BIOGRAPHY
(b.1965 Durban, South Africa)
‘My practice engages with ideas of interspecies relationships in the domestic environment, exploring the intimacy and tender nature of companion species and making visible our entangled existence. ‘
Nicola Bailey 2022.
A multi-media interdisciplinary artist, Bailey began her art tuition in 1997 at Ruth Prowse Art College in Cape Town South Africa. Since 2008 she has been part of an art collective founded by Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, collectively known as Rosenclaire which is based in both Florence Italy and South Africa.
At first blush, Bailey’s first solo was held in 2014 at The Culture Gallery at Woodstock Exchange Cape Town, South Africa. In 2020 she presented a solo And the Animal Responded for Cubicle Series at Everard Read Gallery Cape Town. The tenderness of ghosts opening May 2022, is Bailey’s first solo at Everard Read in Johannesburg.
Selected group exhibitions include Domestic departures at the Forge in Cape Town in 2011, In Good Company (curated by Michael Chandler) at The Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town in 2013. Art/Out of the Ordinary (curated by Marilyn Martin) at the Association of Visual Arts (AVA) in Cape Town. Conversations with Irma (curated by Christopher Peter) at The Irma Stern Museum in 2019.
Living and working in Cape Town, Nicola’s artworks are collected both locally and internationally.
EDUCATION
1984-86
Ruth Prowse Art College, Cape Town, South Africa
2008
Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, collectively known as Rosenclaire
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
The tenderness of ghosts, Everard Read Gallery. Johannesburg, South Africa.
2021
OASIS 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Everard Read Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.
WINTER Group exhibition, Everard Read London, UK.
Art on Paper, Kalk Bay Modern. Cape Town South Africa.
2020
SUMMER Group exhibition, Everard Read Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.
SOLO And the Animal Responded, Cubicle Series, Everard Read Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.
2019
Conversations with Irma, Irma Stern Museum. Cape Town, South Africa.
2018
Art on Paper, Kalk Bay Modern. Cape Town, South Africa.
2017
Mixed Metaphors, The Forge. Kalk Bay. Cape Town, South Africa.
2016
Art|Out of the Ordinary, AVA Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.
2014
SOLO At first Blush, The Culture Gallery, Woodstock. Cape Town, South Africa.
2013
My Mothers Garden, Arts on Main. Johannesburg, South Africa.
In Good Company, Irma Stern Museum. Cape Town, South Africa.
2012
Domestic departures, Kalk Bay Modern. Cape Town, South Africa.
COLLECTIONS
The Enthoven Collection, South Africa
Gerry Fox Collection, UK.
The R Oppenheimer Collection, South Africa
The H Rupert Collection, South Africa