Nick Grindrod is a British artist, based in Sheffield. He studied Fine Art at the University of Derby.
Boldly abstract in nature, Grindrod’s paintings skilfully layer strict geometric forms with gestural painterly handling.
Working in intense bursts of activity, initial sketches are adapted and reformed in an instinctive, immediate process. Much of the aesthetic decision making is done in the moment – intuitively working with the paintings in ‘real time’. Consequentially, removal of paint and erasure of marks play just as important a role as the application of paint and this is abundantly clear when we look at the finished works.
“The decisions that are made in the moment can be both rewarding and disappointing but all lead to the truth in the end… I feel that this is the only way that I can truly create something unique“.
The paintings are often overtly playful, but their immediate aesthetic appeal conceals a subtlety and rigorous commitment to a practice that is deeply important to the artist.
Bold, flat, graphic colour fields sit alongside abraded, distressed surfaces. Swift, gestural marks contrast sharp, measured lines.
Grindrod’s innate ability to balance a composition and a palette is such that the completed works are undoubtedly humming and vibrating with an excited energy.
Exhibitions:
2025
Be Nice - Noho Studios, London UK
Colour Rush - Poimena Gallery, Tasmania Australia
A Bell is a Cup Until it is Struck - Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK
2024
Sound & Vision (War Child & Art on the Postcard auction) - 180 Studios, London UK
PLAYGROUND - Coastline Art Gallery, Laguna Beach USA
DONUTS – Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield UK
2023
The Maddox Collection – Maddox Gallery, London UK
Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy of Arts, London UK
M2 – Tom Cox Gallery, London UK
Reimagining Colour – Maddox Gallery, London UK
Contrafibularities – Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield UK
2022
Geometry & Gesture – Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK
Affordable Art Fair – New York USA
2021
New Hue – Galactic Panther, Washington USA
RAW – Tom Cox Gallery, London UK
Edge to Edge – The Cello Factory, London UK
Small Wonders – Well Hung, London UK
ReCultivate – Cultivate Gallery
2020
Why? – Cultivate Gallery
Grey | Gray (Matter): a global and postal social experiment – Divisible Projects & Front Street Arts, Ohio USA
Kite Circus – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield UK
2019
Squaring the Circle – The Circle, Sheffield UK
Prosaic Mosaic – Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK
Object Meditation – AfterNyne Gallery, London UK
Constructs of Colour – The Old Lock-up Gallery, Derbyshire UK
From Brooklyn Works to Brooklynism – Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield UK
Encounters – D Contemporary, London UK
Interdiscursive Non Objective 3 – Galleria Xs, Kielce Poland
Interdiscursive Non-Objective 2 – Galleria Uniwersytecka, Warsaw Poland
Interdiscursive/Non-Objective – Galeria Dzialoñ, Warsaw Poland
Prosaic – The Coterie Gallery, Rotherham UK
Place – Boston Castle, Chesterfield UK
8 Paint – Gage Gallery, Sheffield UK
2018
AbEx – Gallery 35, Sheffield UK
Salon 10 – The Old Lock-up Gallery, Derbyshire UK
2017
For a Burning Love – The Circle, Sheffield UK
It’s Complicated – Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK
2016
What is the Point – The Clerkenwell Gallery, London UK
False Gods – The Holt, Sheffield UK
What is the Point – The Strand Gallery, London UK
The Chaos of Looking – The Circle, Sheffield UK
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