Silent Are the Echoes

, 9 December 2011
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Silent Are the Echoes, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod
Silent Are the Echoes, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod

Starting last week EB&Flow brings to London some new works by Threadneedle Prize 2011 Visitor’s Choice Winner: Nicholas McLeod. McLeod’s meticulously painted sinister landscapes of abandoned places, wastelands and crime scenes employ a sense of power and energy…

Carcas, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod
Carcas, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod

Quotidian settings that become threatening after a great mix of acrylics and a later application of oils to create visual tension as the image distorts and destabilises. McLeod tries to investigate the tension we perceive from fictional scenes that indicate that some event has taken place, or is just about to, but nothing is explicitly revealed.

The Farm,, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod
The Farm,, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod

Horror movie settings filled with abandoned clapboard houses, disused water parks or remote farms…. a general atmosphere of darkness and unease is apparent although not prescribed. Works created using source material gathered from films, documentaries and the internet as part of McLeod’s ongoing documentation of contrastingly banal yet ominous crime scene images.

Hunting Ohio, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod
Hunting Ohio, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod

Badlands is the exhibition now taking place until February 3rd @ London’s EB&Flow, and a perfect combination to those many other monsters occupying art galleries this Christmas. Enjoy!

Upfest ’11

13 June 2011
Silent Are the Echoes, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod
Silent Are the Echoes, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod

Starting last week EB&Flow brings to London some new works by Threadneedle Prize 2011 Visitor’s Choice Winner: Nicholas McLeod. McLeod’s meticulously painted sinister landscapes of abandoned places, wastelands and crime scenes employ a sense of power and energy…

Carcas, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod
Carcas, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod

Quotidian settings that become threatening after a great mix of acrylics and a later application of oils to create visual tension as the image distorts and destabilises. McLeod tries to investigate the tension we perceive from fictional scenes that indicate that some event has taken place, or is just about to, but nothing is explicitly revealed.

The Farm,, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod
The Farm,, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod

Horror movie settings filled with abandoned clapboard houses, disused water parks or remote farms…. a general atmosphere of darkness and unease is apparent although not prescribed. Works created using source material gathered from films, documentaries and the internet as part of McLeod’s ongoing documentation of contrastingly banal yet ominous crime scene images.

Hunting Ohio, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod
Hunting Ohio, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod

Badlands is the exhibition now taking place until February 3rd @ London’s EB&Flow, and a perfect combination to those many other monsters occupying art galleries this Christmas. Enjoy!

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Federico Campagna @ RCAfe, May 25

24 May 2016
Silent Are the Echoes, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod
Silent Are the Echoes, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod

Starting last week EB&Flow brings to London some new works by Threadneedle Prize 2011 Visitor’s Choice Winner: Nicholas McLeod. McLeod’s meticulously painted sinister landscapes of abandoned places, wastelands and crime scenes employ a sense of power and energy…

Carcas, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod
Carcas, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod

Quotidian settings that become threatening after a great mix of acrylics and a later application of oils to create visual tension as the image distorts and destabilises. McLeod tries to investigate the tension we perceive from fictional scenes that indicate that some event has taken place, or is just about to, but nothing is explicitly revealed.

The Farm,, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod
The Farm,, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod

Horror movie settings filled with abandoned clapboard houses, disused water parks or remote farms…. a general atmosphere of darkness and unease is apparent although not prescribed. Works created using source material gathered from films, documentaries and the internet as part of McLeod’s ongoing documentation of contrastingly banal yet ominous crime scene images.

Hunting Ohio, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod
Hunting Ohio, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod

Badlands is the exhibition now taking place until February 3rd @ London’s EB&Flow, and a perfect combination to those many other monsters occupying art galleries this Christmas. Enjoy!

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TEXT2SPEECH: Proxy Politics As Withdrawal @ ICA, May 12

11 May 2016
Silent Are the Echoes, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod
Silent Are the Echoes, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod

Starting last week EB&Flow brings to London some new works by Threadneedle Prize 2011 Visitor’s Choice Winner: Nicholas McLeod. McLeod’s meticulously painted sinister landscapes of abandoned places, wastelands and crime scenes employ a sense of power and energy…

Carcas, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod
Carcas, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod

Quotidian settings that become threatening after a great mix of acrylics and a later application of oils to create visual tension as the image distorts and destabilises. McLeod tries to investigate the tension we perceive from fictional scenes that indicate that some event has taken place, or is just about to, but nothing is explicitly revealed.

The Farm,, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod
The Farm,, 2010 by Nicholas McLeod

Horror movie settings filled with abandoned clapboard houses, disused water parks or remote farms…. a general atmosphere of darkness and unease is apparent although not prescribed. Works created using source material gathered from films, documentaries and the internet as part of McLeod’s ongoing documentation of contrastingly banal yet ominous crime scene images.

Hunting Ohio, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod
Hunting Ohio, 2011 by Nicholas McLeod

Badlands is the exhibition now taking place until February 3rd @ London’s EB&Flow, and a perfect combination to those many other monsters occupying art galleries this Christmas. Enjoy!

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