Richard Nicholson is a visual artist based in Frome, Somerset. His practice examines the ontology of the photographic image and the contingency of phenomenal appearance. He approaches photography as a sustained enquiry, attentive to how images both disclose and withhold the world they depict.
Earlier projects explored the transition from analogue to digital image-making, including a typological series of photographic darkrooms and later commissioned work on the projection box. These works considered the material infrastructures that underpin photographic culture, tracing how technological change reshapes both the production of images and the practices that sustain them.
More recent work has been shaped by his long-term engagement with Buddhist meditation practice. Drawing on teachings on emptiness, his photographs explore what remains when the reflex to grasp, name and stabilise experience is relaxed. Rather than asserting subject or narrative, the images attend to surface, light and spatial indeterminacy. In doing so, they continue an enquiry into how appearance arises — and how it shifts, loosens and falls away.
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