Small Hours 2024
Ink, pen and charcoal on 160 photographs, animation on small screen video at approx 15cm sq.
Small Hours animation captures, on 160 looped drawings on photographs, the restless and intimate solitude of sleeplessness and the brain in overdrive. Night thinking and the act of drawing both feel magic and ‘other’ . Many of the drawn shapes cross over from other works and delve into the subject of links or synapses firing in the brain, gut feeling from the so called second brain, and brain disease, such as Alzheimers, where a ‘normal’ state is not really at play. Nick Grellier aims to show, in this analogue/digital animation that there can be humour in serious or difficult subjects.
RICHARD
7 projection installation with Anna Cady Chapels of Rest Stroud 2024
For years after Nick’s uncle Richard died in an accident in 1961 his devastated mother visited spiritualist mediums in order to speak to him. She kept notes of these meetings, and a few of his things in a suitcase which was delivered to Nick two years ago with a note: All of these things belonged to Richard. I have cherished them – please you who handle them after me do the same. The yellow sweater and the ties may be taken and used if liked. His Mother.
RICHARD a response by Dr Paul Harper
Dr.Paul Harper lectures in critical and contextual studies and research skills at Middlesex University. He writes about art and craft and has published widely in academic journals, books and artist’s catalogues. In addition to teaching and writing, he has a wide range of experience of working in the arts. His PhD, completed in 2013, examined problems with researching and theorising ‘craft’ and explored a video ethnographic method to aid the understanding of creative practice.
The seven part installation Richard is Nick and film maker, Anna Cady’s response during Stroud Film Festival 2024 at The Chapels of Rest, Stroud Cemetery. The projections form both a whole installation and individual works.
SITTING projection with audio
THE OTHER SIDE projection with sound by Sebastiane Hegarty
Unravelling projection
SEMIOTICS OF HOUSEWORKWORK
(both laughing) collaborative : Nick Grellier and Emily Lucas with film maker Anna Cady at houseworkwork multi-media installation at SITE FESTIVAL 2023.
A woman in her fifties delivers a deadpan performance to camera as she offloads, to a disembodied and demanding hand, the paraphernalia associated with the unending chores of domestic life. An homage to Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen 1975
MASSIVE TOOL
Performance by (both laughing) collaborative Summer 2023.
A woman wearing a belt heavily attached with domestic detritus, which trails awkwardly behind her, walks noisily down the street of her local town wearing a serious expression and walking with purpose. She ignores passersby as she has a serious job to do.
