Overview
NICK PATON
selected by Jessie Makinson
Born in Edinburgh in 1984, Nick Paton spent 5 years in the Royal Navy before completing his BA in photography and film at Napier University in 2012. Paton then came to sculpture on his MA at City and Guilds London Art School in 2019. By manipulating various materials through heat, Paton considers ideas of borders through thoughtful and mischievous interactions with objects; he questions the idea of what space is and how we navigate our parameters.
The objects that surround me occupy a position of abstract autonomous plural thought. They explore what an object's potential is or what it could be. How it communicates, plays, discusses, learns, and becomes active. It is within these boundaries, where the sculpture tries to find itself, when gravity, weight and heat polarise fields of vision. The objects observe each other, they flirt with the organic and inorganic to investigate structural limits through the effects of time, temperature and balance. - Nick Paton
I asked Nick Paton, whose work, although very different from my own, shares a lot of the same themes. From worldbuilding to stages, folklore and ecology. Nick's work is delicate, mischievous and thoughtful. I enjoy the way he brings together different materials to compose curious installations. With his titles acting like charms that reveal an occult personal logic. - Jessie Makinson
