nirm
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Arts
- Occupation: visual artist / diarist / illustrator / interactive designer
- Location: crawley : west sussex : United Kingdom
About Me
Nirmal Dhiman is an artist, illustrator and designer based in Crawley, West Sussex, UK, who works on award winning interactive design and websites, illustration projects, animation/motion graphics, photography, design for print and typeface design. Nirmal likes to make drawings and paintings using watercolour, gouache, inks, collage, letraset, found elements, verse or prose.
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”Saw ur space@hiphop xhibition &jus wantd 2say thanku. Ur art is simple yet profound & i found it really encouraging & personally touchd me “ “A superb artist, Nirmal really coaleces his being and talent in to his drawing and writing” “...they just don't have your calibre of student anymore, they all just want to work” “Love the way they draw the viewer towards them to discover more.”
Interests
- In 1996
- I found an unused diary from 1969. In it
- I started to make a drawing a day
- a process which evolved into a drawing about that day’s experiences. This project has since formed the core basis of all my work and has grown into a daily ritual. Currently spanning over 4
- 000 entries
- the visual diaries have become a personal archive of moments
- meta-content and ideas. The day’s pivotal moments and experiences are documented and distilled
- social interactions are captured and explored. Stories and narratives form and interweave with dreams and memories. Real life news and popular culture contextualise and date-stamp the daily entries. Every entry is complete in itself and is usually made using watercolour
- inks
- pencils
- collage or relevant media from that day
- poetry
- prose and even parking tickets. Colours
- tones
- lines and words describe the moment. Spatial relationships
- proximities and time-lines attempt to hide/reveal what happened. Sometimes past events echo and manifest themselves again in future entries. Often parts of yesterday’s entry come through the paper and become intrinsic to the next day’s work. Working in the diaries has helped me to explore my place in the world as well as perceptions and representations of the things and events that are around me. It has allowed me to reflect of living in England
- learn of my (Punjabi) background and of where I might be heading. Recent travels to India have shown me new ceremonies
- traditions and experiences which I am finding are slowly filtering in to my work and are adding a different dimension to my understanding of the world. These cross-cultural
- journalistic works have been described as modern day British-Indian miniature paintings. Related works include alternative versions and re-imaginings. Derived works are made using painted
- drawn
- written
- computer-generated/scanned and photographic methods. The diaries have recently been shown on BBC television
- radio and on internet sites.
Favorite Movies
- star wars
- sholay
- deewar
- amar akhbar antony
- carlitos way
- batman begins
- austin powers
- pans labyrinth
- sin city
- enter the dragon
- fists of fury
- big boss
- napoleon dynamite
- terminators
- alien
- matrix
- robocop
- yellow submarine
Favorite Books
- watchmen
- james bond
- dark knight returns
- batman year one
- nirmal singh dhiman visual diary
- kravens last hunt
- arkham asylum
- the killing joke
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Team Members |
| Artbase Apprentices | timstephens sarah owen Shevy Alex Head Zoe veronique maria Sinta Tantra |
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