Nicole Price
Nicole Price’s recent 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.
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 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. She has work in private and public collections including the Whittington Health NHS Trust. Nicole lives and works in London.
