Introduction
Born: UK 1975. Living and working in UK.
Nirmal Singh Dhiman is a (culturally diverse) visual artist, illustrator and designer based in Crawley, West Sussex, UK, who works on award winning interactive design and websites, illustration projects, sequential art / comics / graphic stories, animation/ motion graphics, photography, design for print, vector/bitmap image making and typeface design:
In particular, I like to make drawings and paintings using watercolour, gouache, inks, collage, letraset, found elements, verse or prose, as well as with various electronic means.
In 1996, I found an unused diary from 1969. In which I started to make a drawing a day, a process which evolved into a drawing about that day's experiences - a project that I have been working on ever since.
Now that the project has over ten years worth of work (in excess of 4000 drawings). I am looking to exhibit the drawings. In the two years since ive started to exhibit the work, the diaries have already been shown on BBC television, radio and on various internet sites.
At work, I am an interactive and graphic designer, where my duties include project management, design, construction, and the updating of Sites, email communications, banners/overlays, animations, interactive games, CD-ROMs and printed matter for a variety of clients (small to medium to global corporations).
I am able to use a wide range of creative and office productivity software suites to produce a variety of internet and print based design, including formats and technologies such as flash, html, css, javascript, dhtml, asp, mov and pdf.
Artist statement
In 1996, I found an unused diary from 1969. In it, I started to make a drawing a day, a process which evolved into a drawing about that day’s experiences.
This project has since formed the core basis of all my work and has grown into a daily ritual. Currently spanning over 4,000 entries, the visual diaries have become a personal archive of moments, meta-content and ideas.
The day’s pivotal moments and experiences are documented and distilled, social interactions are captured and explored. Stories and narratives form and interweave with dreams and memories. Real life news and popular culture contextualise and date-stamp the daily entries.
Every entry is complete in itself and is usually made using watercolour, inks, pencils, collage or relevant media from that day, poetry, prose and even parking tickets.
Colours, tones, lines and words describe the moment. Spatial relationships, proximities and time-lines attempt to hide/reveal what happened. Sometimes past events echo and manifest themselves again in future entries. Often parts of yesterday’s entry come through the paper and become intrinsic to the next day’s work.
Working in the diaries has helped me to explore my place in the world as well as perceptions and representations of the things and events that are around me. It has allowed me to reflect of living in England, learn of my (Punjabi) background and of where I might be heading.
Recent travels to India have shown me new ceremonies, traditions and experiences which I am finding are slowly filtering in to my work and are adding a different dimension to my understanding of the world.
These cross-cultural, journalistic works have been described as modern day British-Indian miniature paintings.
Related works include alternative versions, re-imaginings and re-interpretations as sequntial art.. Derived works are made using painted, drawn, written and computer-generated/scanned and photographic methods.
Nirmal has work and commissions for nirmal dhiman - commssioned work by nirmal dhiman - please get in touch is various private, corporate and educational collections. He is also an accomplished and award-winning interactive / graphic designer and illustrator.
The diaries have recently been shown on BBC television, radio and on internet sites.
Work
- June 1998 - Current:
Visual artist illustrator interactive designer - www.nirm.co.uk
- June 2006 - Current: Senior web designer based at The Unit, Brighton
- January 2001 - June 2006: Senior web designer based at Blaze Design, Tunbridge Wells
- December 1999 - January 2001 Web designer based in Brighton
- April 1999 - November 1999 - Print designer Based at Bay Studios, Littlehampton
Education
- September 1994 - July 1998
Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone Campus:
BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Graphic Design/Illustration
(now University College for the Creative Arts) - September 1993 - July 1994
Northbrook College of Art and Design, Horsham Campus:
BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies for Art and Design - September 1991 - July 1993
Ifield Community College Sixth Form: A-Level Education -
September 1987 - July 1991
Ifield Community College: GCSE Education -
September 198? - July 1987
Langley Green Middle School -
September 198? - July 198?
Langley Green First School
Exhibitions
Press
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