NICK DE LEÓN

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A Fellow of the Royal College of Art and the Royal Society of Arts, Nick de León currently heads up industry and academic partnerships at the Royal College of Art. Prior to this, he set up and led the Service Design Department at the RCA, where he brought together artists, designers, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to pioneer new models of interdisciplinary innovation, with a special focus on social innovation. De León’s work sits at the intersection between art and science and reflects on the nature of perception: what we choose to see and what we overlook.

De León’s most recent photographic work explores nature, mirrored quite literally in a reflective surface or membrane. These images, first playful and then unsettling, make us question the frameworks through which we perceive and interpret our world. They examine the ecology of systems and how a ripple or distortion in a membrane affects every element that resides within that system. They emphasize our connectedness, not only to each other but as part of a greater, even universal, eco-system, and the consequences of every action we choose or inadvertently make.