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It was a great surprise to find out that writer/artist Nick Bantock has never had a public exhibition of his original art here in Canada. We are putting that right with a show of his paintings, drawings and collages at Performance Works during the Festival.
Readers will be familiar with Nick’s artwork from his books such as the Griffin & Sabine correspondence, The Forgetting Room, The Artful Dodger and The Museum at Purgatory. He uses a multiplicity of artifacts and mediums; his unusual techniques result in images that are eclectic and sometimes eccentric, but always fascinating and phantasmagoric. Take time to look closely at what you’ve previously only seen reproduced in books.
Nick Bantock was born in the UK, trained as a fine artist and started his working life as a book illustrator for some of the large, prestigious British publishing houses. The idea for the Griffin & Sabine books came to Nick one day while collecting his mail. The man next to him received an elegant letter with an exotic stamp and Nick recalls thinking, “Wish I had one of them.” And so Griffin & Sabine were born. Many other books have followed all of them an alchemical marriage of word and image.
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