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Nick Richards - Etcher (film still). Image courtesy Treetape Images
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Nick Richards - Etcher (film still). Image courtesy Treetape Images
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Nick Richards - Etcher (film still). Image courtesy Treetape Images
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Nick Richards - Etcher (film still). Image courtesy Treetape Images
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Nick Richards, Time Passing, etching, 29 x 18.5cm, 2015. © the artist
Exhibition
Thames-Side Studios Lounge, Unit 0 - Nick Richards: Silent Highway
6 Jan 2017 – 19 Feb 2017
Regular hours
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Thames-Side Studios
- Harrington Way, Warspite Road
- London
England - SE18 5NR
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 161 / 177 / 180 / 472 Bus stops are located; east-bound and west-bound: Woolwich, Warspite Road (6 mins walk)
- North Greenwich (Take the Route Bus 472 towards Thamesmead Town Centre)
- Woolwich Dockyard (8 mins walk) and Charlton (12 mins walk)
About
Nick Richards is a master printmaker, artist and educator based at Thames-Side Studios. He studied Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic and graduated from the RCA in 1986.
The river runs through the work: watching the ebb and flow of the tide on his daily journeys to and from the studio, Nick combines observation with memory and re-imagined motifs. It is the combination of the vernacular and something invented that forms the basis of what he does.
The river is a living thing in a constant state of flux. Its tides reveal glimpses of its past and covers it again, and the sounds along its course point to a time when it was a working river – the voices, machinery, sand ships and river tugs, or the Clipper powering down the channel.
A multiplicity of etching processes drives Nick’s practice. Rather than use hard or soft ground, he will aquatint a plate and bite it. “Because I enjoy the action of the acid I prefer aquatint to mezzotint. I like immersing the plate in the acid and laying on successive aquatints with sugar lift and spit bite, which are both spontaneous techniques.”
— from Nick Richards in conversation with Louise Cattrell.
