User:Niccosta

Nic Costa studied fine art at Maidstone, Ravensbourne, and the Royal College of Art. His career has seen him working as an Experimental Filmmaker, Freelance writer and Antique Dealer and in this field he became an acknowledged world authority on gambling machines. In 1990 he returned to the arts when he became a full time artist and art lecturer. In 2002 he relocated to Cyprus where he founded the tekniart School in Paphos. In May 2006 he took part in master classes given by Professor Vladimir Mogilevtsev of the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. In 2007 he hosted a visit to Cyprus by the internationally famous Guerilla girls. In the same year he was selected to be one of the judges for the UN sponsored Art Attack competition in Cyprus. He currently writes for Arteri magazine and is also co authoring a new book with Freddy Bailey due to be published in New York in 2009 with one of the pioneering manufacturers of the early video game industry. As an artist he has exhibited his work widely. His work has been recently described by a Dutch gallery as “Gripping, challenging and fascinating”, others have described it as disgusting or unfinished. Some years ago his work was included in an exhibition by the Dostoyevsky Foundation in St Petersburg as an example of work that best represented the dark spirit within the author's works. Likewise it was included for exhibition in the Artistic License Gallery in Primrose Hill, London on the theme of the World Wide Web and its undercurrents. An internationally famous spiritual healer once visited an exhibition of his work and left the room in tears. She came back the following day to take photographs.

Artists: NIC COSTA Quote: “It's no use trying to empty a dustbin if there's nothing inside it”

Nic Costa is one of the founders of Idiosynchronism - a new art movement for the 21st century.

In the spring of 2006 Nic Costa and two other Cypriot based artists Emilio Zapotek and Gemimi Puidedacski (Jemima Puddleduck) decided to found a new art movement named Idiosynchronism, based upon the terrible beauty of existence- subjectivity, futility and meaninglessness. There first show was held in Paphos in September 2006 and the new movement was announced by Access Arts in Nicosia in that same month. It has since grown to include 6 artists

Verifiable: Automatic Pleasures 1988 Kevin Francis Publishing London ISBN: 1-870703-00-6 I piaceri Automatici 1992 Facto Edizioni Padua ISBN-108885860176 All My Life…A Showman- Freddy Bailey and Nic Costa due to be published in the US fall 2008 http://www.pennymachines.co.uk/assets/blogimages/AllMyLife.pdf

Access arts Arteri Magazine: http://www.accessarts.com.cy/arteri.htm Articles published there, also announced the birth of Idiosynchronism in September 2006

Undp Art attack judging: http://www.undp-act.org/MAIN/default.aspx?ItemID=259&mid=27&tabid=1