Nicole Ward
(She/her)
Address: Snails, Christian Krohgs gate 2, 0186 Oslo
Floor: 5
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
Film, video, sculpture, installation, zine
and one guest, Nicole Ward, Sculptural video installation - MiniDV/digital video, colour/sound, loop of 25’11” (on 65” monitor screen, stereo speakers), paint, paint buckets, 2024, Kunstnernes Hus (Loftet), Oslo, NO. Installation view - Photo: Kunstdok/Istvan Virag
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
seat (detail), Nicole Ward, Sausages, wood, foam mattress offcut (studio bed), 2024, Kunstnernes Hus (Loftet), Oslo, NO, Detail view, Photo: Kunstdok/Istvan Virag
and one guest (video still), Nicole Ward, MiniDV/digital video, colour/sound, loop of 25’11”, 2024
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Nicole Ward (born Belfast) 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.
She is a co-founder of Snails (2024-) – a new studio collective/project space in central Oslo, & a co-founder of Oslo Crit Klubb (2023-) – a peer critique/support group working out of artists’ studio in the city.
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.
Recent publications include Silent Photos & Landing on a Mole, which she presented at several artist book fairs in 2024 including Athens Art Book Fair & Dublin Art Book Fair.