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INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES
BOLD JOURNEY INTERVIEW - MEET NIC MAC
We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Nic Mac a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below….
CNBC Interview
How Brands and top artists collaborate
Publicis Sapient has commissioned a new piece of art to hang in its offices. CNBC’s Tania Bryer meets the artist, Nic Mac, to find out more.
IS AI an Artist? by Nic Mac (2022)
An AI-generated piece just won first place in the art competition at Colorado State Fair cementing many artists’ fears of being replaced by rapidly developing technology. However, illustrator Nic Mac wants to remind us of the value of human art, which remains a unique expression of the soul through an authentic creative process….
BLUP 50 TALENT FEATURE
Predominantly known to be a digital artist Nic has also recently developed and explored other creative avenues such as Murals, Street art, Videos and comics.
Anna-Marie caught up with Nic to discover she also does some poetry too…we hope to see her involving this more into her artwork now as she shares more of the upcoming things she has in store.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND WORKING WITH BRANDS IN 2022 – WITH ILLUSTRATOR NIC MAC
SOCIAL MEDIA AND BRANDS
A significant amount of Nic Mac’s talk with us centred around the ways in which she tackles social media, including her freelance work with brands. For beginners who are looking to gain some working experience, Mac suggests seeking and entering competitions to get your name out there. Using her collaboration with Cano Water as an example, Mac highlights the importance of just ‘going for it’……
Meet Nic Mac | Illustrator and Mural Artist
2021
Hi Nic, what is the most important factor behind your success?
Success, is such a funny thing, for it is something that will never mean, just one thing or one goal, to any one person. It is individual, even though the external world will try to tell us different. But, in what “success” means to me, which is to find happiness and contentment in all that I do, then I think the most important factor….
Fulham Town Hall Exhibition Interview with Stööki 2021
Tell us about your work in this exhibition and the inspiration?
I focus on the theme of mental health a lot of the time, as that’s the main subject that I like to communicate the most. I want to spread positivity but also share and showcase the darker and more negative aspects, as I feel that we generally hide that side of things too much and it needs to stop…
Nic Mac Talks Comics and Mental Health Awareness, and Social Commentary in Illustration 2020
In today’s latest interview in our 2020 ‘Six to Watch’ series we also have some sneak peeks at the upcoming prequel to Ømit. Solace will again feature the same character, one who is deliberately designed to be a universal entity that everyone can relate to. Nic and I chat about comics and mental health awareness, connecting with new audiences, and her signature mix of illustration and social commentary…
Leading London cocktail bars and top creative talent are wrestling their demons in a unique project raising awareness for mental health - We HEART 2020
Combining the efforts and talents of seven foodies—including chef Andrew Clarke of Mental Health campaign Pilot Light and Sally Abe, who won Gastropub Chef of the Year—each will go on to share their ‘demons’ with creative talent such as Nic Mac, who is responsible for the excellent lead image,….
“Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2020”
- Broken Frontier
NIC MAC- I knew in January 2019 when she was a guest artist at the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw that I wanted Nic Mac on the next ‘Six to Watch’ list. I’ve never decided that far in advance before but her comic zine ØMIT – which explores issues of anxiety and depression through the visual metaphor of a protagonist who has a house for a head – just screamed “unique new voice” at me…
Story teller - 插畫師 Nic Mac - Interview 2019
How long have you been drawing? Beside illustration, do you work on other projects?
At the moment most of my other projects still revolve around illustration in some way apart from writing, which is predominantly a hobby of mine, though I have been slowly incorporating it within my work, such as a series of poetic Zines I’m working on that explore mental health…
The YAK Magazine - 2019 - Cover image and interview
Wave to Nic Mac - The Yak caught up with illustrator Nic Mac – who designed the front cover image for Yak #62 – to talk influencers and background checks. Go…
Making Waves - Nic Mac talks to us about her artwork - Be Kind Magazine
Tell us about your path into illustration? I suppose I’d call the ‘path’, an inevitable one really. Drawing was my default and art was the only thing I would lookforward to in school. Every other step and landmark that I reached along the path was fuelled by the need to follow anything that allowed me to do that.
Nic Mac Uses Dreamlike Visual Metaphor to Explore Living with Depression and Anxiety in this Tactile, Fold-Out Zine - Broken Frontier
Nic Mac’s zine ØMIT makes use of extended visual metaphor to frame her protagonist’s life in surreal yet eerily recognisable terms. We first meet the comic’s narrator – a young woman with a house for a head – lying unconscious on wasteland. We observe as she slowly struggles to traverse this unwelcoming terrain….
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Artist Nic Mac Discusses That Wave With Us
…We discovered the work of illustrator Nic Mac, who has reimagined Hokusai’s classic, ‘The Great Wave.’ With Mac’s approach a more realistic, up-to-date take on the original, it is aptly entitled, ‘The Great Plastic Wave.’ Wanting to know more about the origins of the piece and the artist herself, we recently caught up with Nic to discuss what inspires her as an artist and why she thinks the medium of art can be so powerful at conveying such important messages….
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ARTIST, NIC MAC
We caught up with Nic Mac an illustrative artist whose art focuses on important topics in todays modern society like Technology, the Environment and Mental Health. To discuss her views on the environment and her interpretation of ‘The Great Wave’ as ‘The Great Plastic Wave.’..