Nicholas McLeod
email: nicholasmcleodpainting@gmail.com
Instagram: @nicholas.mcleod
Although my work could be characterised within the genre of still life, the paintings are not necessarily about the objects they depict. To me, the true subject of the paintings, is found somewhere in the space between myself and the object. A space in which the work allows me to mediate my experience of the world and the things within that world, through paint. It is this engagement with the medium that allows me to give form to fleeting and often allusive sensations.
Education:
2014 - 2016 MA Painting, The Slade School of Fine Art, London
2006 - 2009 BA Painting, City and Guilds of London Art School, London
Solo Exhibition:
2011 - 2012 Badlands, EB>Flow Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions:
2023 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
2023 Christie's Charity Auction, Christie's, London
2022 Beep Painting Biennial, Swansea
2019 Still Here, Newington Gallery, London
2019 The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, London
2018 Oriel Davies Open, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales
2017 By Popular Demand, Mall Galleries, London
2016 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2016 Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2015 Imagine (Curated by Alastair Mackinven and Tomma Abts) Londonnewcastle Space, London
2015 Slade Interim Show, The Slade School of Fine Art, London
2012 Volta 8 Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
2012 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
2012 The Threadneedle Space Launch Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2012 Works on Paper, EB>Flow Gallery, London
2011 Crunch Art Fair, Hay-On-Wye, Wales
2011 The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
Grants/Awards:
2011 Visitor’s Choice Award, The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2009 Norman Ackroyd Award for Printmaking
2007 Printmaking Prize For Technical Excellence, City and Guilds of London Art School
Publications:
2014 Imagine Architecture, Gestalten Publishing, Berlin
2014 A Brush With The Real: Contemporary Figurative Painting, Laurence King Publishing, London
2012 Elephant Magazine, Issue 12 (Autumn 2012)
2011 The Threadneedle Prize, Exhibition Catalogue