N I C O L A N E A T E
https://www.instagram.com/only.printsnn/
https://www.instagram.com/kippin_neate
https://www.instagram.com/friends_of_scolpaig/
linkedin.com/in/nicola-neate-770b1a27
Qualifications
MA Fine Art Printmaking – Camberwell College of Art
PGDip Photography University of Sunderland
BA Fine Art Painting – Ravensbourne College of Art and Design
Campaign Against the North Uist Spaceport, Scolpaig (2022–2024)
Role: Social Media Manager
- Coordinated online strategy and community outreach for the campaign opposing the proposed spaceport.
- October 2025 Featured in 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/ - July 25 2023 Featured (with partner) in The Guardian highlighting local resistance efforts.
Exhibitions Awards Lecturing/Workshops/Presentations
February 2025 awarded Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards (VACMA)
May 2025 A Tapestry of Connection blog – fieldwork and workshop documentation – VACMA
November 2024 group exhibition Looking at Ourselves
September – October 2024 group exhibition 20:20 Print Exchange
2024 Group selected photography exhibition Landscape
2023 – Organised 20:20 print exchange for Taigh Chearsabhagh Print Workshop members – and small Cafe gallery show Project 20:20 to advertise the touring event for September/October 2024
2023 – 2024 Part of steering group for Printmakers of Scotland
2024 Printmaking 3 day workshop with Special educational needs and disability (SEND) students from Graigard at The LEC Lionacleit, Uist
2023 – Curated show for Learning and Living Wildness Event
2023 – Developed programme and delivered workshop event Learning and Living Wildness for Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Art Centre, North Uist
2022 – 2024, Print and Darkroom Coordinator and Technician at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Art Centre
2019 –2024 Visiting Art lecturer for BA and NC Art students University of the Highlands and Islands – North West and Hebrides
2021 – 2024 community participation with Uist Artist Association (UAA)
2022 University of Sunderland Open Lecture/ Presentation with John Kippin
2020 In conversation with North East Photography Network
2020 A3 Session – Imagining an Island online Seminar event – hosted by the Centre for Rural Creativity 20
2019 Pecha Kucha Cabinet of Curiosities with Lews Castle College
2020 Imagining an Island (iAi) – on 25th and 26th September two-day Symposium – contributor and collaborative organiser https://www.taigh-chearsabhagh.org/events/virtual-symposium-imagining-an-island/
2019 – 2022, A collaborative Photographic Residency Project (with John Kippin) in the Outer Hebrides
2022 John Kippin & Nicola Neate: IN this DAY and AGE – The Outer Hebrides NGCA Collection Space https://sunderlandculture.org.uk/events/john-kippin-nicola-neate-in-this-day-and-age-the-outer-hebrides/
2022 Book publication https://www.kerberverlag.com/en/2001/john-kippin-und-nicola-neate
2020 Work in Progress exhibition In this Day and Age https://www.taigh-chearsabhagh.org/events/in-this-day-and-age-john-kippin-nicola-neate/
2009-12 Awarded an artist commission for Heartlands Project, Cornwall. An artist led community project; employing participative, communal, interactive and experimental methods to inform the research for the artwork. This residency project ran over three years with the completion of an environmental sustainable Site Specific Installation within the site of Robinson’s Shaft – Matter of Time Totems www.heartlandscornwall.com http://www.plenangwarry.blogspot.com
2010-2013 Member of Northern Print studio; working on a series of digital imaging silkscreen prints
2012 Story of a Studio group show Northern Print
2020 work included in Studies in Photography magazine
2012 20:20 print exchange group show
2011 20:20 print exchange group show – featured print
2011-12 Northern Footprints group show Northern Print
2010 – Bitts Park Mural, Carlisle, commission for Carlisle City Council to design and paint mural in park inspired by the surrounding landscape.
