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If you grew up during the 70s, 80s or 90s, you would have used a floppy disk at some point. Be it for your schoolwork or business, the floppy was the most convenient and reliable way to transfer documents from one computer to another.
They are now of course obsolete and many people have them lying around collecting dust it if they havent been thrown away already. But one London based artist has found a use from them and it has turned him from novelty to a world-renowned, sought after artist.
Nick Gentry 32 arranges unwanted floppy disks, VCR tapes and cassettes and paints over them to create stunning art with some pieces selling for over £5000. A piece can range from a single disk to hundreds. A painting called Emulated A used 300 disks to make.
Graduating from Central St Martins, he has exhibited all over the world including New York, France and Germany. He was commissioned by Selfridges last year to create a city landscape for display in their technology hall.
Gentry, through his work is making a point about recycling and how quickly we go through technology and forget it once its no longer useful.
Gentry advertises on his website for people to send in unwanted disks or tapes so they can be used in one of his art work, so if you wish to contribute, vis
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Nick Gentry
British artist from London (born 1980)
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Nick Gentry, at the Collective Memory exhibition in Miami | |
| Born | (1980-05-29) 29 May 1980 (age 44) London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Central St Martins College of Art and Design |
| Known for | Painting, Collage, Found Object, Social Art, Environmentalism |
| Notable work | Design of Desire, Digital Montage Number 3, BIOS |
Nicholas James Gentry (born 29 May 1980) is a British artist from London. Much of his artistic output has been generated with the use of contributed artefacts and materials.[1] He states that through this process "contributor, artist and viewer come closer together". His art is influenced by the development of consumerism, technology, identity and cyberculture in society, with a distinctive focus on obsolete media.
Drawing on recycled and obsolete technological materials as the grounds for his paintings, London-based artist Nick Gentry creates a conversation between digital and analog processes. Gentry constructs his painting supports out of materials such as film negatives, VHS cassettes,[2]X-rays, and floppy disks.[3] "These objects are no longer in the spotlight," the artist has said of floppy disks, "b