Nicholas Symes

Symes studied at KIAD and Middlesex University. He is the curator of an annual open-air show in London.

Nicholas Symes’ works, in a variety of media, embody little stabs at empathy, misdirected or puzzling attempts to find, record and get inside real life, to inhabit someone else’s mental space, to put himself in places where he has no business being.

Solo shows:

'urbane gorilla ooh ooh' untitled house gallery, 1999

sticks dogs have chewed wiebke morgan, 2003

Selected Group shows:

'beached' (with ben nicholson& derek jarman) MOT, 2005

'worn out wash monkeys' powell road, 2004

'disappointed'
32 classic mansions, 2004

'full english'
MOT, 2003

'huge reward'
highgate woods, 2003

'everything must go'
shock corridor, 2000

'agglutinate of pleasures' gallery 291, 2000

'confederacy of pleasures' gallery westland place, 1999

'renovate'
shoreditch town hall, 1997