Artist Profile
Nick Kowalski
Nick Kowalski:
Professor of Visual Arts
Current position/qualifications/credits in here
Artist’s Statement:
I chart fragments of a wider world, taken from my immediate environment. Unlike Kiefer’s sense of the “heroic” in art.
My notion of site is one of the “intimate”, of contact with human presence.
The transitory nature of objects and places represented, support potential for reflection. Images which hover between memory, imagination and fact begin with chance encounters with everyday objects, buildings and places – I elevate the discarded and overlooked.
My work operates within the ambiguity of fact or fiction – representation and recognition, and embodies notions of absence and presence.
Bio:
1956 – Born Blackpool, Lancashire, England
1996-2002 – Teaches at St. Martins University, Lancaster
1996-2003 – Teaches at Lancaster University
2005 to present – Lives and works in Blackpool, BA Fine Art – Course Leader, Blackpool School of Art & Design
Selected One Man Exhibitions:
2009 April – “Portal – Blackpool Vistas Synposium & – Comrades Club, Blackpool
2007 Aug-Sept – “Fact or Fiction” PAD Gallery, Church Street, Preston
2007 June – “TRANS:Formation”, The Gallery in Cork Street, London
2007 Apr-May – “TRANS:Cendence”, Alexandra Gallery, St Martin’s College Campus, Lancaster
2006 Jan – ‘Fabric or Faith’ , Reading Spiritualities Conference, Lancaster University
2005 Dec – Jan 2006 ‘Fabric or Faith’ , Stadt. Galerie-August Everding-Bottrop, Germany
2000 May-July – ‘Mark as Metaphor’ prints and paintings, Grundy Gallery, Blackpool
1995/6 Dec-Jan – ‘Shadowplay’, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
1994 July 3-9 – ‘Traces of the Sea’, Gallery 160, (Irish Sea Arts Festival) Blackpool
1993 Dec-Jan – ‘Recent Works’, Grundy Art Gallery, Queen Street, Blackpool
1987 Oct-Dec – ‘Paint to Paper’, Samules Gallery, Waterbeer Street, Exeter
1982 Feb-March – ‘A Backward Glance’, Grundy Art Gallery, Queen Street, Blackpool
1979 May-July – ‘Images of the Landscape’, Horizon Gallery, Marylebone, London
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009 May – Recent work in FYCreatives
2009 April – “Passage – Blackpool Vistas Synposium& – Comrades Club, Blackpool
2008 May – “Timescapes” – B.A.D (Blackpool Art Department) , Blackpool
2008 April – “Carnivalesque” – Blackpool Vistas – Comrades Club, Blackpool
2007 February – “Post-ed” – Blackpool Vistas – Blackpool
2003 Oct-Dec – Blott II and Comrades – Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
2002 May-July – The Globe Gallery, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Blackpool
1998 May-June – M.A. Final Degree Show, Harris Museum Preston
1987 June – Spacex Gallery, Exeter
1981 June – R.A. Summer Show
1978 May-July – BA Final Degree Show, Norwich School of Art
1977 – Stowells Trophy
1977 – Tolly Cobbold (Southern)
1976 – Winsor and Newton
Special Awards:
1976-1978 – Fischer Brown (Norwich School of Art)
1976-1978 – Winsor & Newton (Commended)
1986-1987 – Designed a book which won the Europe Nostra Award (Switzerland) for Exeter City Council
1987 – Designed and executed mural for Exeter City Council – Newly developed cycle-way
2001-2002 – Artist in Residence (Artist in Art School Scheme), University of Central Lancashire
2001-2003 – Founder member of “Blott” Artist Studio (Professional Artist Studio in Blackpool)
2003 to present – Founder member of “ORB” professional artists studio
Nigel Whiteley:
Professor of Visual Arts at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University.
Professor Nigel Whiteley – Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts.