Nicola Malcolm (b. 2000, Southampton) lives and works in London. Her practice involves excavating fleeting images that recur in her life, translating them through drawing, textiles, painting, and installations that incorporate archival ephemera. She is interested in the effect these visual motifs can have on storytelling and defining a sequence of events.
Guided by the tension between the desire to conceal or fictionalise and the impulse to share or document, she retells and abstracts her experiences, indulging in tongue-in-cheek armchair psychoanalysis and "tuning into synchronicities."
Inspired by the lenses of 3D glasses, her drawings frequently use red and blue pencils to express ideas such as portals into different realms, the duality of changing and colliding internal and external states, and her relationship with memory and time
EDUCATION
2019 - 2022
First-Class Honours in BA Fine Art -
Goldsmiths University
2018 - 2019
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design -
Eastleigh College
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Upcoming: 19th July Lewisham Arthouse, London - ‘Queering the Ghost’
James Hatcham Church, London - ‘Idle Hands are the Devil's Plaything’
Open Gallery, London - ‘Leave a Trace’
2023
Whitechapel Gallery, London -
'Gut Feeling - It All Starts with a Thread’
Take Courage Gallery, London - 'Amersham Exhibition 12'
2022
Goldsmiths Degree Show, London - 'The Paper Trick'
Avalon Cafe, London - 'Deptford with Love'
Take Courage Gallery, London - 'Amersham Exhibition 5'
Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany - 'Hamburg with Love'
2021
Someexhibtion.com (Online) - 'SOME Exhibition'
2019
The Alfred Arms, Southampton - 'Freedom Furnished'
RESIDENCYS
2022 Art School Alliance, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
2019 A Space residency, The Alfred Arms, Southampton, UK