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Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave aka Nick Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, composer, visual artist and occasional actor.

Nick Cave on his art: I am essentially a songwriter. Yet, people who understand my stuff know that it doesn’t end there. There has always been a strong, even obsessive, visual component to the process of songwriting—a compulsive rendering of the lyric as a thing to be seen, to be touched, to be examined. I have always done this—basically drawn my songs—for as long as I’ve been writing them. The art works are the incidental residue of an over-stimulated mind—situated beyond merchandise but before art. When the pressure of songwriting gets too much, well, I draw a cute animal or a naked woman or a religious icon or a mythological creature or something. Or I take a Polaroid, or make something out of clay. I do a collage, or write a child’s poem and date stamp and sticker it, or do some granny-art with a set of watercolour paints.