2009 Awarded month residency at St. Michael’s Printshop NFL Canada
2008 Pouch Cove NFL Canada residency
2008 Re·Worked 2 -Washington Gallery Wales September – selected group
2007 solo ‘Groundwork’ – Man&Eve Gallery Kennington London May-June 2007 solo
2006 Art in Mind, Part 8, Rivington St, London EC2A – selected group
2006 Open House London’ Weekend, Galleria Studios Peckham London SE15
2005 Environmental Stroud House Gallery, Stroud – selected group
2005 Childers Street artist’s open studio
2005 Sense and Sensuality – Royal College of Art – selected group
2004 Exhibition of paintings and prints in Kingly Court, Carnaby St. Shaftesbury PLC – creating awareness of art solo
2000 Exhibition of paintings presented by ‘Ally’ in association with Lynsey Baxter Lambs Conduit St. WC1 solo
2002 of paintings New Yard Space Shoreditch EC2 solo
2000 Exhibition of prints Workhouse Gallery solo
1997 – 2005 Member of Artichoke Print Workshop, London
Workshops/ Teaching/ Presentations
2024 Printmaking 3 day workshop with Special educational needs and disability (SEND) students from Graigard at The LEC Lionacleit, Uist
2022 University of Sunderland Open Lecture/ Presentation with John Kippin
2020 In conversation with North East Photography Network
2020 A3 Session – Imagining an Island online Seminar event – hosted by the Centre for Rural Creativity 20
2019 Pecha Kucha Cabinet of Curiosities with Lews Castle College
2020 Imagining an Island (iAi) – on 25th and 26th September two-day Symposium – contributor and collaborative organiser https://www.taigh-chearsabhagh.org/events/virtual-symposium-imagining-an-island/
2015 -2017 Analogue Photography and Media lecturer Peterborough Academy
2014 Part time Teaching Assistant to Photographer/Lecturer Uta Kogelsberger at Newcastle University
2014 Cyanotype workshop University of Sunderland
2014 T-shirt printing workshop ‘Give Festival’ summer
2012 & 2013 T-shirt printing workshop Alston Aspire summer
2013 Etching workshop Alston Art group (adults, practicing artists’)
2012 Two-day colorgraph workshop Alston Art group (adults, practicing artists’)
2011 Two-day colorgraph workshop with selected art students from Pool Academy resulting in a magazine. sponsored by ‘Williams Travel’, Cornwall TR14 8RA
2011 Alston Art group a two-day intensive copper-etching workshop with an emphasis on line and mark making.
2009 Presentation at Camborne College, on commissioned piece for Heartlands Project
2008-2009 Presentations for Heartlands Project ‘Matter of Time Totems’ commissioned community project
2008 Participant in conference at Falmouth University -‘Networks of Design’ Thursday 4th September
2008 Artist consultant for Architects Dransfield Owens de Silva Ltd.
2007 Volunteer Artist in Residence at The Woodlands Farm Trust. 331 Shooters Hill, Kent.
2007 Workshop working with vulnerable children at the Harvest festival; Woodlands Farm, Kent
2003 workshop Kimberley Hall festival Norfolk
2002 workshop Kimberley Hall festival Norfolk
1999 Two-week print residency at London Print Studio Harrow Rd.
1995 Colchester Institute 1 term teaching Photoshop to art foundation students
1989 – 1991 Art teacher at HM Prison Brixton, SW2 5XF London, UK
1989 Colchester Institute: exhibition of paintings and prints combined with artist’s talk
1987 Braintree art foundation – artist talk and seminar
Related work
2024 Photographer for UHI-NWH student preview show
2019 – 2024 actively involved in campaigning against Scolpaig Spaceport as social media manager and editor https://www.instagram.com/friends_of_scolpaig/
2007 Assistant on Ackroyd & Harvey’s grass installation on the Fly Tower of the National Theatre building Waterloo London
2003 Assistant on Ackroyd & Harvey’s grass installation in the deconsecrated Clare College Mission Church Dilston Grove
2008 Performance; ‘Sweety’, Artsadmin ‘Peachy Couchy Nite’
2007 Interactive Installation Performance Kimberley Hall festival Norfolk
2006 Interactive Installation Performance Kimberley Hall festival Norfolk
Digital/Animation Projects
2002 Lenny Blue Title Sequence digital animation Screened on lTV commissioned by Granada TV for the two-part drama series, starring Ray Winstone. www.imdb.com/name/nm1641784/filmotype
2003 Screening of the experimental animation Bird Land at Hat on Wall the Gallery and members club, Hatton Wall London EC1
2004 Bird Land screened at the Vibe Bar, Brick Lane EC2 part of Cultural Virus
1998 Designed poster photograph with digital imaging for Bush Theatre for Snoo Wilson’s play ‘Sabina’
1998 Interactive computer projection Neo Boat and Impossible Landscapes. exhibited in The Studio Beckenham
1997 Neo Boat was published by Creative Review on CD-ROM21, Feb. issueMA Fine Art Printmaking – Camberwell College of Art
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