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In solidarity and concern.

“Now, Ai Weiwei is being treated by the Chinese police as if he were one more nameless sunflower seed to crush underfoot. An individual of international fame and potent charisma, he seemed unassailable, but presumably that is the point of detaining him – to stamp out the idea that any individual is greater than the law of the state.” Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 4 April 2011.

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My work is an act of defiance.

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Avatar Nick was born in Birmingham, England in 1953 and completed his Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1977 followed by a Fellowship in Painting at Sunderland Polytechnic in 1978.

In 2010 Nick completed a four week residency at the Vermont Studio Center where he produced an exciting body of work, including the expansive "Open-ended."

He has exhibited widely throughout the Caribbean and Europe. His work is included in major public and private collections in Barbados and Europe.

Nick is also a published poet who is represented in several anthologies published by the University of the West Indies and the National Cultural Foundation.

He took up the piano as an adult learner and continues to work at becoming more accomplished.

Nick lives and works in Barbados, Finland and the United Kingdom.

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