Nicola Carberry
About the Artist
For a number of years, my practice has been to draw from life, working with the model in the studio through numerous sessions and layers. Recently, I’ve found a way of working online, through necessity for obvious reasons. I was resistant at first, how could I replicate three dimensions from a flat screen? But I found a way to work with this by seeing the flat screen for what it was, a frame around an image, like a still from a film or play, and to view the model as a character within this scene. This opened up lots of new possibilities. Since the world has opened up again, I have returned to face-to-face drawing, while continuing to work with selected models online. The drawings build their own narratives over time, performers about to go on stage, figures deep in thought, actors gripped by the intensity of the character.
Nicola Carberry Biography
1987-91 Glasgow School of Art, BA/Hon’s Fine Art Drawing and Painting
2003-04 Strathclyde University, Post-Graduate Certificate in Post-School Education
2005-Present Lecturer in Art & Design at Glasgow Kelvin College
2010-2018 Lecturer in life drawing at Dollar Summer School, Dollar Academy
2021-Present Artist member of Milngavie Art Club
2015-2019 Committee member and Membership Secretary, of Paisley Art Institute
2016-2019 Council member of the Royal Glasgow Institute
Talks, Workshops and Demonstrations
Feb 2020 Portraiture demo for Milngavie Art Club
Jan 2020 Portraiture workshop for teachers, during the 2020 BP Portrait exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
2018 Presentation on Scottish Art at Mimar Sinan Fine Art University, Istanbul
2017 Portraiture demo for Paisley Art Institute
2008 Portrait marathon and demo for The Big Draw, Stirling Art Gallery & Museum
Awards
2019 Independent Financial Advice Services Award, 131st Annual Exhibition, PAI
2017 John Green Fine Art Award, 129th Annual Exhibition, Paisley Art Institute
2016 James BS Curr Memorial Award, 128th Annual Exhibition, Paisley Art Institute
2014 James BS Curr Memorial Award, 126th Annual Exhibition, Paisley Art Institute
2013 Derwent Award, 125th Annual Exhibition, Paisley Art Institute
2012 Jamieson Award, 124th Annual Exhibition, Paisley Art Institute
1995 Winner of the Visual Arts category, Young Scots Awards
1994 Convenor’s Purchase Prize, Smith Art Gallery Open Exhibition
1994 Stirling District Council Purchase Prize, Cafe Albert Exhibition
1993 Elizabeth Greenshields Award for figurative art, Canada
Commissions
2009 Celebrating ancestry in Alloa for the Homecoming Scotland 2009 campaign
2008 The Big Draw – Stirling Heads, Stirling Art Gallery & Museum, portraits of the Scottish tennis coachJudy Murray, and Colin O’Brien (Chair of the Stirling Smith Trustees)
Residencies
2014 Vermont Studios Centre, Vermont, USA
2007 Oronsko Sculpture Studios, Poland
2006 Oronsko Sculpture Studios, Poland
1995 ‘Art at Work’, Artist in Residence at The Hirsel Estate, Coldstream
Selected Exhibitions
2020 ‘Thoughts Are Free’ RGI exhibition (online)
2020 132nd Annual Exhibition (online), Paisley Art Institute
2019 131st Annual Exhibition, Paisley Art Institute, Paizza Centre, Paisley
2018 130th Annual Exhibition, Paisley Art Institute, Paisley Art Gallery & Museum
2017 RGI Annual Exhibition, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
2017 Scottish Drawing Competition, Paisley Art Gallery & Museum
2016 Derwent Art Prize finalist, The Mall Gallery, London
2016 Euro Celtic Art Exhibition, Lorient Interceltic Festival, Lorient, Brittany
2015 'The Art of Scotland's Political Awakening', Butterfly Rammy, Glasgow Kelvin College
2015 ‘House Kinetica’, Glasgow Open House Art Festival
2015 “America: people, places, furniture”, St Fergus Gallery, Wick
2013 ‘INDEX’, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh
2011 ‘Lecturer exchange show’, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NASCAD Univertsiy, Canada
2006 ‘Akcent’, Galleria ON, Poznan, Poland
