Nick Blinko
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- Medium: Ink on paper
Nick Blinko
Nick Blinko has a strong underground following and status both because of his art and for being the lead singer of seminal early punk band Rudimentary Peni. His work has featured in Raw Vision magazine and a number of important outsider art exhibitions. He has also written several books, starting with Primal Screamer which was published in 1995. Primal Screamer is a semi autobiographical novel about a young man and his dealings with psychiatry set in an English village in the 1980's. Nick Blinko has recently had a new book published entitled The Haunted Head.
This will be Nick Blinko's first one man show and a unique opportunity to see his remarkable work of hyper intensity.
'In the case of British artist Nick Blinko (b.1961), who has in the past been hospitalised, the need to make pictures is stronger than the desire for the psychic 'stability' brought by therapeutic drugs which adversely affects his ability to work. These pictures produced in periods when he was not taking medication bring no respite from the psychic torment and delusions from which he suffers. In order to make art, Blinko risks total psychological exposure.'
Colin Rhodes . 'Outsider Art : Spontaneous Alternatives', Thames & Hudson
Comments
Cecilia Montague
These drawings have a dream-like quality. You have an interesting way of describing your visions.
mark lally
i have a nick blinko picture from the very early 80s-an original
ink-from just after he released his first record-when he was
just a punk-i got it off him cos i used to write to his group
rudi-p.
Tamara Groen
As far as I am aware, they are different people. Nicholas Blincoe is an author, critic, screenwriter and a former advisor to Nick Clegg MP.
John Addison
Are Nick Blinko and Nicholas Blincoe the same person?