Nick Paton pocket store, 2025

Born in Edinburgh in 1984, Nick Paton spent five years in the Royal Navy before completing his BA in Photography and Film at Napier University in 2012. Paton then came to sculpture on his MA at City and Guilds London Art School, in 2019. By manipulating various materials through heat, Paton considers ideas of borders through thoughtful and mischievous interactions with objects; he questions the idea of what space is and how we navigate our parameters.

My process in the studio generates objects akin to artefacts. I make, set aside, then use selective processes to reimagine the ways in which objects can be assigned to each other. I predominantly use clay as a core material, it is malleable, can be experimental and at its core it is the elements we stand on.