Nick Stewart

London

I've come to the piano relatively late in life. I'm teaching myself and, as yet, am far from professional level. However, I can't help making stuff up - maybe call it composing - and so am putting my "compositions" on here in the hope that, in spite of their limitations and flaws, some of the pleasure I get from them manages to communicate to you the listener. Initially, most of what I put on SoundCloud was exploring possible music for moving image contexts. Increasingly, I am considering music simply for its own sake. I am also collaborating with artist, Simon Morley who lives near the DMZ between north and South Korea, hence our band name: DMZ, https://soundcloud.com/utopiapress Simon does electronics and I contribute piano. For some 40 years Nick Stewart has created exhibitions encompassing drawing, installation, photography, performance, video, film and book publishing. He has exhibited widely in Ireland, UK, Europe, Canada, USA and India. Major exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (1997), Chisenhale Gallery, London (1998) and in Belfast (1996, 2005). He has received awards, residencies and commissions from the Canada Council, British Council, British Film Institute, Arts Council England and the Royal Festival Hall, London. In 2007 he published, No-one’s Not From Everywhere, a two hundred page text and image book, funded by Arts Council England. In 2012 the John Hansard Gallery published, Which is The: 49 Views. In 2017 Nick completed his first feature length film, “… as sure as the rain”, in collaboration with Helen Blejerman. http://assureastherain.com Other moving image works can be seen at, https://vimeo.com/user11338598