Nick Birch - Visual Art

VISUAL ART

System Error

120 x 90 cm
Acrylic on canvas

This piece explores a system trying to function but not quite holding together. It suggests structure and order, yet nothing fully aligns. Elements repeat, shift and break, as if attempting to organise themselves while slowly coming undone. Blocks overlap, disappear and re-emerge, carrying traces of information that feel incomplete or interrupted. What first appears stable becomes increasingly uncertain. The work sits between control and failure, capturing a state that is not collapsing, but never fully resolving.

Exhibiting at the 2026 Recovered Futures Art Exhibition.

Gathering Noise

50 x 40 cm
Acrylic on canvas

This piece explores what it feels like when sound, thought and sensation blur together. Music becomes colour, shape and movement, breaking apart and reforming across the canvas. Fragments collide, overlap and compete for space, reflecting the challenge of making sense of multiple thoughts at once. There is an effort to find structure, but it never fully settles. The work sits between order and overwhelm, capturing a moment of intense perception and the attempt to remain present within it.

Exhibiting at the 2026 Recovered Futures Art Exhibition.

RICHMOND FELLOWSHIP RECOVERED FUTURES ART EXHIBITION

Recovered Futures is a curated art exhibition that shares creative works by artists with lived experience of mental health recovery.

The exhibition creates space for personal stories, reflection, and dialogue through visual art, offering audiences an opportunity to engage with recovery as a lived, creative, and human experience.

Recovered Futures is hosted by Richmond Fellowship Queensland as part of its commitment to amplifying lived experience voices through community and cultural initiatives.