Nick Livesey

Bio

Nick was the youngest post-graduate at the Royal College of Art for a generation, unusually he went directly to MA from Art School in Somerset without doing a Degree. Whilst at the RCA he resurrected the film society, commissioning weekly film posters by different departments within the college and experimented with the projected medium for personal projects, shooting and splicing montages and reshooting off the screen. These film and video experiments formed Nick’s first showreel which sparked Tony Scott’s commission for ‘The Hunger’, a 15 minute sequence that gained Nick his first Emmy Nomination and signed him as a Director at RIdley Scott Associates. Opening Sequences and poster designs followed for Tony & Ridley Scott, including Gladiator, then Hannibal which won numerous industry awards. He concepted, designed and directed the telephone sequence for Black Hawk Down. In 2001, Nick co-founded ‘The Fireflies’ – a cycle tour from Geneva over the French Alps to the Cannes Festival which has since raised millions for Blood Cancer Charities and franchised successfully to California, New Zealand, and most recently Patagonia. Nick had a solo photographic exhibition PATAGONIA THROUGH A PINHOLE at the Royal Geographical Society, London to mark the bi-centennary of Chilean Independence. Livesey has written and directed Short Films for Rapha, Russian Vogue, and Discovery Channel amongst others. His award winning Commercial work spans the globe from FIFA to Cathay Pacific, Lucozade to Bank of America, Gillette to Toyota, General Motors to Dyson. He has shot many of the world’s most prominent football players including Lionel Messi in his home town of Rosario and in Barcelona, and Cristiano Ronaldo more than once. Nick has directed many of the new product launches for dyson, from the revolutionary Supersonic Hairdyer and relentless Cordless Vaccum to the dynamic Airwrap Hair Curler, from the Corrale Hair Straightener to other upcoming projects please watch this space.