Current
Making Room, SLAM and Drawing Room Artist Project (March 2024- March 2026)
Community Learning Lecturer, Morley College (since 2019)
My work in textiles and film exists across exhibition, learning and community contexts. In this cross- disciplinary practice there is an ongoing exploration of analogue technologies, which consciously resist digitization. Interested in the discourse between textiles and film and how one process can translate into the other, blurring the relationship between tactile and filmic space. The work steers away from a linear narrative in favour of a poetic and tactile exploration of how we record emotional feelings, exploring themes of architecture and the body through concepts of construction, destruction and repair.
Sharing practice is critical to my work. In the studio I work in drawing, textiles, creative writing and film. Here it is important that the materials I use are accessible and therefore transferable to others, both economically and conceptually. The studio is a space for hands on making, discovery and not knowing, which is directly transferred to my work with marginalised communities that explores methods of making together. The time- based and repetitive nature of studio processes opening up space for conversation, reflection and mindfulness, which itself becomes a creative tool.
Selected Projects
2024 Resist, Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health and Foundling Museum
Navigating My Sea II, Her Centre, Solace and National Maritime Museum, with Stuti Bansal
Filling Gaps, Mind in Camden and Foundling Museum
2023-24 Barham Park Families Flourish, ACAVA
2021 -22 In The Folds, Coram and Foundling Museum
2021 Navigating My Sea, Solace, Her Centre and National Maritime Museum
2020 Making in Isolation, Together, [ SPACE ]
Drawing Act I: Labour, Faith, Exhaustion, The Drawing Room
2018-19 Supersmashers, South London Gallery
Selected Exhibitions:
2024 Lost Mothers, Asociación Alcultura, Algeciras, Spain
Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room, London
Discoveries V, Fiumano Clase, London
Waves, Peckham Pelican, London (solo)
2021 Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London
37th Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2020 Dear World commission, Wellcome centre for neuroimaging, UCL
2019 Survey, G39, Cardiff; Bluecoat, Liverpool & Baltic, Gateshead
Interiors, Compressor Projects, London (Solo)
Mixing Hands Mixing Feet, with the Supersmashers, South London Gallery
2018 INGEST | digest | excrete, with Maria de Lima, [SPACE], London
Survey, Jerwood Visual Arts, London
Little clown, My heart, Arthouse1, London
2017 Sisters, Space In Between, London (Solo)
2016 Girlfriend, with Miroslava Vecerová, The National Gallery, Prague
Rose, Tower, The Kennington Residency, London
2015 Gentle Triggers, I Turn the Images in my Head, Artycok
Caprice, Open Space, Baltimore
2014 Art Projects, The London Art Fair (Solo)
Time Based Media, UCL Art Musuem
Better Than Your Neighbour, Schloss Weisen, Frankfurt
2013 After Work, Locomotion, London (Solo)
Impressions, PAMI, Bold Tendencies, London (Solo)
Hunky Dory, Karlin Studios, Prague
Quantum Leap, Embassy Gallery Edinburgh and Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
You Screen I Screen Unscreen Sunscreen, Library +, London
2012 Same Husband, Space In Between, London (Solo)
A Romance In Two Parts, Galeria Magda Bellotti, Madrid (Solo)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012, ICA; Liverpool Biennial
20 Rue de Jacob, A Salon for Performance and Other Happenings, Galleria Rajatila, Finland
2011 Claire Baily, Nicole Morris, Ben Schumacher, Laure Genillard, London
2010 By Means of Matter, Generator Projects, Dundee
Awards and Residencies:
2023 Artist in Residence, University of Bedfordshire
2022 London Creative Network
2021 Solidarity Fund, Artist’s Union England
2019 OUTPOST Gildengate House Residency
2018-19 JVA Artist Bursary
Artist in Residence, Bow Arts at Woolmore Primary
2018 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England (INGEST / digest / excrete)
