Artist Biog/ Statement

Janie Nicoll, Visual Artist

Artist's statement

Janie Nicoll's work generally takes the form of site-specific installation using multiple digital images, which attempt to be visually engaging in a contentious or ambiguous way. She works with collage techniques, and digital photography to re-appropriate cultural references and signifiers within a process of translation, often creating an ironic dialogue with the viewer.
Recent works have used what appears to be a low tech or homespun approach, to explore imagery connected to the urban landscape, the machinations of society and notions of masculinity, rebellion, clannish-ness and fraternity.

“Nicoll’s work is involved in the process of translation and conversion – of scale and of materials – to make new stories from old. Her work involves small acts of scrutiny and transformation that uncover beauty, banality and anxiety in the overlooked details of the everyday. Small things, maybe, but not insignificant“ Moira Jeffrey.
To see the full essay "Small things: Recent Work by Karen Vaughan and Janie Nicoll" by Moira Jeffrey go to ESSAYS.

Artist Biog

Janie Nicoll is a visual artist based in Glasgow. She originally trained in Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, gaining a first class honours degree and the Watt Medal for Academic Distinction from the Fine Art Department. After gaining a post graduate diploma at ECA she lived in Budapest, Hungary for a year on a British Council Scholarship, returning to Scotland and moving to Glasgow in 1991. She graduated from the Master of Fine Art course at Glasgow School of Art in 1997.

She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, most recently in a solo exhibition 'Fools Gold', at the Briggait Project Spaces, Glasgow; 'Propellart' at East Street Arts, Leeds; 'Stories' at Wolverhampton Art Gallery; 'Streetland', Govanhill, Glasgow; 'Getting Up -Windows In the City', Inverness Old Town Art Project; ‘Rough Cut Nation’ Scottish National Portrait Gallery in ; ‘Heavy Influence’, Magazine 09 at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop; Jamie Radcliffe Exhibition at SWG3; The Park Gallery, Falkirk; Magazine 07, ESW; the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh; ‘The Consequence’ at Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow; the Deviant Arts Festival, Trollhättan, Sweden; Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool; Generator Projects, Dundee; Chapter Gallery, Cardiff; Lowsalt Gallery and EmergeD VSF Gallery, Glasgow; The Waygood Gallery, Newcastle; The Changing Room, Stirling; the Crawford Gallery, Cork and the Künstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany amongst others. Her video works have been shown internationally including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
During 2008 she undertook a year-long SAC pARTners residency in Digital Media at Callendar House, Falkirk in collaboration with Alex Hetherington. Previous residencies have been at Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, USA; Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Neonatal Unit; Yorkhill Hospital for Sick Kids, Glasgow; Chatelherault Country Park, Hamilton; Shining Cliff International Residency for My House Projects, Nottingham; and Generator Projects, Dundee.

She has collaborated with artist Alex Hetherington on a number of performances and curatorial projects including Sh[out] @ GOMA; The Consequence video screenings at Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow, and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop; ‘Deception/Reception’ at Bier Halle Republic, Glasgow; ‘House Lights’ at ESW; the TWINS Calendar Project; 'High Rise Cinema' an outdoor video screening; and music and performance events for Big In Falkirk.

She has regularly written articles for a-n Magazine including exhibitions by Karla Black at Mary Mary; Jim Colquhoun "Widows"; Mark Neville at StreetLevel Photoworks and Renfrew Street Social Club at Lowsalt Gallery; "A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes To You" at Market Gallery; "Contra-flow" at Pentagon Business Centre. She has attended various NAN networking events in Newcastle, Liverpool, Bristol, Cardiff and written about these for a-n Magazine, 'Inport/Export'. Other articles include "Rules of Engagement", "Dialogue In Scotland", "Artists Campaign In Scotland"; "What Do We-Think" Conference.

She has been an active contributor to the contemporary visual art scene in Scotland, giving talks and presentations at a variety of seminars and conferences and is an executive member of the SAU, Scottish Artists Union. She has a WASP's studio at South Block (Studio No. 329), Trongate, Glasgow. She is also on the Exhibition programming panel for the Briggait Project Spaces. Please see the CV page for a more comprehensive list of exhibitions and involvements.

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