Nic Gear: Bio/CV
Currently lives and works on the outskirts Nottingham, UK.
A Member of the 'Kith Artists Collective' - [Graduate Artists from UoN] - [Facebook]- Kith Artist Collective
A Member artist of ArtCanOrg www.artcan.org.uk/whats-on-2/ 2020 - Present...
Resident Artist 2024 at The Armitt - Ambleside - The Lake District - UK
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
Solo Shows:
2023 ‘Conversations with Lines’ – Surface Gallery Nottingham [June 2023]
2018 'A Case for Place' Exhibition titled - 'Navigating Edgelands' - The Steel Room Gallery - Brigg
https://gallerysteelrooms.com
Group Exhibitions & Shows:
2024 Armitt Museum Library Gallery – Grasmere – Under the Microscope with Beatrix Potter
2024 Derwent Art Prize – Gallery@OXO - London
2024 Open Exhibition 2024 - The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2023-24 ‘Now & Then’ ArtCanOrg Online Exhibition
2023 Fronteer Gallery Open Exhibition - Sheffield
2023 Kith Group Show - NSA Friar Lane Gallery Nottingham [November]
2023 ‘Conversations’ - Kith Group Show – Surface Gallery Nottingham
2023 Open Exhibition 2023 - The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2023 Cover, Uncover – Group Show, NSA Friar Lane Gallery Nottingham
2023 Contemporary Landscapes - Group Show, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2023 ‘100x100’ – Online Exhibition, BobCat Gallery London
2023 International Postcard Show - Surface Gallery Nottingham
2022 Fronteer Gallery Open Exhibition - Sheffield
2022 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition – The Mall Galleries London
2022 Secret Postcard Show – The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2022 Open Exhibition 2022 - The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2022 Lady Bay Arts Festival – ‘Evanescent’ Group Show – Nottingham
2022 ‘Artivism’ - Online Sculpture Exhibition – ArtCanOrg
2022 ‘Shooting The Light’ – Kith Group Exhibition – Broadway Cinema Nottingham
2022 Second Floor Drawing Open – No Format Gallery London
2022 ‘Abstract’ – Surface Gallery Nottingham
2022 ‘100x100’ – Online Exhibition, BobCat Gallery London
2022 ‘Bid’ – Auction Exhibition The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2021 Fronteer Gallery Open Exhibition - Sheffield
2021 Tarpey Gallery Open Exhibition – Castle Donnington
2021 ‘Notre Temps / Our Time’ – Joint Online Show between La Condamine & ArtCanOrg
2021 ‘Stories 01’ – ArtCanOrg Exhibition at News Building London Bridge
2021 ‘Unity & Lockdown’ – Fronteer Gallery - Sheffield
2021 ‘Crossing the Liminal’ – ArtCanOrg Exhibition at Hampstead Garden Gallery
2021-22 ‘Elevate 03’ – ArtCanOrg Exhibition at the Shard, London
2021-22 'Prelude' - ArtCanOrg Online Exhibition 23rd Feb - 23rd April
2021 Paper Festival - Manchester Central Library - [Cancelled due to the pandemic]
2020/1 Winter Show - The Old Lock Up Gallery - Cromford, Derbys. Dec 2020-Jan 2021
2020 Kith Group Show 'Shooting the Light' - Online October
2020 The Holt Festival – Sir John Hurt Art Prize Exhibition September
2020 Secret Postcard Show – The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2020 Open ISO Show – Online at The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford, Derbys
2020 Surface Gallery – ‘Dot Dot Dash’ – Online Exhibition https://www.surfacegallery.org/dotdot-dash-gallery
2020 HANG Small - The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford, Derbys
2019 Kith Group Show – ‘ Gaps Between Stories’ – West Bridgeford Library, Notts
2019 Kith Group Show – ‘ Gaps Between Stories’ - Broadway Cinema Nottingham
2019 UoN Summer Open Exhibition – Djanogly Gallery UoN.
2019 Kith Group Show – Blue Owl Art Gallery Grantham - http://www.blueowlart.co.uk
2019 Open Exhibition 2019 - The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford, Derbys
2019 Way Making – Gallery Steel Rooms, Brigg,
2012–18 – [15x] Exhibitions around the UK including the Bloomsbury Festival London,
St Johns College Cambridge & the Wordsworth Museum Grasmere.
Awards: Commended at the RBSA Drawing Exhibition 2023 - Birmingham
Winsor Newton Product Prize 2023 at the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters Show - London
Abstract Exhibition Award 2022, for a Solo Show at Surface Gallery Nottingham 2023.
ISO Exhibition - Scarthin Book Prize 2020
Cedric Ford Prize Winner 2012.
Residencies: 2015-16 - One Year Group Residency with 5 other UoN Fine Art Alumni, at the University of Nottingham.
