Nic Gear: Bio/CV
Currently lives and works near Nottingham, UK.
Associate Artist with Backlit Gallery Nottingham – http://backlit.org.uk
A member of the 'Kith' Artists Group - [Graduate Artists from UoN]
Education:
MA Fine Art (Distinction)
Registered Project [titled - ‘Walking the past in the present, influencing the future’]- Nottingham Trent University 2015
BA Honours Fine Arts (First) - University of Nottingham 2013
Group Exhibitions & Shows:
2017 'Kith & Kin' Exhibition - Group Show of the UoN Art Graduates 'Kith' - 18th - 22nd Oct at Malt Cross Nottingham
2017 THiNK Nottingham - Summer Open Exhibition - 27th July - 3rd Sept.
http://www.thinkinng.org
2017 'Stimulus' Exhibition - Art Number 23 - Menier Gallery London - 1st - 5th August.
http://www.meniergallery.co.uk/Menier_Gallery/Home.html
2017 ‘Telling in Full’ Exhibition – Lancaster Words Festival - 6th - 8th July
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancaster-words/ ‘Catching Words’ Installation work.
2017 ‘Draw The Line’ Exhibition – Surface Gallery, Nottingham, April.
2016 Bloomsbury Festival, London, October 2016, www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk
‘Catching Words’ Installation work (a satellite site for Art:Language:Location, Cambridge 2016).
Resident Artists & Degree Students Exhibition at the Djanogly Gallery,
University of Nottingham, June 2016.
Backlit Gallery Group Show – ‘Mass’ - Feb 2016.
2015 Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, Cumbria, September 2015:
‘Catching Words’ Installation work (a satellite site for Art:Language:Location, Cambridge 2015).
Nottingham Trent University Open Studios, Nottingham, July 2015.
2014 Art:Language:Location – St Johns College Library, Cambridge, October 2014.
2013 Art:Language:Location – Cambridge, October 2013.
Cedric Ford Exhibition – University of Nottingham.
Degree show at the Djanogly Gallery – University of Nottingham.
2012 Cedric Ford Exhibition – University of Nottingham.
Thoresby Hall Open – Nottinghamshire.
‘Walk With Me’ Exhibition – John Lewis Store Nottingham.
Awards:
Cedric Ford Prize Winner 2012.
Residencies:
2015-16 - One Year Group Residency with 5 other UoN Fine Art Alumni, at the University of Nottingham.