Collaborate Residency, Compressor Projects
2017 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England (Sisters)
Family Artist in Residence, Camden Arts Centre
2014-15 Artists in Residence Workshop Program, Tate
2013 Nominated for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women
2012 Boise Travel Scholarship
2011 William Coldstream Prize
Galerie ve Sklepe Residency, Prague, Czech Republic
Littorall Arts- Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn Residency, Lake District
Curatorial Collaborative Projects:
2019 /Digest/, co-curated podcast and publication with contributions from Rae Yen Song, Holly Graham, Hana Janeckova, Maria Farar, Hannah Leighton- Boyce and Sofie Alsbo, Artlicks Weekend Radio
2014 LOCOMOTION co-curated Artist Moving Image Festival including works by Vanalyne Green, Mary Reid Kelley, Jenna Bliss, Lucy Beech, Ben Hagari, James Richards, Juliette Bonneviot, Lars Laumann, Steve Reinke, Emily Wardil, Stuart Middleton, Rachel Reupke and Mirsolava Vecerova
2013 LOCOMOTION co-curated Solo Presentation series with Mark Barker, Anna Bunting-Branch, Alec Kronacker, Terrence McCormack and Edward Thomasson
Artist Led Workshops:
2025 Embroidery and Weaving workshops, BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts
[ SPACE ] Ilford, Family workshop
2024 Contemporary Elders, Focal Point Gallery, Southend
Happening Now, Bow Arts CPD
Flourish, Family Programme, ACAVA (2019-P)
2023 Adult Social Care Away Days, New Town Culture
Local Schools Program, Focal Point Gallery, Southend
2021 Tate Collective, Tate St Ives
2020 Schools’ Programme; Start Programme; Sunday Spot, South London Gallery (2017-20)
PPA and SEND program, Bow Arts (2018-19)
2018-20 Art and Us, MK Gallery
2018 Big Draw, Jerwood Visual Arts
SEND and PPA, Bow Arts (until 2020)
Saturday Art Club, National Maritime Museum (until 2020)
2017 Young Persons Programme, Frieze
Studio Takeover, Camden Arts Centre
Beyond Memories, London Brain Project
2016 Project Visible, Schools and Teachers Workshop, Tate
Big Draw, Schools Workshop, Archer Academy
2015 3D Storytelling with Cinema6, Intergeneration, Flat Time House
Screenings, Performances, Broadcasts and Talks:
2024 Artist talk, Winchester School of Art (BA Fine Art)
Artist in Conversation, Fiumano Clase
2023 Artist talk, University of Bedfordshire (BA Fine Art)
2022 Episode 4, This Thing We Call Art Podcast with Kelly Lloyd
2021 Celebrations and Ceremonies (Making Moments Matter) Podcast, New Town Culture
A Picture of Health: Arts and Children’s Wellbeing Symposium, The Foundling Museum
Vital Signs, Drawing in Uncertain Times, Artist Talk at The Drawing Room
2020 Month screening of Self Diagnose at TACO!
2018 INGEST/ broadcast on RTM.Fm
Modernism: Making, Place and Protest, Symposium at Queen Mary University
2017 Artist talk, Wimbledon College of Art (BA Fine Art)
2016 Open Screening at Whitechapel Gallery
2015 Artist talk, The Slade School of Fine Art (MA Fine Art)
2014 Currency, solo performance at Jerwood Space
Artycok, online Artist Talk
[Again] Conversation #2, Thinking Currency, Artist talk with Alice Martin and Maria Dada at LARC
Artist talk, Central Saint Martins (MA Fine Art)
Pala: Here Is Always Somewhere Else, Manchester Broadcast
2012 The On Switch, Screening at Margaret Street Gallery, London
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Artist Talk, ICA
Lecturing, Producing, Mentoring
2024 Community Learning Lecturer, Morley College (since 2019)
2023 Creative Mentor, New Town Culture
Arts and Wellbeing Manager (interim), Foundling Museum
2019- 2023 Youth Projects Producer, Royal Museums Greenwich
2020 Artist Mentor, South London Gallery
2018- 2020 Artist Tutor, National Saturday Art and Design Club
2012- 2018 BA (hons) and Foundation Fine Art Lecturer, Havering College of FE and HE
Education:
2009-11 MA Fine Art Sculpture, Slade School of Art, London
2005-08 BA Fine Art Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, London
Contact:
contactnicolemorris@gmail.com