About
Nick Malyon has been producing neon art and sculptures since 1993. Inspired by a trip to America in his early twenties, he returned to the U.K. and spent three months working in a sign factory in Wembley. A six month neon course followed, after which he spent several years working for various neon shops in London.
Now based in a studio in Farnham, Surrey he designs and manufactures neon signs for a host of establishments using a traditional process whereby glass tubing, usually from Italy, is bent under a hot flame. “Initially, my work was suppling commercial sign work to well-known high street shops and businesses, then throughout the 1990’s, it began to encompass television, film and exhibition work too,” he explains. “The advent of the LED in the early 2000s stripped away a vast amount of work and caused the closure of many neon shops but around 2005, by a quirk of fate, I became involved with a neon project for the artist Cerith Wyn Evans through White Cube gallery. This led to an enormously varied and interesting career making and installing neon pieces for artists around the world.”
Now, Nick is regularly commissioned by galleries and museums and his work has been displayed at the Tate Modern, the Royal Academy, White Cube, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and at the Venice Biennale.
Having never exhibited at Craft Week before, for the Vintage Supermarket he will be creating a selection of three-dimensional neon cheeses. “Anything three dimensional in a two-dimensional medium is exciting to make,” he says. “Most importantly, it’s a real challenge.”
