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Nicholas Mortimer

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Nicholas Mortimer

Position

Senior Lecturer in Design

Department

Design

Email

N.Mortimer (@gold.ac.uk)

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

  • This Time Tomorrow Mortimer, Nicholas ; Popper, J; Pestana, M; and Barhad, K. 2016. This Time Tomorrow.

Show/Exhibition

  • Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse 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.
  • Protesteroo Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2019. Protesteroo. In: "Protesteroo", Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom, March - May 2019.

Conference or Workshop Item

  • Birdie Danse Macabre Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2024. 'Birdie Danse Macabre'. In: Birdie Danse Macabre. IASPIS, Sweden 3 February 2024.
  • Shadow Monsters of Modernity 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.
  • Autohoodening Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2019. 'Autohoodening'. In: Autohoodening. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom May - December 2019.

Book Section

  • What is Autohoodening? 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

  • Bexley Responder: A Living Newspaper Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2025. Bexley Responder: A Living Newspaper. In: "Bexley Responder: A Living Newspaper", Bexley Broadway Shopping Centre, United Kingdom, August - December 2025.
  • The Ballad of Renoviction Mortimer, Nicholas ; Macdonald, Dash ; Kargotis, Demitrios; and Dalhqvist, Sebastian. 2024. The Ballad of Renoviction. In: "The Ballad of Renoviction", Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus, Sweden, 14 September 2024.
  • Rave of the Ritualesque 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.

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