Artists
Born 1985 in Manchester England, Steven Nuttall Immigrated to Sydney in 1997. After studying Film and Animation at Sydney Collage of the Arts, Steven moved on to practise in the areas of Illustration, Sculpture and installation art, while maintaining the influences of narrative and characterisation that sprung from early practice in Animated story telling.
My work is often very character oriented, in my practise I aim to create a base world filled with my emotion and philosophy from which springs the characters and environments I depict in my work. The characters represent only selected elements of their world, displaying but fine details belonging a grander vision. Their purpose is to subconsciously urge the viewers reaction towards the real gut emotions and concepts that inspire its world while the viewer is consciously constructing the finer details of the characters story for themselves.
The aesthetics and mediums of my practise are quite varied in order to complement the feeling or concept that I am dealing with at the time. I often feel as though these different approaches are my multiple personalties, each a fractured part of a whole, better equipped to deal with certain inspirational forces alone. However all stem from the same base, the pencil and paper that I favoured most as a child.
Influenced greatly by the Narrative, Romanticism, Fantasy and the Surreal, I have never liked referencing reality directly in my work to make my statement about it; rather I prefer to tickle around the edges of the subconscious, shrouding my works meaning in line, form and colour, occupying the viewers imagination in the liminal while addressing deeper human concerns such as time, death, science and religion subliminally.
