I’m interested in how digital and physical media can carry traces of their own making — how systems, repetition, and transformation become part of a material’s history.

—Nick Fudge

Nick Fudge (b. 1961) is a British artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, and digital art, exploring the boundary between traditional making and the evolving landscape of media and technology. Often described as a pioneer in digital materialism, Fudge’s practice investigates how digital and analog processes hold memory, accumulate edits, and embody recurring patterns that blur the lines between the fabricated and the found. His work considers how the repeated act of mark-making embeds traces of past decisions into the surface of an artwork, allowing the viewer to sense a work’s history in its present state.

Trained at Goldsmiths College in London and later at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Fudge emerged alongside figures of the Young British Artists generation before withdrawing from the public art world for decades. This period of private development allowed him to refine a hybrid artistic language that bridges the tactile instincts of painting with the recursive possibilities of digital creation. His paintings often reinterpret modernist forms through a contemporary lens, while his digital works remain intentionally editable, resisting finality and suggesting that material memory is not fixed but perpetually rewritten.

Fudge’s sculptures and installations further expand this inquiry, occupying a space where surface, form, and process intersect. His approach is informed by a deep engagement with art history and by an ongoing interest in how repetition and transformation can generate new visual vocabularies. Across media, his work prompts viewers to consider how materials retain the imprint of decisions, gestures, and time itself.

Fudge’s work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group contexts, including exhibitions in London, Berlin, and at digital platforms that reflect his hybrid practice. He lives and works in Lisbon, where his ongoing explorations continue to challenge the boundaries between analog presence and digital trace.