by Rick Warden

Monday 11 April – Saturday 14 May

Artist and actor Rick Warden presents his first exhibition in the Tricycle gallery.

Several summers ago Rick Warden pictured an image of a top trump card he’d coveted as a child in the playground. The memory grew into an obsession and set into motion the creation of the first part of Warden’s exhibition. NOSTALGICart is the seeking out, preservation, and glorification of his first ever attempt at art collecting. More than thirty years on it is the belated ownership of sets he dreamt of completing.
 
Alongside this, Warden presents a selection of his recent DigiPics. In 2001 the director Charles Sturridge asked all the actors in Shackleton to make a diary of their experiences shooting the drama in the Arctic Circle. Warden drew more than he wrote and has continued to draw whilst on set and in rehearsals ever since. What started out as biro scribbles then moved through watercolours to finger drawings, or DigiPics, on his iPhone. Rick was one of the ensemble cast of The Great Game: Afghanistan and whilst the production was touring America in 2010 Rick posted some of his sketches as his contribution to the Tricycle Blog. It was from this that his current exhibition of DigiPics was born.