Nicholas Cheveldave’s work moves through the spaces where images are made, traded, and absorbed. Drawing from photography, painting, 3D rendering, and sculpture, his collages and assemblages form dense visual fields where personal photographs collide with images pulled from the everyday circulation of consumer culture.

Cheveldave gathers fragments from digital marketplaces, social media feeds, and commuter newspapers, folding them into his own imagery. These layered surfaces echo the way identity is assembled today—sourced, edited, and performed in public view. The works feel like moments caught mid-transmission, where private experience and mass-produced imagery blur into one another.

At the center of Cheveldave’s practice is an attention to how contemporary identity is shaped by systems of visibility and exchange. His images reflect the pressure to craft oneself as an image to be seen and consumed, while revealing the fractures, excesses, and ambiguities this process leaves behind. In Cheveldave’s hands, collage becomes both a method and a metaphor for the self as layered, mediated, and perpetually in flux.