Nigel Wingrove

Nigel Wingrove has worked in publishing, design and film as an art director, director, and, most recently, as a writer, firstly on magazines and as the co-author (with Marc Morris) of The Art of the Nasty (1998, 2010), which looked at the relationship between the packaging of horror films on video, often with violent and exploitative cover art, and the ‘video nasty’ hysteria that gripped the UK in the early 1980s.

Wingrove has also been a champion and opponent of film censorship and has fought the

British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in court on several occasions. He also

famously challenged the UK government and its archaic blasphemy laws at the European

Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. A case supported at the time by the writers

Salmon Rushdie and Fay Weldon, and the film directors Derek Jarman and Michael Winner.