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Nic Webb

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  • BIOGRAPHY

    After studying Fine Art at the University of Brighton, Nic Webb spent several years in Cyprus before returning to London to work as a set builder. His studio is now based in the coastal region of East Sussex, UK. His work is at the forefront of British craft and has been exhibited extensively in the UK, as well as in the USA. He has pieces in significant international private collections across the world and has been shown at various international art and design fairs including Design Miami, PAD, FOG and Masterpiece. 
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    Nic carves, scorches, burns, soaks and stains different species of fallen wood to create pieces that explore the natural drama of the material. He responds in a spontaneous, personal way to the individual character of each piece of wood, using intuitive processes to work in dialogue with the timber’s imperfections. He encourages cracks and splits to express themselves on the surface and contrasts areas of natural grain with highly polished smooth exteriors. The artist plays, too, with myriad shapes and forms - classical fluted vessels that swoop in graceful curves; mountainous rugged edges, or undulating dips and folds; and abrupt, angular pieces that openly reveal the artist’s sculpting hand. 

     

    To achieve his powerful works, Nic uses traditional tools, modern methods as well as experimental forms of carving; he explores the natural elements of ice, water and principally fire to shape his work in an unbound and organic manner. Webb comments that, ‘as fire journeys into wood, forms are revealed, briefly seen and quickly disappear. These vessels begin in primitive crudeness, move through varying states of function, and evolve or ‘devolve’ towards a delicate border between existence and absence. On the whole, the fire and the wood burn as they wish. As the piece concludes, I intervene, shepherd and finally halt the progress of loss at the place before all remnants of the journey are gone.’

  • WORKS
    • Nic Webb Oku (Light), 2023 Oak (sand blasted finish)
      Nic Webb
      Oku (Light), 2023
      Oak (sand blasted finish)
    • Nic Webb Oku (Table) , 2023 Oak (raw sand blasted finish)
      Nic Webb
      Oku (Table) , 2023
      Oak (raw sand blasted finish)
    • Nic Webb Oku (chair), 2023
      Nic Webb
      Oku (chair), 2023
    • Nic Webb Komorebi, 2023 Oak
      Nic Webb
      Komorebi, 2023
      Oak
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  • Installation Shots
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Silver Jubilee 'Collections' Exhibition, 2023
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Silver Jubilee 'Collections' Exhibition, 2023
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Eye of the Collector, 2023  Photography from Linda Nylind
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: FOG, 2023
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: FOG, 2023
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: FOG, 2023
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Design Miami, 2022
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: PAD London, 2022
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Masterpiece, 2022
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nic combines traditional tools with modern methods to carve fallen wood into organic yet highly polished, graceful vessels

    Silver Jubilee 'Collections' Exhibition, 2023

  • STORIES

    • The Kumo Pendants - The Making Journey from Physical to Virtual with Nic Webb
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      The Kumo Pendants - The Making Journey from Physical to Virtual with Nic Webb

      Follow Nic Webb and his creative team on their pioneering journey from the visceral world of craft and making to the application of digital and virtual technologies. From mid-journey to...
    • Wood artist Nic Webb on the creative power of accidents
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      Wood artist Nic Webb on the creative power of accidents

      February 25, 2016
      The maker embraces the unexpected when scorching, soaking and staining his wooden vessels. I had some work on show recently. The venue was small, busy and some of the pieces...
    • Nic Webb's sculptural wooden vessels go on display at Hauser & Wirth Somerset
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      Nic Webb's sculptural wooden vessels go on display at Hauser & Wirth Somerset

      June 3, 2020
      R arely have I had such a visceral response to an artwork as when I first saw Nic Webb's creations at Decorex last year. Nic was one of 21 designer-makers...
    • Woodworker Nic Webb on the South Downs hut that offers him stillness, and coffee...
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      Woodworker Nic Webb on the South Downs hut that offers him stillness, and coffee...

      A ‘hole-and-corner’ is an old English term meaning a secret place: somewhere you go to escape the world, to be inspired – to contemplate and create. Where is your ‘hole-and-corner’?...
    • Nic Webb & Corinne Julius
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      Nic Webb & Corinne Julius

      The third in our new series of talks between artist-designer-makers and leading commentators in the craft and design world is with artist Nic Webb and journalist Corinne Julius. They discuss...

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