Gray Nicol works in video, sculpture and performance.
He attended Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland from 1973 to 1977. During this period he made a number of wry and humorous videos marked by the use of his own body and a self-reflexive play with the formats and conventions of his medium. He also undertook a number of performance events which were documented on video including Duck Calling (1978) and Construction of a Cube (1977).