Nicolas Canal Tinius, born 1994, is an artist, designer, and researcher with an archival and historiographic focus. After completing a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, and an MPhil in Film and Screen Studies at Cambridge, he was awarded a MEAD Fellowship, which funded a large scale art project investigating collective memory and white supremacy in the US South. Alongside his continuing artistic practice he is building a centre for creative exchange in lower Normandy, which is set to open in 2022.