Nicholas Winter Photography

Fragility is what inspires the core of my image making, the main thread that binds. The fragility of everything we experience. This fragility does not need to be obvious but is present in the themes of the work. Fragility is a ‘constant space’, the space between reality and what could be.
Looking below the surface, looking into to what lies behind the ‘first’ layer we see, that which is hidden when not thought of. It is trying to expose the subtleties which lie within this zone. It is a process of subtlety.
Fragility is the opposite of hardness, it is not solid, it is brittle. Within this brittle state, this layer, lies the potential to become aware of vulnerability, the impermanence of existence. My interest (visually) is to create a ‘space’ for fragility to have a clearer presence.

Education and Work

2000-Present
Self employed photographer/artist working on personal projects as well as a focus on portraits, event photography & various commercial shoots.
1995-2000
Photographic assistant to photographers in Switzerland and Finland in the professional commercial field.
1993-1995
Two year diploma course in photography at the Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design, Bournemouth, England.
Completion of a Higher National Diploma.
1991-1993
Two year foundation course at the Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury, England.
Completion of a National Diploma.

Gallery Representation

Galerie Monika Wertheimer
Hohestrasse 134
4104 Oberwil Switzerland
www.galeriewertheimer.ch

 

Art Trope Gallery based in Paris, France
contact@art-trope.com
www.art-tropegallery.com

My representation : www.art-tropegallery.com/artist/nicholas-winter

 

Member of the ‘Vereinigung fotografischer Gestalterinnen’ (Society of Photographic Designers) Switzerland since 2001.

Exhibitions

June 2023 week of Art Basel

February 2023

October 2021
Retrospective: RooM122, Basel. work from the series, ‹Condition, Presence, Forget not, Recollect, Scapes & Nowhere›

Testing Ground, RooM122, Basel. Presentation of new images and photographic objects

 

condition, at Galerie Monika Wertheimer

www.galeriewertheimer.ch

May 2021
Atelier Ouvert, in Salon Hegenheim, showing ‹a box of tricks
www.salonhegenheim.ch
September 2020
participation in the group show ‹with (out) fear›, art from the lockdown, showing the work ‹beneath› and the short film ’spine-cart›. @ voltage, Basel, CH
2018
An exhibition of ‹forget not, recollect› at Galerie Monika Wertheimer.
www.galeriewertheimer.ch
2017
Side Effects 4, Basel, participation in a group show with the series ’nowhere›.
2016
Participation at PhotoBastei2, Zurich. Group show with Galerie Monika Werthheimer, series of new work ‹interpretations16›.
2014
Participation at PhotoBastei, Zurich. Group show with Galerie Monika Werthheimer, series ’nowhere›
2014
’nowhere›. Individual show at Galerie Monika Werthheimer, Oberwil, Switzerland.
2014
‹Pool› shown in Restaurant Balade, Basel.
2012
Group exhibit at ART-KIESWERK with images from the series ‹Pool›, Kunstraum Kieswerk im Dreiländergarten, Weil am Rhein, Germany.
2012
Dialoge am Oberrhein, Breisach, Germany. Exhibition in collaboration with Kunst Verlag Art&Weise.
2012
Participation in the 10 years anniversary show of Galerie Eulenspiegel, Basel.
2011
VOLTASHOW 7, Basel. Represented by Galerie Monika Wertheimer.
2011
‹Nowy Wilanow› represented by curator Zuzana Lapitkova, at ‹Looking East› symposium, Bielefeld, Germany.
2011
Group exhibition ‘instant connections’ at the gallery panoptican, Boston Ma. U.S.A. Polaroid series ‘Pool’.
2010
‘Bilder der aktuellen Vergangenheit’. Series of original polaroids documenting the former port of St. Johann, Basel.
LOLA Quartier Treffpunkt, St. Johann, Basel.
2010
Exhibition of the series SCAPES at the P&F Rauscher Rahmen Atelier, Basel.
2010
‘Pool’ a photographic installation shown in the Cargo Bar, Basel.
2010
Nominated in the category ‘fine arts’ for the EWZ SELECTION 09 Swiss Photography awards with 8 pictures from the series ‘nowy wilanow’.
2010
‘Nowy Wilanow’, Galerie Station 21, Platform für Junge Kunst, Zürich.
2009
‘Nowy Wilanow’, Galerie Monika Wertheimer, Oberwil, Switzerland.
2008
Exhibition of work from Kolmanskop, Namibia, Theater Roxy, Birsfelden.
2007
Exhibition of work from Kolmanskop, Namibia, ’Union’, Basel.
2007
Exhibition of work from Kolmanskop, Namibia, ’Union’, Basel.
2006
Participation in a group exhibition in Galerie Eulenspiegl, Basel.
2006
Individual exhibition of work at Bank Brennwald & Partner Zürich.
2005
«Presence“, Individual exhibition, Galerie Station 21, Platform für Junge Kunst, Zürich.