A pioneering figure among the Young British Artists (YBAs), Nick Fudge re-emerged in 2015 after a prolonged period of solitary and secretive art-making. Once a protégé of Michael Craig-Martin and Jon Thompson, Fudge infamously destroyed his Goldsmiths work on the eve of his graduation show, moved to the United States and embarked on a postmodern vision quest in the early 1990s.

Fudge's meticulously trained and art-historically informed paintings, drawings, and prints, which improvised on the Renaissance Old Masters, were profoundly transformed by his encounters with the open highways of the American West and Adobe's image editing software designed for the Macintosh Classic II, codenamed 'Montana'. His Apple computers enabled a new post-studio practice in which he spent years integrating the visual architecture of the software programs themselves into his digital objects, which functioned as allegorical framing devices. Fudge reproduced key works of the modernist canon in vector and raster programs, exploring their fractures, erasures, glitches, and rotations.

Throughout his career, Fudge has created thousands of digital objects, only a small percentage of which have been translated into paint or print, preserving their existence beyond the digital realm. His long standing resistance to exhibiting his digital work critiques the rapid pace of digital technologies and the resulting obsolescence of digital objects, ensuring that his tangible objects will endure after the inexorable collapse of the digital matrix.

His art practice is characterized by a deliberate 'delay' in the Duchampian sense, creating a fortress of solitude in cyberspace that allows him to produce asynchronous works. These works exist both in and out of the present, and somehow in the future, reconceptualising Duchamp's thought for the neoliberal digital age from a post-internet perspective.

Nick Fudge's unique blend of traditional and digital art, combined with his commitment to education and innovative use of technology, positions him as a significant and influential figure in the contemporary art world.