Artist and Educator
Printmaking and sculpture form the core of my practice, providing the primary means through which I explore ideas of place, connection, and environmental change.
While my practice is rooted in observation, collecting, and studio-based making, I am also interested in socially engaged approaches that deepen my understanding of place. Engagement with local communities offers perspectives and experiences that sit alongside my own research, informing how I think about landscape, belonging, and relationships between people and environment.
My work responds to change and uncertainty, exploring how people, communities, and landscapes adapt, endure, and recover.
News
A Tapestry of Connection has now reached the end of its Creative Scotland-supported phase. What began with VACMA support in April last year developed over time through studio work, workshops, and collaboration, leading to new connections, conversations, and creative outcomes that I am grateful to have been part of.
A Tapestry of Connection Phase II
Talk by Nicola Neate
Thursday 16 April 2026 7.30pm
Caenn na h-Àirigh, Scotvein, Grimsay
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A Tapestry of Connection Phase II: Clarity and Connection Is supported by a Creative Scotland Open Fund: Individuals grant.
This piece – Poseidon’s Whisper was selected for Common Ground; The Living Landscape, a curated exhibition bringing together artists exploring the Scottish Landscape.
‘Common Ground is an exhibition that brings together artists and makers whose work speaks to our deep, evolving relationship with Scotland’s natural environment. Through objects, images, and installations, it explores how creativity can reflect, honour, celebrate and reimagine the interconnectivity of Art and Nature.’ – Visual Arts Scotland
A documentary about the spaceport at Scolpaig North Uist @Arte.tv by Hannes Schulershome
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/120880-001-A/re-raketenstarts-im-schottischen-inselparadies/
Sculpture using found objects – photograph and font choice by John Kippin
I am thrilled to announce the successful completion of Phase 1 of A Tapestry of Connection my dedicated research project.
Project supported by a Visual Artist & Craft Maker #VACMAScotland
My relocation to North Uist came about due to the photographic residency collaboration with photographer/ artist John Kippin – In This Day and Age – Landscape Identity Community.
Work included in Studies in Photography magazine
A moment from Andy Warhol’s last exhibition, Hayward Gallery, 1987 — where our paths briefly crossed.
https://fb.watch/iEpNpFEMtj/
Commissions
- Commissioned Artist for Heartlands Regeneration Project in Cornwall
- Commissioned Artist for SixtyEightyThirty (608030) supports women in Northumberland experiencing domestic abuse or violence.
- Mural in Bitts park for Carlisle City Council
- Title sequence movie for the Drama series Lenny Blue Starring Ray Winstone for Granada Television
- Artwork title for T.V. screen play Dread Poets Society starring Benjamin Zephaniah – BBC TV creating
For my grandchildren:
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