


Residency at Centro de las Artes San Augustín, (CaSa) Oaxaca, Mexico
03.04.2020February – March 2020
1 month studio residency at CaSa, Oaxaca : an art’s centre in a former 19th century textile mill, transformed by the artist Francisco Toledo and architect Claudia Lopéz Morales in 2006.
Mexico Diary no. 11 : Cactus on coast road, Oaxaca. (Gouache 50x32cm 2020)

Bugs : beauty and danger
10.03.2020
Three Acts and Seven Scenes – a response to Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding
16.01.2020Salisbury Arts Centre (Bedwin St, Salisbury SP1 3UT)
27th January – 28th March 2020
Image – The Horse (2019 oil on linen 118x76cm)

Mariner
18.09.2019
British Museum
31.07.2019The British Museum has acquired a set of my 8 Broadside Etchings for its permanent Print Collection
(Image : Broadsides, shown here in A New Song (To an Old Tune) at the Foundling Museum, London 24th May-1st September 2019 Polymer gravure etchings, edition of 20, each 30x26cm)

RA Summer Exhibition 2019
01.07.2019I’m delighted to have been invited to show Darn (ink, oil and spray paint on linen 182x213cm) in the 251st RA Summer Exhibition 10th June-12th August

Mono : 8th June-14th July 2019 Kestle Barton, Cornwall
17.06.2019Mono is an exhibition of mono prints which I have made over the last 3 years with the help of master printmaker Simon Marsh.
http://www.kestlebarton.co.uk/arts-and-events/nicola-bealing-mono/
(image : An Argument (Since Forgotten) – monoprint 100x80cm)

A New Song (to an Old Tune). Foundling Museum, London 24.5 – 1.9 2019
16.02.2019I’ll be showing new paintings and mono prints made in response to 17/18th century broadside ballads in ‘A New Song (to an Old Tune ‘ at the Foundling Museum, London alongside their major exhibition : ‘Hogarth and the Art of Noise’.
Hold up, my Dear (mono print 80x100cm)

Capital Crime, Matt’s Gallery London
01.08.2018Installation views. (photos courtesy of Matt’s Gallery, London & Jonathan Bassett 2018)

Capital Crime
30.06.2018
Matt’s Gallery, Capital Crime
20.05.2018My show, Capital Crime will be at Matt’s Gallery, London from 6th-15th July 2018.

Od Arts Festival
22.04.2018Rivalry in Somerset….11-13th May 2018 http://www.odartsfestival.co.uk

Bad Gardening – Tremenheere Sculpture Garden 13th May – 11th June
11.04.2017Red Tree with Caterpillars (oil on linen 121x121cm)

Misfits included in Strange Worlds – The Vision of Angela Carter at RWA, Bristol, 10th December 2016 – 19th March 2017
28.11.2016Misfits oil on linen 152x152cm

Death and Circuses – A Personal Response to the Collections and Archives of Helston Museum, Cornwall.
21.07.2016Kettle Barton – 9th July – 4th September 2016
Death and Circuses – Kestle Barton
20.07.2016

Alack, Alas (oil & spray paint on linen 212x152cm), Heraldic Zoo, Pickled (oil & spray paint on linen 152x245cm) with the original ‘An Apprentice, Absconded’ notice and an extract from the records of the Old Cornwall Society, both from the archives of Helston Museum

Capital Crimes in Cornwall – partially Obscured by Honeysuckle (ink & oil on linen 183x183cm) with the List of Executions in Cornwall – 1785-1882 and archive carousel photograph from the archives of Helston Museum

