About

Nicole Wassall asks us to reconcile logic and imagination.

Fine tuning her practice, whilst simultaneously pushing its boundaries, she balances a unique mix of intellectual and practical curiosity. Early in her career she was fascinated by neuroscience and used it to inform her practice. More recently that vein of thought has extended into sketching with poetry, in her drive to creatively respond to concerns of humanity. So, whilst her practice is varied, there is an anchor in her intellectual and emotional concern, ‘De rerum natura’ (On the nature of things).

Her practice is a cross-disciplined exploration of belief, myth, science, spirituality, superstition, environmental concerns, feminism, magic, and absurdity. Based in London her studio is a dynamic space; one week she will be embroidering an 8 meter length of fine fabric and the next mixing egg yolk and pigments to make tempera paint, but there again, if you go a month later she could be experimenting with photography, sound and scent.

Nicole has exhibited in America, Australia, Belgium, England, Hong Kong and Poland. She completed an MA in Fine Art (Central Saint Martins, London), was shortlisted for the Clifford Chance Sculpture Award and Saatchi Sensations awards on graduation. She has shown her work regularly with Fiumano Clase, has been a panelist for London Art Fair (Women and Art – The Female Shape of Activism), been exhibited multiple times in New York with Rick Wester Fine Art and a book about her practice ‘The Law of Unplanned Consequence’ was published in 2014. Her work is also included in various catalogues, alongside artists like Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly.

She has various works in the Ramsey collection and her works are in the collections of editors of various cultural magazines (including Apollo – The International Art Magazine, Tattler and Love Magazine). Other collectors of her work include a director at the Wolfsonian (Miami) and various prominent artists including a key YBA and a Royal Academician.

EXHIBITIONS & TALKS

2024 June ACT with the Arts Climate Festival, Devon

2024 February, Ora Gallery, Sydney

2023 December, WIA Winter Open, Lewes

2023 October, Gallery Family Saturday

2023 October, Nicole Wassall in conversation with Francesca Fiumano, Artists Talk

2023 September, Unicorns Are Real, Fiumano Clase, London – solo

2022 April, Explore 01, Kroll (with ArtCan) New York

2022 March, One by One, Fiumano Clase, London

2022 March, Women and Art – Female Shape of Activism, Panel discussion London Art Fair, London

2021 November, 2022 January, Magic, Mischief & Mayhem, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York – solo

2021 October, TRANS/FORM, curated by Gita Joshi, Cello Factory, London (Cancelled due to Covid)

2021 August, Re:store Re:new Re:imagine, Willesden Gallery, London

2021 July, September, Love Devotion Surrender Dedication, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York

2021 July, Soundstripes 5, The Abbeydale Picture House, Sheffield

2021 July, Every Woman Biennial, London (and New York)

2021 May, Silent Film, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath

2021 May, While We Wait: Branching Out, Vacant Museum, virtual/online

2021 April, Different Strokes Project, Female Artists Club, Belgium

2021 January, Imprints: Past & Present, Vacant Museum, virtual/online

2020 August, Feminism, Mythology and the Artists Practice, Interview with curator Ines Mourato

2020 July, Water gilding and the use of narratives in contemporary art, virtual artists talk and studio visit with Francesca Fiumano

2020 June, Summer Exhibition, Fiumano Clase

2020 May, Once Upon a Time, and Now! Studio 3 Gallery, Kent University, Canterbury

2020 May, Really//Real, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath

2020 April, Digital Quilt, Art In Flux, London

2019 November, Lethaby Gallery, London

2019 November, Precious Mettle, Fiumano Clase, London – solo

2019 October, In conversation with Jo Baring, London – discussion event

2018 February, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York

2017 November, Wassall & Lohe, Fiumano Clase, London – launch of gallery

2016 September, Editions, Orion Contemporary, London

2015 December, Shh! Gallery 51, Sydney (space now Aro Gallery) – solo

2015 May to December, Illuminated Manuscripts, Blake Society, London – numerous locations

2014 November, Lethaby Gallery, London

2014 March, Fiumano Projects, London – solo

2014 October, Touch Art Fair, London

2014 November, Pop Up, London Art, London

Other exhibitions From 2013-10 include: The Grand Plasto at Kaleid, Outside in at Fiumano Projects (solo), What is an ArtBook? At Mews Project Space, Pop-up linked to ISEA Sydney 2013 at 51 William Street, Survival 8 at Art Transparent Poland, Dazed Live festival with Dazed and Confused magazine, Visiting artists at Red Door Studios, Outhere art festival at Round Chapel, Sluice Art Fair with Modern Language Experiment, Barmy Park East London Art Festival, Hot Boredom at ArtWars, Wanted at The Rag Factory.

ART FAIRS

2023 January, with Fiumano Clase at London Art Fair, London

2018 March, with Fiumano Clase at Art Central, Hong Kong

2018 January, with Fiumano Clase at London Art Fair, London

2017 December, with Fiumano Clase at Pulse Miami Beach, Miami

2015 January, with Fiumano Projects at London Art Fair, London

2015 March, with Fiumano Projects at Art Central, Hong Kong

2014 February, with Fiumano Projects Art 14 (Emerge section), Olympia Grand, London – solo

2013 January, with Fiumano Fine Art at London Art Fair, London

AWARDS/COMPETITIONS/RESIDENCIES

2024 February, Ora Art Space residency, Sydney, Australia

2020 Summer working residency with London Art