Nick Kennedy’s multi-disciplinary practice includes drawing, sculpture, installation, performance and printmaking. His work is often experimental, exploring the relationship between intuition and logic, and examining the nature of chaos and unpredictability. Kennedy’s ‘Timecast’ series of prints, made in collaboration with Kip Gresham, are a meditative, physical record of the passing of time. The artist attached a v-shaped arm with a fine pencil lead to the second hand of a clock mechanism. As the mechanism ticked around, the pencil leads drew dots – sixty (representing sixty seconds) to each rotation. At six stages in this drawing process the image was recorded onto film and subsequently, a printing stencil. The six layers were then printed on top of one another using a mono-printing process to make each print unique.
Kennedy has curated exhibitions and exhibited widely. His work is held in public collections including the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. He lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne.
