Nicolas Deshayes

Born in France in 1983, Nicolas Deshayes studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London before moving to Dover in Kent. A creator of installations, sculptures, bas-reliefs and images, Nicolas Deshayes is interested in circulation systems, domestic piping, mass production and craft processes.
Deshayes has developed a multi-faceted aesthetic language that sits between two different ways of making: the organic gesture and industrial production. He operates at the threshold of liquid and solid, attentive to the significance of materials as well as to their physical reactions. His works meld the bodily with the mechanics of domestic objects, bringing them together in a relationship that is imbued with ambiguity and humour.