Nicolas Ruston (born 1975) is a British artist, "most recognized for his silicone and mixed media works, which explore the notion of artificial manipulation".
He works in London and Norwich.
Ruston has exhibited internationally and his works are represented in private and corporate collections. He is a lecturer at
Norwich University College of the Arts and is creative director of an advertising agency.
Background
Ruston was born and grew up in North Weald near Epping, Essex. Ruston started painting in 1987, aged 12, and has been exhibiting work since 1996.
Ruston gained a BA in Design Management and Innovation at
De Montfort University
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, Leicester, where he "became fascinated with semiotics and the social theory of advertising and marketing".
His art is informed by his experience in media industries, where image plays an integral part, "his past as a senior media creative and art director, whose job included "recreating the real", has fed into his...work in which he toys with the visual codes of mass media" (Jean-Robert Saintil, Dazed Digital, May 2010). He started as a Head Designer and from there moved into designing movie and pop video props, pre-production artwork, visualisation and graphics. He then entered into the ultimate world of image and manipulation – advertising. He has worked as an Art Director on brands such as
Jaguar cars
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,
Sky Television plc,
Diesel
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clothing,
Barclays
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,
Virgin Group
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and the
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Ruston has said about his own work, that he wants to "illustrate the difference between making love and pornography. I think that is a metaphor for the way people relate to the mass media".