Selected features

  • Nick Gentry art in Galerie Magazine

    Galerie Magazine | feature

    In a new body of arresting assemblage paintings for the exhibition Skin Deep, uses crowd-sourced VHS tapes as the grounds for extraordinarily realistic portraits of cyborg sensations.

    Read article here

  • Nick Gentry artwork on Colossal

    Colossal | feature

    The artist invites questions that are uniquely contemporary, asking about performance and presentation on the internet, increasingly artificial standards of beauty, and the instability of memory.

    See the article here

  • BBC Radio 4 Digital Human

    BBC Radio 4 | interview

    What lessons for the future, can we learn from our relationship with an obsolete bit of tech? Aleks seeks out the last people selling, and experimenting with, floppy disks.

    Listen to interview here

  • Nick Gentry on Artnet

    Artnet | feature

    A new Miami exhibition, presented by Robert Fontaine Gallery, pulls back the curtain on Domestic Intimacy. With Work by Larry Clark, Louis Fratino, and Celia Hempto.

    Read article here

  • Floppy disk fever book cover

    Floppy Disk Fever | book

    Floppy Disk Fever explores the curious afterlives of the floppy disk in the twenty-first century by interviewing those involved with the medium today.

    See more about the book here

  • BBC News Nick Gentry

    BBC News | feature

    VHS tapes, floppy disks and cassette tapes are largely redundant. But one artist is making use of these obsolete technologies by turning them into art.

    See article here

  • King & McGaw picture in frame

    King & McGaw | interview

    Artist Nick Gentry is inspired by the impact of internet culture. We talk to him about his experiments with obsolete formats, combining them into figurative forms.

    See article here

  • The Guardian floppy disk art

    The Guardian | feature

    Artist Nick Gentry takes rolls of vintage negatives, piles of long-discarded computer disks and old x-rays … then brings new hi-tech humans to life.

    See article here

  • Nick Gentry TRT2

    TRT2 | interview

    Turkish TV channel TRT2 interviewed Nick in his London studio to talk about how he repurposes outdated technological materials to make his social art.

    Watch the video here

  • WWF Nick Gentry

    WWF | Feature

    Artworks featuring the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous People, by artist Nick Gentry put a spotlight on the amazing connection Indigenous Peoples have with the forest.

    See article here

  • Evening Standard | Feature

    A series of portraits by contemporary artist Nick Gentry, using computer punch cards from the 60s and 70s to tell the stories of frontline NHS workers.

    See article here

  • Forbes Nick Gentry

    Forbes | feature

    Ever wondered what to do with obsolete tech storage items? Nick Gentry turns them into remarkable works of art, hanging in galleries, public settings, and homes across the world.

    See article here

  • Artimage | interview

    Nick Gentry talks to Artimage about finding human connection through artworks, collaborative projects and his latest exhibition; β€˜Human Connection’.

    See interview here

  • Arts in the City | interview

    Nick Gentry sculpts the faces of time on computer diskettes. Can a human being become obsolete? Can portraiture be reinvented? Does painting have a future?

    See interview here

  • ITV | feature

    Artist Nick Gentry is bringing obsolete floppy disks and videotapes into the 21st Century - by transforming them into shimmering portraits. β€˜Human Connection’ at London's Opera Gallery.

    See article here

  • BBC Two | interview

    Nick Gentry and recycled art - introduction. The artist, sitting in his studio surrounded by his artwork, explains how he re-uses outdated technology to create his artwork.

    Watch the video here

  • My Modern Met

    My Modern Met | feature

    Thanks to rapid advances in memory storage, the days of bulky discs and hard drives are over. But what happens to all of the now-obsolete tech items accumulating dust in our homes?

    Read article here

Video and audio clips

Turkish TV channel TRT2 explores reusing obsolete technology to make art

Commented analysis by Opera Gallery

Nick Gentry discusses his solo show β€˜ID Merge’ at Opera Gallery Paris, November 2019

London artist Nick Gentry takes an unconventional approach to portrait creation

Artists Nick Gentry and Hua Tunan, venture into Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary with WWF

β€˜Synthetic Daydreams’ solo exhibition at Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami, USA

Social art from the obsolete by Nick Gentry. Showreel of floppy disk art. Soundtrack: 'Black Milk' by Massive Attack

Nick Gentry introduces his artwork

Taking on the unique challenge of using old floppy disks that he has been sent to create a portrait

Solo Exhibition β€˜Xchange’ at Robert Fontaine Gallery BPTD Production

Solo exhibition at Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami, 2012 - Copyright Florent Garcia

DW featuring British artist Nick Gentry - uses disks as canvases for his creations

β€˜Xchange’ showreel. Social art from the obsolete. Soundtrack: '124' by Photek

@nickgentryart on Instagram

Selected features list

2023

BBC Radio 4

Galerie Magazine

This is Colossal

Artnet

Kottke

Unesco

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2022

Floppy Disk Fever

King & McGaw

NBC

Art in Context

WWF

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2021

WWF

Tusk

Dagens Nyheter

Photographize

Domestika

Wellchild

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2020

TRT2

Evening Standard

Artspace

Art Daily

Artwort

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2019

Arts in the City

Forbes

London Art News

Dacs

Made in Shoreditch

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2018

BBC News

ITV News

Reuters

My Modern Met

Artimage

Tusk Rhino Trail

NBC News

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2017

WWF

Forbes

Channel News Asia

Creative Review

Vice Creators

Unesco Courier

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2016

Konbini

Quiet Lunch

The Art Couch

Art 21 Magazine

Your Creative Push

Pilerats

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2015

Cancer Research

Post Internazionale

Gazete Bilkent

Resource Magazine

Unfinished Man

Nouse

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2014

BBC Two

The Guardian

De Morgen

This is Colossal

55 Pages Magazine

My Modern Met

Euromaxx

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2013

El Pais

La Repubblica

Die Welt

Yahoo News France

Art Investor

Juxtapoz

Miami New Times

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2012

O Globo

Dazed Digital

Huffington Post

Juxtapoz

This is Colossal

Evening Standard

We Heart

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2011

Huffington Post

The Mirror

La Repubblica

Miami New Times

FAD

Indigits

De Morgen magazine

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2010

Daily Telegraph

BBC Brazil

Wired

Artist a Day

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