Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part I

About

Nicole Price is a painter living and working in London. Her work centres around memory and the object. She has a particular interest in the everyday things that we collect, acquire, and that accumulate around us and the associations that they hold. For her, they open doors to another time, occasion, people and place; heirlooms that convey a sense of melancholy, loss and longing. These possessions act as familial archives for countless shared experiences, carrying invisible markings from the lives and rituals of our predecessors. Their presence depends on sentimentality. They fight for space in the home, a jostling claustrophobic clutter, that become the stage backdrop to our existence. She paints these as a way of memorialising, whilst losing herself in the shape, pattern and texture of the painting as a way to escape the burden of this stuff, and the frantic culture of acquiring. Nicole enjoys the humour in the juxtaposition of the objects: Cats sit by cockerels, Toby Jugs below walruses and princesses dance over teapots. As she paints the collections grow, the irony is not lost on her.

Education

Leeds University, Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL), Turps Banana Studio Programme.

Select Exhibitions/Awards

Solo Shows

Nicole Price has exhibited regularly in group exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the RWA, the SWA, the Beep Painting Biennial, the Oxmarket Open, the Lynn Painter–Stainers, the ING Discerning Eye and Tregony Contemporary. She was a shortlisted finalist for the 2019 Ingram Prize

Gallery Representation

Tregony Contemporary

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

These paintings are looking at collections. They are objects that are brought together and curated in a home. They highlight the juxtaposition of old and new as well as the souvenir as a reminder of an experience.

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