Nicholas Mortimer
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Nicholas’s practice explores how reality, its representation and performance can be designed or deployed.
Nicholas Mortimer is a member of Post Workers Theatre, an artist collective formed in 2018 with Dash Macdonald and Demitrios Kargotis. PWT study and update historic workers’ theatre and creative resistance to address inequalities in the contemporary labour market and wider society. Through collective writing, performing, costume and stage production, the collective sets up opportunities for workers and communities to discuss and challenge their conditions and imagine them otherwise.
Alongside working and researching with Postworkers theatre, Nicholas maintains a multi media creative practice, exhibiting and performing widely using scenography, radio, theatre and sound design to explore the construction of narratives surrounding the social, cultural and political effects of technological progress.
Academic qualifications
- MA Design Interactions, Royal College of Art 2013
- BA fine Art Sculpture, University of Brighton 2005
Publications and research outputs
Design
Mortimer, N; Popper, J; Pestana, M and Barhad, K. 2016. This Time Tomorrow.
Show/Exhibition
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2023. Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse. In: "Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse", Maidstone Museum, United Kingdom, 8 February - 17 June 2023.
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2019. Protesteroo. In: "Protesteroo", Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom, March - May 2019.
Conference or Workshop Item
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2024. 'Birdie Danse Macabre'. In: Birdie Danse Macabre. IASPIS, Sweden 3 February 2024.
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2022. 'Shadow Monsters of Modernity'. In: Shadow Monsters of Modernity. Arts Academy, University of Split, Croatia 24-26 November 2022.
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2019. 'Autohoodening'. In: Autohoodening. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom May - December 2019.
Book Section
Frost, James; Kargotis, Demitrios; Macdonald, Dash and Mortimer, Nicholas. 2023. What is Autohoodening? In: James Frost, ed. Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse. Birchington: Ozaru Books, pp. 71-79. ISBN 9781915174062
Performance
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2023. Rave of the Ritualesque. In: "Rave of the Ritualesque: Hospitalityscape", Klub Kotac, Croatia, 22-27 May 2023.
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2022. Slade Green Goes Marching On!. In: "Slade Green Goes Marching On!", Slade Green, United Kingdom, April 2022 - June 2023.
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2021. Autohoodening: The Rise of Captain Swing. In: "Autohoodening: The Rise of Captain Swing", Lulea Arts and Crafts International Bienalle, Sweden, October 2022 - January 2023.
Project
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2018 - Present Post Workers Theatre.
Mortimer, Nicholas and Popper, Joseph. 2014-2018 The Joy of Sets.