CV

CV  Nick Bickford 

Since childhood I have been desperate to talk to people but am boring to listen to and don’t write very well. This dilemna has caused some fun but little empathy. Luckily I discovered art and could say what I liked in all sorts of ways. There don’t seem to be any rules for art. Workshops, Exhibitions and events followed from 1991 at which, increasingly, people were staying on to tell me what they thought. My aim is to provoke dialogue, encouraging people to be involved in practical and stimulating events.

My early workshops encouraged explorative work clay culminating, in 2011, with the production of over 200 clay faces by people of all ages gradually evolving in style and emotion over a week. 

Following wrapping the inside of a house and a one man protest about deception through shopping I spent 48 hours on a table in a 2008 music festival. Visitors came to visit me and talk about what they really needed and wanted out of life.

In 2011, I “discovered” a chest full of ceramic object supposedly produced by a civilization that no longer exists. Efforts to interpret these remains and speculation as to how this community developed are included in the booklet “Lala LA Land, A discovery in the English Countryside”  Many objects, such as pictures, tiles and models have been made to increase awareness of Lala LA Land. A model City was built in 2013 supposedly part of an abandoned civilization discovered by downtrodden serfs escaping drudgery as the sole workers in Lala LA Land.

My most recent plan is to take on the role of an old fashioned disgruntled harbour official at Watchet as it attempts to re-establish itself as a container port exporting art works made locally that may be surplus to requirements.