Nick Fudge / 尼克•福吉

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2026 (forthcoming)

Solo exhibition (title TBC), CLC Gallery Venture, 798 Art District, Beijing, China. Curated by 周翊 Zhou Yi.

Panelists Mat Collishaw, Nick Fudge, Terry Flaxton and Sedition CEO Dyl Blaquiere

Mat Collishaw, Nick Fudge and Dyl Blaquiere

Sedition Soirée

October 8–16, 2025 / Art'Otel, 1-3 Rivington St, Hoxton, London, EC2A 3DT.

Private Viewing on 15 October

https://artotel.com/en/hotels/london/hoxton/event/the-sedition-soiree/

The Sedition Soirée presents a curated showcase of groundbreaking digital works by Mat Collishaw, Nick Fudge, and Terry Flaxton. Each artist, with their distinct histories and practices, demonstrates how digital technologies are reshaping the possibilities of artistic expression while extending the radical experimentation that has defined contemporary British art since the 1990s.

Join us on 15th October for the opening night, an intimate gathering of artists, collectors, and visionaries shaping the future of digital art. Hosted in London, this exclusive evening marks the relaunch of Sedition and its new chapter with Muse. Expect curated previews, immersive displays, and meaningful conversations as we celebrate a new era in art and collecting.

The evening also revisits the spirit of the Young British Artists (YBAs), whose fearless innovation reshaped global perceptions of art. Their legacy reverberates in this showcase: the embrace of new mediums, the redefinition of aesthetics, and the willingness to confront urgent cultural and political questions head-on. Some of these trailblazers will join the event as guest speakers, deepening the dialogue between past provocations and future frontiers.

The Artists

Mat Collishaw: A founding member of the YBA movement, Collishaw has consistently harnessed technology to create haunting works that probe morality, mortality, and illusion.

Nick Fudge: Also part of the YBA movement, an artist and theorist, Fudge explores the tensions between painting, digital reproduction, and the aesthetics of error, revealing new ways of seeing through the digital lens.

Terry Flaxton: A pioneer of moving image art, Flaxton’s work interrogates memory, time, and technology, extending video art into immersive digital realms.

Together, these artists illustrate the breadth and vitality of digital practice today, bridging the pioneering energy of the YBA era with the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, immersive environments, and screen-based art

Cubist Guitars in Digital Color Space

Sedition—Saatchi Gallery—Digitalism Art Fair, London

Fudge's third Sedition collection, Cubist Guitars in Digital Color Space launches September 25, 2025.

Cubist Guitars in Digital Color Space. COLLECTION SOLD OUT

Cubist Guitars in Digital Color Space revisits Nick Fudge’s early digital works through the lens of contemporary Gen-AI, creating recursive feedback loops between past and future—where each cycle of reanimation generates unexpected, new outcomes.

Originally based on a 2010s animation featuring nine stylised cubist guitars, the series draws on multiple layers of reference: Picasso’s early modernist guitar constructions, Jasper Johns’s 1960s investigations into the syntax of painting, Warhol’s Pop embrace of mechanical reproduction, and Fudge’s own long-standing engagement with the materiality of digital tools.

Rather than simple updates, these new works operate as re-performances of a digital medium in flux—where AI serves not just as a generator, but as a means of probing how images, styles, and software histories repeat, distort, and evolve across time...

In late 2024, 尼克•福吉 Nick Fudge's intentionally hidden, interventionist, and site-specific artwork was installed in Lop Nor, a region of the Gobi Desert in China.

Curated and organized by 周翊 Zhou Yi.

Hidden from human eyes, deep in the desolate vastness of the Gobi Desert, PataPaint is a hidden sign—a work designed for nowhere and everywhere, at once present and absent. This solar-powered beacon of absurdity thrives where no one dares go, and yet, it signals.

PataPaint is not for conventional art lovers. It is a 'pataphysical work designed to mock and transcend your notions of what art and the artist can be. Created by Nick Fudge, PataPaint expresses ineffable insights of metaphysical intuition and reality-unreality perception.

PataPaint is not productive. Instead, it produces counterproductive improbabilities. In this arid, uninhabitable terrain, PataPaint signals the absurdity of our technological age—a work designed to be used by the mind and yet unrealizable as a standard art product, a lighthouse in a land where even light hesitates to linger.

We invite no one.

半手动时代 Semi-Manual Era

尼克•福吉 Nick Fudge will be exhibiting his work in the upcoming group exhibition, 半手动时代 Semi-Manual Era, at the 闽吴术作 Gravity Art Museum in Beijing, China.

The exhibition will be open from June 29 to September 23, 2024.

It is divided into five sections, each with a different curator: Duan Shaofeng, Feng Xi, Li Jia, Zhou Yi, and Dong Jing, and Miao Zijin.

福吉 Fudge is collaborating with 周翊 Zhou Yi, the curator of the 插电 Unplugged In section.

插电 Unplugged In artists: Chen Ke, Nick Fudge, Gao Ludi, Lao Jiahui, Shang Liang, Song Yonghong, Unmask (Liu Zhan), Wang Yiwei, Yancong, and Zhang Yudong.

Apollo's Decathlon

Fudge's painting PICASSO CO. is included in the Apollo's Decathlon exhibition at the Château de Montsoreau Museum of Contemporary Art in Montsoreau, France.

Curated by Lara Pan in collaboration with the museum.

Fudge is representing Great Britain in the painting category.

June 1–September 30, 2024.

PICASSO CO.

2018-21Oil paint on canvas45.7 x 38.1 cm / 18 x 15 inches

Reframing Modernism in the Digital Age

Read Vladislav Alimpiev's interview with Nick Fudge on Sedition.

Reframing Modernism in the Digital Age,

Published May 3, 2024.

Future Paint: Nick Fudge's Emergence from the Underground

White Hot Magazine's review by of Future Paint by Lara Pan: Future Paint: Nick Fudge's Emergence from the Underground.

May 1, 2024.

Picasso Pizazz on Sedition

Fudge's second Sedition collection, Picasso Pizazz.

Picasso Pizazz collection

Collection launched , May 08, 2024.

In Nick Fudge's Picasso Pizazz collection, the contexts of modernism and postmodernism are introduced through the genre of portraiture, weaving them into our current metamodern discourse on the art of the past in relation to a seemingly technologically determined future. This approach serves to recontextualize the impact of machines on modernist art and values. The collection focuses on two of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Picasso and Duchamp, who had distinctly different attitudes and approaches to the concept and practice of art and machines and machine aesthetics...

Future Paint

Future Paint at Kelly-McKenna Gallery in Spring Lake, New Jersey.

Curated by Nick Fudge

Nick Fudge | Charley Peters | Komply

Apr 11–Jun 2, 2024

Destruction of Appearance on Sedition

Fudge's second Sedition collection, Destruction of Appearance.

Destruction of Appearance

Collection launched , November 15, 2023.

Nick Fudge's collection Destruction of Appearance of five still artworks brings together works from two series that the artist began in 1994 - Drive and Apparitional Appearance.

The Drive series emerged from his extensive travels across America in the 1990s, carrying his digital works on external hard drives. The series explores reproductive media from different eras, often co-existing in a hyper-reality, such as black and white photography, painting, and graphic software, and is represented in this collection by the works Mount Olympia and Reality Drive...