Nicole Price’s work centres on memory and the object; the emotional legacy and associations that everyday things hold. She has a particular interest in the things we collect and that accumulate around us.
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Nicole talks of having countless collected and inherited things that can be seen, touched and that hold memories. They open doors to another time; occasions, people and places. These are 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 everyday 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 all this stuff and the frantic culture of acquisition. Nicole enjoys humour in the juxtaposition of objects: cats sit by cockerels, Toby Jugs below walruses and princesses dance on teapots. As she paints the collections grow, this irony is not lost on her.
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Biography
Nicole studied at Leeds University, Heatherley’s, and Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL) for her MFA and more recently on the Turps Banana Studio Painting Programme. Her work has been exhibited regularly in group exhibitions, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the RWA, the SWA, the Lynn Painter–Stainers and the ING Discerning Eye. She was a shortlisted finalist for the 2019 Ingram Prize .Her work is shown regularly at Tregony Gallery in Cornwall and London. She has work in private and public collections including the Whittington Health NHS Trust.
Nicole lives and works in London.
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