Nicole Ward
(She/her)
Address: Kunstnernes Hus Atelier (FKDS), Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo
Floor: 2
Room number: 2
The studio is open Sunday 28 April from 12-17
Film, video, sculpture, installation
Watching a wrinkle carve itself out across a forehead, Nicole Ward, digital video, colour/silence, loop of 19'55", 2023, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO, Installation view, Photo: Kunstdok
Mouthed numbers, Nicole Ward, 160 hand-transferred 35mm slides, 2 carousel slide projectors, 2 interval timers, 2023, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO, installation view, Photo: Kunstdok
Best measured not in feet but in hours, Nicole Ward, Hand-forged & welded mild steel, linseed oil (Variable dimensions), 2023, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO, installation view, Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Watching a wrinkle carve itself out across a forehead, Nicole Ward, Digital video, colour/silence, loop of 19'55"
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Nicole Ward (born Belfast, N.IRE) is an Irish artist who graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2023. She is alumni of School of the Damned (2017), an autonomous free art school in the UK. She received her BA in Fine Art from University College Falmouth, UK, in 2009. As well as her own independent art practice, Nicole works as part of a collaborative duo with fellow artist Anna Clawson, under the moniker Clawson & Ward (since 2010).
Alongside her studio practice, Nicole organises D.I.Y. events including: KH_KinoMix.mov, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO (2024 & 2023); lip-flap: Laura Phillips, Greg Pope, Vicky Smith, Deichman Grünerløkka, Oslo, NO (2022); An Evening in the Dark with Diego Marcon (in conversation with Mike Sperlinger), Black Box (KhiO), Oslo, NO (2021).
Previous activities include exhibitions at Atelier Nord, Oslo, NO; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO; Akademirommet, Oslo, NO; Interkulturelt Museum, Oslo, NO; Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; CCA Derry~Londonderry, NI; Tenderpixel, London, UK; Royal West Academy, Bristol, UK; Glasgow International, Scotland, UK; Ormston House, Limerick, IRE; Guest Projects, London, UK, Malonioji 6, Vilnius, LT; CRATE, Margate, UK.
Previous residencies include RUPERT, Vilnius, LT; Studio Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AU; Nida Art Colony, LT; Spike Island, Bristol, UK; KARST, Plymouth, UK.