Nick Whittle has lived and worked in Barbados since 1979. His practice explores a personal commentary on social, political and intimate concerns. 

His process engages with a stream of consciousness and a sense of play, striving to enter a state of grace. The end result are works unfolding into multiples or sequences. Transitioning between the three-dimensional, works on paper and wall sculptures they incorporate photography, poetry, printmaking, found and commissioned objects, textiles and video. It is a process which has encouraged innovative work.

Walking Barbados' Atlantic shoreline has informed his visual practice and poetry. He writes "This dot of an island has entered me, changed how l think and feel, as only living on an ocean edge can do."

Writing poetry has become an integral part of his practice. Poems can appear on the printed page or be handwritten on the body or both. Text in visual works has always been of interest and is now the foundation of his video work. 

The approach is sometimes metaphorical, physical, or an impetus from memory. On some occasions it is a word which triggers a poem that leads to the visual.

His poetry appears in Poui and Winning Words. He is also a Frank Collymore Literary Prize Winner. His poem Do You Love Me was set to dance for the World Environment Day 2014 Global Celebration Ceremony.

Within his video and sound pieces, poetry provides an entry point into processing complex ideas of memory, colonialism, healing and geographies including the sea and the land. He explores these themes whilst inscribing the image of self into such histories, encouraging a connection between the private and public worlds of the artist. 

His most recent work is a meditation on the contested relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean, a narrative, which speaks of slavery and empire.