Finn Nichol is a recent graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design, where he was awarded student of the year. He's participated in a number of group shows nationally, including the RDS visual art awards, in which He won the prestigious Taylor Art Prize. Nichols exhibition history also includes two solo screenings, and he's had work shown in Aberdeen, Barcelona and Tokyo.
Nichols practice is a mutli-disciplinary inquiry into storytelling which appraises the absurdity of life in the anthropocene. Ideas from surrealism and the theatre of the absurd are brandished to negotiate meaning in a time defined by mass extinctions and man made climate change. He seeks to construct an alternate set of images for understanding and engaging with such existential ideas.
The work is characterized by cross disciplinary pollination. Sound, animation, painting and sculpture form visions of gothic psychedelia in highly detailed videos while, in mimicry of how stories reoccur across forms in folklore, ideas migrate across songs, illustrations and live performances.
Nichol currently facilitates projects in Youth Reach centers across offaly on a Youth-Arts commision and is collaborating with music generation Laois/Offaly to mount a multimedia children's opera.