes are largely redundant. But one artist is making use of these obsolete technologies by turning them into art.
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King & McGaw | interview
Artist Nick Gentry is inspired by the impact of internet culture. We talk to him about his experiments with obsolete formats, combining them into figurative forms.
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The Guardian | feature
Artist Nick Gentry takes rolls of vintage negatives, piles of long-discarded computer disks and old x-rays … then brings new hi-tech humans to life.
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TRT2 | interview
Turkish TV channel TRT2 interviewed Nick in his London studio to talk about how he repurposes outdated technological materials to make his social art.
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WWF | Feature
Artworks featuring the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous People, by artist Nick Gentry put a spotlight on the amazing connection Indigenous Peoples have with the forest.
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Evening Standard | Feature
A series of portraits by contemporary artist Nick Gentry, using computer punch cards from the 60s and 70s to tell the stories of frontline NHS workers.
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Forbes | feature
Ever wondered what to do with obsolete tech storage items? Nick Gentry turns them into remarkable works of art, hanging in galleries, public settings, and homes across the world.
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Artimage | interview
Nick Gentry talks to Artimage about finding human connection through artworks, collaborative projects and his latest exhibition; ‘Human Connection’.
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Arts in the City | interview
Nick Gentry sculpts the faces of time on computer diskettes. Can a human being become obsolete? Can portraiture be reinvented? Does painting have a future?
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ITV | feature
Artist Nick Gentry is bringing obsolete floppy disks and videotapes into the 21st Century - by transforming them into shimmering portraits. ‘Human Connection’ at London's Opera Gallery.
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BBC Two | interview
Nick Gentry and recycled art - introduction. The artist, sitting in his studio surrounded by his artwork, explains how he re-uses outdated technology to create his artwork.
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My Modern Met | feature
Thanks to rapid advances in memory storage, the days of bulky discs and hard drives are over. But what happens to all of the now-obsolete tech items accumulating dust in our homes?
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