BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! announced the exhibition Disruption by Nigel Grimmer from 18 February – 15 March 2026 at BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café.
The exhibition features highlights from Grimmer’s series Analogue Disruptions, Collaborative Disruptions, and Material Disruptions.
British photographer Nigel Grimmer is known for using physical props in his work. These props can appear in the photos, be part of the frames, or be attached to the photographs themselves.
Grimmer has moved away from using photography as a method to record the world and our experiences within it. Instead, his practice can be seen as a critical apparatus to examine photography itself, a tool to examine the tool.
Analogue Disruptions is a visual investigation of queer self-representation within social media, specifically dating apps and Instagram. He works with volunteers from these platforms to create portraits. The works playfully disruption the boundaries between analogue and digital media. By obscuring the model’s face, he sets out to critique photographic history and traditional practices.
Collaborative Disruptions sees Grimmer questioning the sole authorship of photographs. He produces works with his models who possess skills that can be utilised in the creative process. In the knitting works, Grimmer collaborates with knitwear designer Daniel James. Grimmer photographs James, James knits the backgrounds and physical interventions that adorn the frames. In recent additions to the series Grimmer creates fantasy collaborations with artists including Piet Mondrian.
Material Disruptions is driven by Grimmer’s desire to put time, labour, and materiality back into a medium that has largely become instantaneous and intangible. He disrupts contemporary digital photographic practices with a range of traditional crafting techniques, such as knitting, collage, pleating and tufting. Grimmer chooses to distort digital photographs never intended to have a physical manifestation, images from social media and dating apps. He highlights the tension between digital and analogue practices, combining methods that take one click with those that take hours of manual labour.
Nigel Grimmer : Disruption
18 February – 15 March 2026
BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café / The Little Black Gallery
30C Warren Street
Fitzrovia, London W1T 5NF
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