About
Nicholas Delap is a freelance digital artist working with VR, AR, 3D modelling to explore themes of wilderness, re-wilding, and Post-Humanism. Through use of speculative simulation, Delap creates immersive and other-wordly virtual environments, sculptures, and video installations. Most often downloadable to the desktop, Delap’s 3D rendered works materialize as self-contained interactive environments that undermine the traditional boundaries between the human, the natural, and the technological.
Delap has exhibited at @das.bologna with @_metoche / @mock_jungle and @barcuferia with #SiliconValet. He is currently participating in @chaosmagicspace x @omsk_social_club digital residency ‘Spur.’ Past notable works include commissions for UNIQLO, Parklife Festival, Lovebox Festival and works for musicians @ashnikko and @theninthwave_, and designers @drme_studio (Drop Everything Festival Instagram Filter) and @studiomoross (Parklife/Lovebox Instagram Filters). Delap Developed and exhibited in the VR exhibition 'It was a Roadside Picnic', which achieved an Honorary mention at PRIX ARS Electronica 2022.
Most recent works include working with 'Ashnikko' as part of her digital art team, creating music videos, visualisers and promotional materials under Werner Music group.
Exhibitions
Audra Festival - 2023 - Kaunus, LT
It was a Roadside Picnic - Digital Exhibition, Honorary mention at Prix ARS Electronica 2022
Adero - 2022 Vilnius, LT
Barcu Feria - 2020 Silicon Valet collection - Bogotá, Colombia 2020
Cairn - Digital Installation - Silicon Valet LOT residency - Nov 2020
Mock Jungle - Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali - Bologna IT - July/Aug 2020
Epiphyte VR Installation - MsoA Digital Show - Manchester UK - July 2020
Tainted Weeds - ETTO - Rotterdam NL - May 2019
Residencies -
Rupert AEP Program - 2022 - Vilnius, Lithuania
SPUR, 6-month virtual residency run by Chaos Magic, Nottingham and supported by Omsk Social Club and others, part of the selected CORE collective group
Silicon Valet LOT residency - Online platform - November 2020.
Contact - Nicholasdelap@yahoo.co.uk