Nicholas Ferguson born 2 June 1938 in London

London

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, is an artist and Television director

Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

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Education

Ferguson's artistic career started at the Chelsea College of Art

Chelsea College of Art and Design

Chelsea College of Art and Design, the erstwhile Chelsea School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation...

 before moving on to University College London

University College London

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's Slade School of Art. At the Slade he studied under William Coldstream

William Coldstream

Sir William Menzies Coldstream was a British realist painter and a long standing art teacher.-Biography:...

, Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time...

 and Nicholas Georgiadis.

Television

During the 1960s Ferguson worked as an art director for Ready Steady Go!

Ready Steady Go!

Ready Steady Go! or simply RSG! was one of the UK's first rock/pop music TV programmes. It was conceived by Elkan Allan, head of Rediffusion TV. Allan was assisted by record producer/talent manager Vicki Wickham, who became the producer. It was broadcast from August 1963 until December 1966...

, a popular music show broadcast on ITV

ITV

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 made by Associated-Rediffusion

Associated-Rediffusion

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. He then directed Step into Christmas

Step Into Christmas

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 for Elton John and other music videos including Paul McCartney's Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre

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 and David Bowie's Heroes in 1977. Heroes by David Bowie, directed by Nicholas Ferguson. He later went on to direct a number of soap operas including Coronation Street

Coronation Street

Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

, Families

Families (TV series)

Families was a daytime soap opera produced by Granada Television and created by Kay Mellor. It followed two families; the Thompsons, based in Cheshire, England , and the Stevens, living in Sydney, Australia....

, Family Affairs

Family Affairs

Family Affairs was a British soap opera broadcast on Five, from 1997 to 2005. It was the second programme to be broadcast on the channel on 30 March 1997, the channel's launch night...

 and spin-offs from Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks

Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...

, including Hollyoaks Let Loose. He also directed two cult music programmes for Granada Television

Granada Television

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, Marc!

Marc (TV series)

Marc is a British television series presented by T. Rex lead singer Marc Bolan. It was produced in Manchester by Granada Television for the ITV network....

 presented by the musician Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. He is best known as the founder, frontman, lead singer & guitarist for T. Rex, but also a successful solo artist...

 and So It Goes

So It Goes (TV series)

So It Goes was a British TV music show presented by Tony Wilson on Granada Television between 1976 and 1977. It is most famous for showcasing the then burgeoning Punk rock movement...

, fronted by Tony Wilson

Tony Wilson

Anthony Howard Wilson, commonly known as Tony Wilson , was an English record label owner, radio presenter, TV show host, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC....

. As a freelance director Ferguson has worked on many productions within the UK Independent television network.

Fine Art

As well as a televisionist, Ferguson has maintained his personal passion for creating fine art. His rendering of abstract painting has been exhibited numerously since leaving college.

Sources

Nicholas Ferguson's Art Site
Imdb notation of Ferguson's TV work