If you\u2019ve recently encountered the work of Sam Nicklin, there\u2019s a good chance it\u2019s been his colour coordination series, Colours, which has been receiving much fanfare online. The personal project arose from one of Sam\u2019s core hobbies \u2013 collecting. \u201cMy flat is full to the brim with weird pieces that I\u2019ve collected from all over the world,\u201d he says, \u201ceverywhere from markets to eBay \u2013 you can find a gem anywhere.\u201d The series sees Sam curate this mass of \u201cunlikely\u201d objects into colour coordinated collections, which are then photographed individually before being stitched together to create one very satisfying artwork. He\u2019s done orange, mint green, red, green and pink, but it\u2019s not just about the colour \u2013 it\u2019s about bringing out the unique characteristics and charm of each of the everyday objects. \u201cHonestly I just love looking at objects and capturing how I see them as more than just a \u2018thing\u2019,\u201d Sam says.<\/p>\n
This personal passion bleeds into Sam\u2019s commissioned still life work, where his favourite part of the process is prop-sourcing, slipping those everyday objects in amongst high-fashion wares, like watches (see a Dior watch paired with a crispy stack of onion rings). Tonally, Sam is drawn to vintage print advertising from a bygone era. \u201cThe fonts, the colours and the layouts inspire me, and I feel it\u2019s something modern advertisement doesn\u2019t get quite the same.\u201d Sam\u2019s work certainly wouldn\u2019t be out of place in a double spread of a 70s magazine you\u2019ve just nabbed off eBay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve recently encountered the work of Sam Nicklin, there\u2019s a good chance it\u2019s been his colour coordination…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-98244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}