Bringing together two painters who have been working consistently since the dawn of the personal computer age, Obscured By Clouds explores the unresolvable clash between the analogue and digital realms. Together, Fudge and King frame a site-specific exhibition of their respective works that allegorise the crash-site of the contemporary metamodern, framed by the graffitied derelict grandeur of the Observer Building.

Nick Fudge has installed a series of paintings, digital prints, sculptures and time-based digital works. His work explores modernism and postmodernism by rethinking the languages and applications of cubism, abstraction, minimalism, conceptualism, détournement, appropriation, site-specificity and corporate identity. Through his work, Fudge creates both analogue and digital ‘augmented’ spaces analogous to a digital GUI (Graphical User Interface) workspace - the installation itself enacts a processual interface between the modern, the postmodern and the contemporary meta-modern.

Nick Fudge graduated from Goldsmiths University in 1988. Having notoriously destroyed most of his work on the eve of his graduate exhibition, he immediately took a job on the London Underground (in homage to Marcel Duchamp) rather than pursue an art career.  After three months on the London Underground, he emigrated to America. Over the next two decades, Fudge strategised alternatives to the standardized practice of exhibiting (with one exception – a group show curated by Michael Landy at Karsten Schubert in 1992).

Phil King presents a series of collections from his body of work... divided into interrelated sets. The work assembles collections of unlikely re/painted, re/appropriated and sometimes found ‘masterpieces’, that, among other dated fantasies, encompass vast realms of arcadian, hallucinatory appearance. These assembled collections, installed museologically, question the nature of originality and identity in art through the work of a grounded materiality.

After graduating in 1987 from Bath Academy of Art in 1987, Phil King completed his MA at Goldsmiths in 1993 and has recently returned from California. Both artists live and work in Hastings.