Currently lives and works on the outskirts Nottingham, UK.
A Member of the 'Kith Artists Collective' - [Graduate Artists from UoN] - [Facebook]- Kith Artist Collective
A Member artist of ArtCanOrg www.artcan.org.uk/whats-on-2/ 2020 - Present...
Resident Artist 2024 at The Armitt - Ambleside - The Lake District - UK
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
Solo Shows:
2023 ‘Conversations with Lines’ – Surface Gallery Nottingham [June 2023]
2018 'A Case for Place' Exhibition titled - 'Navigating Edgelands' - The Steel Room Gallery - Brigg
https://gallerysteelrooms.com
Group Exhibitions & Shows:
2024 Armitt Museum Library Gallery – Grasmere – Under the Microscope with Beatrix Potter
2024 Derwent Art Prize – Gallery@OXO - London
2024 Open Exhibition 2024 - The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2023-24 ‘Now & Then’ ArtCanOrg Online Exhibition
2023 Fronteer Gallery Open Exhibition - Sheffield
2023 Kith Group Show - NSA Friar Lane Gallery Nottingham [November]
2023 ‘Conversations’ - Kith Group Show – Surface Gallery Nottingham
2023 Open Exhibition 2023 - The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2023 Cover, Uncover – Group Show, NSA Friar Lane Gallery Nottingham
2023 Contemporary Landscapes - Group Show, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2023 ‘100x100’ – Online Exhibition, BobCat Gallery London
2023 International Postcard Show - Surface Gallery Nottingham
2022 Fronteer Gallery Open Exhibition - Sheffield
2022 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition – The Mall Galleries London
2022 Secret Postcard Show – The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2022 Open Exhibition 2022 - The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2022 Lady Bay Arts Festival – ‘Evanescent’ Group Show – Nottingham
2022 ‘Artivism’ - Online Sculpture Exhibition – ArtCanOrg
2022 ‘Shooting The Light’ – Kith Group Exhibition – Broadway Cinema Nottingham
2022 Second Floor Drawing Open – No Format Gallery London
2022 ‘Abstract’ – Surface Gallery Nottingham
2022 ‘100x100’ – Online Exhibition, BobCat Gallery London
2022 ‘Bid’ – Auction Exhibition The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2021 Fronteer Gallery Open Exhibition - Sheffield
2021 Tarpey Gallery Open Exhibition – Castle Donnington
2021 ‘Notre Temps / Our Time’ – Joint Online Show between La Condamine & ArtCanOrg
2021 ‘Stories 01’ – ArtCanOrg Exhibition at News Building London Bridge
2021 ‘Unity & Lockdown’ – Fronteer Gallery - Sheffield
2021 ‘Crossing the Liminal’ – ArtCanOrg Exhibition at Hampstead Garden Gallery
2021-22 ‘Elevate 03’ – ArtCanOrg Exhibition at the Shard, London
2021-22 'Prelude' - ArtCanOrg Online Exhibition 23rd Feb - 23rd April
2021 Paper Festival - Manchester Central Library - [Cancelled due to the pandemic]
2020/1 Winter Show - The Old Lock Up Gallery - Cromford, Derbys. Dec 2020-Jan 2021
2020 Kith Group Show 'Shooting the Light' - Online October
2020 The Holt Festival – Sir John Hurt Art Prize Exhibition September
2020 Secret Postcard Show – The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford
2020 Open ISO Show – Online at The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford, Derbys
2020 Surface Gallery – ‘Dot Dot Dash’ – Online Exhibition https://www.surfacegallery.org/dotdot-dash-gallery
2020 HANG Small - The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford, Derbys
2019 Kith Group Show – ‘ Gaps Between Stories’ – West Bridgeford Library, Notts
2019 Kith Group Show – ‘ Gaps Between Stories’ - Broadway Cinema Nottingham
2019 UoN Summer Open Exhibition – Djanogly Gallery UoN.
2019 Kith Group Show – Blue Owl Art Gallery Grantham - http://www.blueowlart.co.uk
2019 Open Exhibition 2019 - The Old Lock Up Gallery Cromford, Derbys
2019 Way Making – Gallery Steel Rooms, Brigg,
2012–18 – [15x] Exhibitions around the UK including the Bloomsbury Festival London,
St Johns College Cambridge & the Wordsworth Museum Grasmere.
Awards: Commended at the RBSA Drawing Exhibition 2023 - Birmingham
Winsor Newton Product Prize 2023 at the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters Show - London
Abstract Exhibition Award 2022, for a Solo Show at Surface Gallery Nottingham 2023.
ISO Exhibition - Scarthin Book Prize 2020
Cedric Ford Prize Winner 2012.
Residencies: 2015-16 - One Year Group Residency with 5 other UoN Fine Art Alumni, at the University of Nottingham.