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Associate Artist with Backlit Gallery Nottingham UK - Go to Google+ Nick Gear button to view the Photo Albums

Saturday, 19 October 2013

'Lost, Found [lost...?]' in Silver Street Cambridge
My installation work is complete and in situ at Cambridge to go and visit.
The video work and evidence bags are made in a way that the objects, text and images create a visual conversation between each element. 
It's an opportunity to engage in a fresh way with the urban landscape and not just pass straight through it.

Sunday, 13 October 2013


'Lost, Found [lost...?]' comprising of 10 evidence bags and a rolling 3.5 minute video, is ready to go to Cambridge on Thursday 17th October, for A:L:L

The work is being displayed in an office window in Silver St to be viewed from the outside looking in. 
The location gives the work context to consider the value(s) of the objects and text that have been thrown away and that have subsequently been 'discovered again'.

Thursday, 3 October 2013

4 out of the 10 Evidence Bags for A:L:L
13 Evidence Bags have been completed for the A:L:L exhibition; I've just got to edit these down to the best 10, and finish off the video that will accompany the work.
My installation will be on show in the window of the Department of Land Economy, 19 Silver Street, CambridgeCB3 9EP, from the 17th of October until Friday the 1st of November.

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Lost,Found [lost...?] for A:L:L


Step 18 - East Road - 6th September dérive.
The first evidence bag (one of ten) which comprises of
a photo from that step, along with objects within the bag
from the same step, which can be partly seen through the
tracing paper, and in part seen directly through a 
small window in the bag face. 

Tuesday, 10 September 2013


A map just finished taken from my GPS track of the Cambridge dérive completed for my Lost Found [lost...?] project. 

Friday, 6 September 2013

4 photos from the main Cambridge 'derive' N.Gear Sept 2013

The main 'dérive' walk around the streets of Cambridge has just been completed with both text and objects having been gathered over 9264 steps taken over 2 hours and twenty minutes, in the pouring rain.
My 'installation' piece 'Lost, found [lost...?] will emerge from the material collected ready for the Art:Language:Location event starting on the 17th of October. 
The work looks to respond to the value(s) we attribute to the words and objects we ‘lose’ in the landscape, what happens when we ‘find’ them again, and what have we have ‘lost’ of ourselves in the process?

Sunday, 18 August 2013


My first derive of the streets of Cambridge has been completed and some interesting words and associations have already been emerging for my A:L:L project titled 'Lost, found [lost...]'
See the link on the right of this page to keep up with the event taking place all round Cambridge in October.