about us
About Nicholas A. Ferguson
I paint because I cannot not. I have tried the alternative and it wasn’t pretty.
Every series is an act of looking — at myself, at the people who have moved me, at the places that have made me. The subject, underneath everything, is always the same question: what does it mean to be truly seen? To be fully, perfectly imperfectly human.
I work across paint, poetry, sound and occasional conceptual work — whatever the idea demands. Two decades in branding and marketing taught me how narrative lands on people. I use that knowledge now in the service of emotional truth rather than persuasion.
The collections are chapters — each a different angle on the same obsession: restoring depth in a world that rewards surface.
Two directions. One question.
The series work interrogates from the inside out: a question, an obsession, a lens held up to lived experience until something emerges.
The portraits move the other way: outside in, starting with a person, going looking for their humanity.
The Icons of London are a love letter to this city; but the impulse behind them is universal. Every portrait is the same act: looking at someone long enough to find their spirit. That’s what I bring to every commission.
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Nicholas A. Ferguson is British-Swiss. He has lived in London for over twenty years. His work has been exhibited in London, Berlin and Ibiza and collected internationally.
Made by someone who nearly didn’t make it.
exhibitions
- 2026: Group Show, Icons of London x Hackney, e5 Bakehouse, London (Hackney Art Week)
- 2026: Group Show, including Icons of London — In the Pink, Prokofiev Gallery, London (Hackney Art Week
- 2026: Icons of London — Hackney Preview, Malavenda Café & Bistro, London
- 2026: “Icons of London” part of a group show @ The Art Pavilion, London
- 2025: 'syzygy' solo @ 54 Seymour Villas, london
- 2024: group show @ the ballery, berlin
- 2024: open studio @ GlogauAIR, berlin
- 2023: ‘perspective’ solo @ the Coningsby Gallery, london
- 2022: duo show @ Zari Gallery, london.
- 2021: group show @ Downstairs at the Department Store, london
residencies
- 2025: Casa Rosada, Ibiza
- 2024: jan - march @ GlogauAIR, berlin awards