Nicholas Mortimer’s professional practice has been focused on production design and coordination for Film, Artists projects and Museums. He is the founder of Studio Scenomatic: a production design studio for freelance contracts which undertakes and oversees a wide variety of design briefs ranging from concept development, detailed design to project management. He studied Fine Art Sculpture at the University of Brighton in 2002-2005 and then completed an MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in 2011-2013. He is now a workshop leader and visiting lecturer for the Design Products and Design Interactions MA at the Royal College of Art. Nicholas has worked on many projects including production design for Painter Jonathan Wateridge and production design for the Studio Scenomatic project: Undead Sun, for Jane and Louise Wilson, delivered initially for the Imperial War Museum London.
Nicholas’s work brings together studies of design, culture, media and technology to explore the relationship between perceptions of reality and the blurred boundaries of fact and fiction. Within this enquiry there is particular interest in how narratives can be formed to highlight the way in which technological advancements, both past and present, have operated as catalysts of endeavour, expectation and failure.