| Nigel Grierson studied Graphic Design at Newcastle Polytechnic and later spent five years at the Royal College of Art in London, undertaking an MA in photography and then an MA in film. He formed 23 Envelope with his former school friend Vaughan Oliver, in 1980, producing record sleeves and posters for the enigmatic 4AD label. He then went on to direct ‘Lonely is an Eyesore’, a compilation video album of 4AD bands ( The Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance etc.).
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| In the Nineties, Nigel worked freelance with suchartists as Tory Amos, Nine Inch Nails and Black. By 1992 he stopped all commercial photography so he could concentrate on directing music videos ( David Sylvian, Robert Plant, Clannad etc.) and TV commercials both in Europe and America for the likes of Volvo, Waste Management, Co-operative Bank, Seiko and Roma perfume. In the meantime Nigel travelled extensively abroad (India, Mexico, Europe), accumulating a large body of reportage photography, resulting in the unpublished monograph, “The Theatre of Space”. He has exhibited this work in Japan and America, and has photographs in the V&A collection in London.
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| In the meantime his early album sleeves under the 23 Envelope banner, have appeared in many international exhibitions and periodicals on the subject and have been acclaimed by t Rick Poyner and Catherine McDermott as being among the most important and influential design of the eighties.
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| In 2000 Nigel began writing screenplays and studying Acting. He also began writing songs which he has performed with his band ‘Newfoundland’. In 2004 - 2006 he contributed various photography reviews to the arts based radio station, Resonance fm, while at the same time, continuing his own work. A series from his new and large- scale color project ‘Iris’ was exhibited at The Craig Krull Gallery in Los Angeles in Spring 2007.
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