Nick Malone
I love to cross art forms, exploring the interaction between my ideas, writing and images as palimpsests of text rise through successive veils of paint. Emerging out of real narrative adventures, these works hold in the paint those moments of chance and intent when their stories unfolded. Like pages torn from sketchbooks, they trace, as dissolving and reforming maps, routes where ambiguity and multiple narrative weave through a landscape of inner and outer perception. Offering direct equivalents to material physics and the nature of thought, they seek consensus in their own reality, and are, in their own terms, a form of realism.
Lived Experience
I was initially a writer and supported myself with an academic career. During this period I was Visiting Professor at Thessaloniki University in Greece and Wisconsin University in America, and these experiences, combined with my travels across Russia, provided material that would later figure in the adventures of my later work. My first book, ‘The Burial of Crispin Pyke’, had an introduction by William Empson, some of whose ideas in ‘Seven Types of Ambiguity’ Isubsequently transferred into painting and drawing. I then abandoned this former life to become a full-time artist.
My art practice has evolved over time, from cruciform landscapes developed from the figure to chance interactions with mixed media, layers and glazes; my more recent work uses collage, text and images for an iconography of inner fable, geography and dream, allowing the viewer to see different dimensions, both within their own psyche and within the physical world around them.
Qualifications and training
2006 - MA Fine Art, Central St.Martins, London
1992 - BA Hons, Fine Art, University of Hertfordshire
1984 - MA (Distinction), Modern English Literature, Queen Mary College, London
Awards
2023 | Eutopia Art Residency
2020 | Arts Council England Award
2020 | Bursary - The Royal Society of Arts
2007 - Arts Council England Award
Exhibitions
2026 | Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2025 | Williamson Art Gallery and Museum
2025 | Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2025 | Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
2025 | Aesthetica Art Prize | On-line Exhibition
2025 | Mirage | Stash Gallery, Voube-O-Reemees, London (Catalogue essay - Tabish Khan) (Symposium speakers - Sasha Craddock, Tabish Khan and Jean Wainwright)
2025 | Disappearance, Royal Society of Arts, London | Solo
2024 | The PATH, Palazzo Pisani - Revedia, Venice Biennale
2024 | Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Open, Bankside Gallery, London
2024 | Salon Noir, 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, London
2024 | Imaginarium, São Paulo, Brazil
2023 | Art on the Underground, Great Portland Street, London
2023 | Through the Looking Glass, Mall Galleries, London
2023 | Kavala, Bermondsey Project Space, London | Solo (Catalogue essay - Mark Hudson)
2023 | Eutopia Art Award - Residency Exhibition, Eutopia Gallery, Kavala, Greece | Solo
2022 | Passages of Transformation, Bermondsey Project Space, London | Solo (Catalogue essay - Matthew Radford)
2022 | Visions, Anima Mundi, Palazzo Bembo, Venice Biennale
2022 | The MAGMA Group - The Certainty of Strangeness, Bermondsey Project Space, London
2022 | British Painting 3, Bermondsey Project Space, London
2021 | The London Biennale, Chelsea Old Town Hall
2021 | International Open 2021, Visual Arts Association | Curator's Choice
2021 | ArtBox Project Year 1, ARTBOX Gallery, Zurich
2020 - MK Calling, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
2020 - RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2017 - Visions, Anima Mundi Festival, Palazzo. Ca'Zanardi, Venice Bienale
2017 - A Tale of Two Lives, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London (solo)
2017 - ArtMaze - International Selection of Emerging Artists, Summer Issue
2016 - Secret Art Prize, Curious Duke Gallery, London
2016 - RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2015 - The Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition, Bond House Gallery, London
2015 - Anonymous, Art Platform, London
2014 - Open Exhibition, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
2014 - Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014 - RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2013 - Postcards from my Studio, ACME Project Space, London
2010 - Paper Myths: Constructing the Other, Course Exhibition, Tate Modern, London
2008 - Passages, SW1 Gallery, London (solo)
2006 - MA Graduation Show, Central St Martins, London
2006 - Quick and Dirty, Oxo Tower, Bargehouse Gallery, London
2005 - New Work from Cyprus, The Hellenic Centre, London (solo)
2005 - Discord, Temporary Contemporary, London
2005 - Gallery Artists, Vertigo Gallery, London
2004 - Contemporary British Painting, EWACC, Tokyo
2003 - Gallery Artists, Vertigo Gallery, London (solo)
2003 - Art London, Contemporary Art Fair, London
2002 - Lost Eidolons, Vertigo Gallery, London (solo)
2002 - Byte - New Digital Work, The Media Centre, London
2002 - Contemporary British Art, Arts Council Gallery, Idaho, USA
2002 - Drawing, Vertigo Gallery, London 2001
2001 - Chamber, e1 Gallery, London (solo)
2001 - London Contemporary Art Fair, Chelsea, London
2000 - Art London, Contemporary Art Fair, Chelsea, London
2000 - Art Paris, Carousel du Louvre, Paris
2000 - The New Elemental Aesthetic, e1 Gallery, London
1999 - Recovering, e1 Gallery, London (solo)
1999 - Art 99, London Contemporary Art Fair
1999 - Vital Art, The Gallery, Clerkenwell, London
1998 - New Work, Conningsby Gallery, London (solo)
1997 - Light & Ice, University of Wisconsin, USA (solo)
1997 - The Hunting National Art Competition Exhibition, London
1996 - Balkan Earth, British Council, Greece (solo)
1996 - Dragons on the Move, The Raw Gallery, London
1995 - Connecting Lines, The Rietvedt Academy, Amsterdam, Holland
1994 - Nick Malone, The Central Exhibition Gallery, Milton Keynes (solo)
1994 - The Earth Moved, Raw Energy, London (solo)
1993 - New Work, University of Luton (solo)
1992 - Excavations, The Open University (solo)
Collections
Nick's work is represented in a number of collections, including:
Salford Art Gallery
British Council Greece
Granville Holdings
West LB
One Aldwych
University of Wisconsin
BUPA
Horsham Arts Centre
I Hennig & Co Brokers
Manches LLP
Tradition Financial Services
GlaxoSmithKline
RAC
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