Sue Nicholas Studio
My thought pattern themed work deals directly with the energetic consciousness that flows within and around me resulting in intuitively expressed geometric abstraction that deals directly with the development of self as a spiritual journey.
Artist Statement
Sue Nicholas is a fine artist who works in predominantly acrylic painting as well as digital format and print and has a BA Hons Fine Art from Goldsmiths College 1980 where she studied Michael Craig Martins department.
An earlier career in collage/sculpture under her maiden name of Susan Dale is credited in the reference book “Artists in Britain since 1945, volume 1, David Buckman.
Since 2015 she has exhibited extensively regionally in galleries in the U.K. and digitally online. In 2022 she was included in “Curating Futures: Immaterial” virtual exhibition on Instagram by Curators Lois Harkin and Skye Robinson and previously featured in The Huts Magazine “Connectivite” catalogue. Her work featured in “Creative Reactions, Pint of Science” week at Nottingham University 2022, after a collaboration with Anete M. de Oliveira, Professor of Geology at Brazil University, to make a set of eight digital art works for the department’s website in 2021. Her work recently is featured at the Corn Hall Diss Norfolk from 25th February until 25th March 2023 and her digital work will be shown in New York in October this year.
Inspired by scientific investigations of consciousness, the focus on her own “Thought Patterns” allows the development of extensive ranges of pattern variations. Each work materialises intuitive thought processes, playfully developing, colliding and displacing geometrical and optical formats in colour interactions in space. Imaginatively mapping and fabricating her own energetic identity as consciousness in the process. Her existential essay “The I in AI and I Am” on human versus machine consciousness, was published in the Art Journal “Nowadays” 2021.
Sue Nicholas. Recent Exhibitions
2023 “New York, New York, Art on a Loop”, Holy Art Gallery, digital exhibition October.
“From Isolation to Inspiration: Four Female Artists. 25th Feb-25th Mar. The Corn Hall Diss, Norfolk.
“Deep in Thought.” Cista Arts online, February.
2022 Unapologetically Me. Curator Sophie Taylor NUA Curatorial MA. The Space, Sprowston, Norwich 18th-22nd July.
Creative Reactions: Pint of Science U.K., University Nottingham. The Broadway Cinema Nottingham. June 2022
“Print It.” Aire Place Studios Gallery Leeds. Digital & Photography Show – Monday 18th April – Friday 22nd April
Curating Futures: (Im)material. An Instagram Virtual exhibition selected by Curators Lois Emma Harkin/Shannon Skye Robinson. January 2022.
2021 Fronteer Gallery Open, Sheffield. Nov-Dec
‘DwellTimeSpecialCOVID-19Edition’ Facebook
Creative Reactions : Pint of Science Brazil. November/December. A collaboration with geologist Professor Anete M de Oliviera, University of Brazil.
‘Digital Prints’ Aire Place Studios Leeds February & October.
Yare Gallery Summer Open, Great Yarmouth, June. ‘Connectivitie’ Huts Magazine, Instagram May/June
‘Stay Connected’ Virtual Exhibition, April/ May Curator Lois Emma Harkin
The Virus that came to Tea, 23rd March-6th April. Instagram Exhibition. Curator Roisin Delaney.
Published Articles
‘Nowadays’ issue 1, Art Journal. Article ‘The I in AI and I am’, on human vs machine consciousness.
‘Dwell Time Special COVID-19 Edition’, Facebook, online November ‘’The Great Reset” . A personal article on CV19 impacts on mental health.
2020 ‘Out of The Woods’. online exhibition and publication Fronteer Gallery Sheffield
2019. ‘Now, Then’ The Crypt Gallery Norwich
Sue Nicholas, Stephen Carter, Colin Nicholas
‘Interfaces’ Paint Collective. Nunns Yard Gallery, Norwich
2016 ‘Ping’ selector Jeffery Dennis, The Minories Colchester
2015 ‘First Site Open’ Colchester
‘War & Peace’ Undercroft Memorial Space Norwich Curator Gena Ivanov
Biography
1980 BA Hons Fine Art Goldsmiths College
1992 MBA.DIC Imperial College Mgmt School
1986-2010 Senior Manager BT
1996 Year of Engineering Success. Development of concept and brand of ‘Muse-net’ an Interactive Network connecting The National Gallery,British Museum, National Museums of Wales and Northern Ireland, Bradford Film Institute & Liverpool Museum & Galleries in a collaboration to showcase shared themes and objects from curators online.
Nee Susan Dale
1987 ‘Selected Works’ Patricia Knight Gallery Hoxton London
Space Open Studios Dace Rd Hackney Wick London
1986 Artists in Hackney, Hoxton London
Air & Space Benefit Auction, Bonhams Auctioneers London
1985 Ethiopian Famine Appeal Bonhams Auctioneers London
‘Solo Show’ Kingston Polytechnic Exhibition Space
1984 Critics Space 2 ‘Unquiet Studios’ Curator Guy Brett Air Gallery London ‘Various Madness’ Curator Sarah Kent at Ian Birksted Gallery London
1983 Wapping Artists Open Studios Curator Dr Jane Lee
Air & Space Benefit Picture Auction Air Gallery London.
1982 Wapping Artists Open Curator Julia Peyton-Jones
‘SelectedArtistsWapping’MuseedeBeauxArtTourcoingFrance Curators: Julia Peyton-Jones & Art Critic William Packer