Imagined Portraits of Ann Medlyn (The Absconded Apprentice) installed in the ‘cellar’ – Kestle Barton. (Oil on paper x 20 – each one 76x56cm)
20.07.2016
Death and Circuses at Kestle Barton (www.kestlebarton.co.uk)9th July – 4th September 2016
20.07.2016
Columbia Threadneedle at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence 1st -24th July, 2016
22.06.2016The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2016 @ Palazzo Strozzi
Figurative Art Today
The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2016 @ Palazzo Strozzi
The Strozzina area of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will be hosting The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2016 @ Palazzo Strozzi from 1 to 24 July 2016, an exhibition designed to trigger a debate on contemporary figurative art in the work of forty-six international artists selected to mark the prestigious European award known as the Columbia Threadneedle Prize.
Over forty works of art ranging from paintings and drawings to engravings will be coming together to probe the relationship between art and figuration today, taking a fresh look at such traditional genres as portrait painting, landscape painting and still-life. Addressing this theme inevitably means reflecting on the intrinsic value of the artistic image, playing realism off against the abstract and fostering an in-depth debate on our society today as it sinks beneath the weight of an ever increasing number of images disseminated via the new digital communication media. While artists such as Nicholas Holmes, Coll McDonnell and Stephen Read focus on chance, everyday issues and topics from daily life, exploring and extolling the theme of looking in painting, others such as Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, Nicola Bealing and Laura Smith appear to want to rethink the role of painting as a metaphorical tool of the present, at times in a totally dreamlike vein and at others in a profoundly realistic manner.
Palazzo Strozzi is the second venue to host the eighth edition of the Columbia Threadneedle Prize, an award devised and sponsored by Columbia Threadneedle Investments, a leading global assest manager, as part of the support the company dedicates to culture and the arts. The exhibition was first held at the Mall Galleries in London, running from 3 to 20 February 2016, but Palazzo Strozzi will be the first Italian venue to host this prestigious exhibition.
The Columbia Threadneedle Prize is selected by an illustrious international panel: journalist Emma Crichton-Miller; artist, writer and photographer David Dawson; Tim Knox, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge; Lewis McNaught, Director of Mall Galleries in London; and Arturo Galansino, Director General of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.
The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2016 @ Palazzo Strozzi offers Palazzo Strozzi and Florence a unique opportunity to establish new forms of cooperation and to foster an important moment of exchange and debate on contemporary art at the international level. A rich and varied programme of workshops and activities forming part and parcel of the event will be held in the Strozzina for the entire duration of the exhibition, providing an opportuntiy for reflection on the figurative genre in contemporary art and on the relationship between cultural heritage and the contemporary art scene in Italy today.

9th July – 4th September 2016 Death and Circuses, Kestle Barton, Cornwall
22.06.2016
Opening – 2-5pm Saturday 9th July 2016. Artist’s talk 3pm.
(image – An Escaped Lion – oil and spray paint on aluminium 30x40cm)

Death and Circuses blog
31.01.2016I’ve just launched a blog to tell some of the stories from the Death and Circuses project. Each post will document and illustrate how an individual museum object launched a painting – or in some cases, a whole series of paintings.

Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2016
26.11.2015Trannack Misfits (152x245cm) has been selected for the Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition : 3rd – 20th February 2016, Mall Galleries, London www.columbiathreadneedleprize.com
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National Open Art – Royal College of Art 21st October – 1st November
15.09.2015Swallow Dive (oil on linen 152x121cm)

National Open Art – Royal College of Art 21st October – 1st November
15.09.2015Zebra Head (oil on wood 50x50cm)

‘Death and Circuses’
16.08.2015I’m delighted to have been awarded an Arts Council Grant for my project with Helston Museum Archive : ‘Death and Circuses’.

Death and Circuses – the beginning of a new project to make work in response to the archives of Helston Museum.
11.06.2015
Open Studios – Open CAST
12.05.2015
Tiresias (The Noise of Birds) included in ‘Arboretum, The Art of Trees’ at the RWA, Bristol, 18th December – 8th March
06.12.2014
The National Open Art Competition 2014
07.09.20142 paintings : Gleaners and Infested Carpet will be included in the National Open Art Competition, Somerset House, London 18th September -25th October.

New Painting….
20.07.2014Infested Carpet (oil on linen 152x121cm)

‘The White Hotel’ Gimpel Fils, London 10th July – 22nd August
27.05.2014‘Boiled’ oil on linen 152x121cm

‘Works on Paper’ – Campden Gallery 8th – 30th March 2014.
26.02.2014‘An exhibition of paintings, limited edition prints and drawings by leading, contemporary British artists who produce works on paper as part of their practice.’
Image: Aquarium (monotype and mixed media 56x76cm)
‘Tiresias’ included in : ‘One Hundred Years, One Hundred Works’ at Royal West of England Academy. September 18th – October 28th.
27.09.2013
‘Plague Season’ accepted for the Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries 25th September – 12th October 2013
01.08.2013Image: Plague Season (121x121cm)
