Selected CV
Lives and works in Manchester, UK
Group exhibitions
2024
Excavations, hybrid exhibition curated by Deborah Smith with Vortic Art. Online and in person at House of Koko, London.
Inaugral group exhibition of indoor and outdoor works at ARC Peaks, Peak District UK
Twelve Thousand, duo exhibition of large scale sculpture with Richard Dean Hughes, Unit 12 Ardwick Manchester.
2023
Centre of the periphery, Pipeline Contemporary, Fitzrovia London UK
Mosaic Art Prize 2023, Hauser & Wirth, London UK
Reside exhibition. Outcome of artist residency in her fathers home invention cabin, St Helens UK
Pallet Show, sculpture court at Manchester Contemporary Art Fair, Manchester UK
2022
Atos Art of Manufacturing, Atos business innovation and technology centres in Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Milan, Vienna, Dallas, Liverpool and London.
Peripheral Memories, Spazio35, Udine, Italy
Reflections part 3: sculpture made by women, Workplace, London UK
2021
Peripheral Memories, Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste, Italy
Not Painting, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK
10 year anniversary exhibition, Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough UK
Leggy MK II, Middlesbrough Art weekender, Middlesbrough, UK
2019
No Particular place to go? 35 years of sculpture at Castlefield Gallery, UK
Each Toward the Other, Bury Sculpture Centre, Bury UK
Major conversations’ pt.1 Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough UK
Major Conversations pt.2 The Turnpike Gallery, Leigh UK.
CONTINUUM, Allenheads Contemporary Arts at the North Pennines Observatory UK
2018
Oh, it is easy to be clever if one does not know all these questions. DOX, Prague and Castlefield Gallery UK
Incidental Futures, with Incidental Unit, Clore Studio at South London Gallery, London.
2017
Drawing for sculpture. 20 21 VAC Scunthorpe, UK
Transfuse: Three weeks of sculpture at The Great Medical Disaster. Manchester UK
Fix. ICW, Blackpool UK
2016
From A to C, this being B. Caustic Coastal, Salford UK
NY open, NY space, Manchester UK
Means. Unit, Blackpool UK
Da Vinci Engineered. Zebedees Yard, Hull UK
2015
Cascading Relevant Information. Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool UK
The Manchester Contemporary with Castlefield Gallery, TMC, Manchester UK
In Emergency Break Glass. Manchester Art Gallery. Manchetser UK
2014
The shape of things to come. Stour Valley Arts, Kent, UK
2013
The Manchester Contemporary with Castlefield Gallery, Manchester UK
A priori. University of Central Lancashire, Preston UK
Head to head: Nicola Ellis and Aura Satz. Commission, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester UK
Means of feedback. Cube Gallery, Manchester UK
Some recent examples. Lever street, Manchester UK
Four. Commission by Cornerhouse, Manchester UK
2012
Meanwhile see this. Castlefield Gallery, Manchester UK
Cabedal. Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal
Part of the programme. FAFA Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2011
Neo:artprize. Neogallery22, Bolton UK
Against the grain performance. Emergency Accommodation. BMC. Manchester UK
We are all in this together. Bureau, Manchester UK
2009
Experimental Film and Video Art Vol 2. The New Continental, Preston UK
2004
Resonance. Liverpool Biennial. Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool UK
Solo exhibitions and projects
2022
Solo presentation at the National festival of Making, Blackburn UK
2021
Nicola Ellis and Ritherdon & Co ltd: No Gaps in The Line. Castlefield Gallery, Manchester UK
2018
Chemistry and Magic, straight down the line. Commission for The National Festival of Making, Blackburn UK
2017
Front and Back. The Birley, Preston UK
Sculpture: a fabrication. AIR Gallery Altrincham UK
2015
It’ll hold until it breaks. Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK
More room for error ArcadeCardiff Wales
More room for error Site specific installation at &Model Leeds UK and
More room for error Site specific installation at Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK
2014
You won’t see that bit anyway. Commission, 20 21 VAC Scunthorpe, UK
2013
Sculpture Series- Quays Culture. Exhibition 1, The Studio, Media City, Salford Quays UK
2009
Full Circle. PAD Gallery, Preston UK.
Residencies
2024
An invitation to learn the making of sculpture in bronze, Walnut Works, Suffolk, UK
2023
The Grange Projects, Norfolk UK
Reside residency in the artists fathers inventors shed, supported by a RESIDE grant, St Helens
2021-2023
Collaboration with manufacturer Ritherdon & Co Ltd (UK) and robotics specialist Digiotouch (Estonia) as part of a Better Factory Knowledge Transfer Experiment (K.T.E)
2021
Artist in residence at the Pittini Group headquarters in Osoppo, facilitated by IoDeposito, Trieste, Italy
2019 – 2021
Return to Ritherdon, Ritherdon & Co Ltd, Darwen, Lancashire, UK
2018
Art in Manufacturing residency at Ritherdon Ltd for The National Festival of Making
BEYOND open door residency, Allenheads Contemporary Arts at the North Pennines Observatory, UK
2017
FIX. ICW Blackpool UK
2016
3rd Floor Studios residency. Manchester UK
2014
Merz Barn Residency, Merz Barn, Cumbria UK
Stour Valley Arts Residency, Kent, UK
2011
Secs and Death Cells. The Hive, Manchester. UK
Grants, Awards and fellowships
2023
Mosaic Art Prize 2023 finalist, Hauser & Wirth, London UK
DYCP Grant, Arts Council England
2022
Henry Moore Institute Artist Research Fellowship
2020.
Henry Moore Foundation Artists Award
2019
ACE Grant for the Arts for ‘Return to Ritherdon’, a two year Artist Placement at steel enclosure manufacturer Ritherdon & Co Ltd.
2017
Manchester International Festival Creative50
ACE Grants for the Arts for ‘Sculpture: a fabrication’ research and development project.
2016
ACE Grants for the Arts for ‘Play/pause: The turbulent history of UK steel’ research project
2014
ACE Grants for the Arts for More room for error practice development project
2010
St Helens Strategic Themed Grant
2007
CADGE Funding UCLAN
Publications
2021
No Gaps in The Line
2019
No Particular Place to Go? 35 years of sculpture at Castlefield Gallery
2017
From A to C; This being B
2015
More Room for error: Nicola Ellis
2013
Mark Devereux Projects: Nicola Dale | David Ogle| Nicola Ellis
2012
Corridor 8 Contemporary Art and Writing Journal issue 3, Annual 2012
Quick slow Part 3
Collections
Arts Council Collection
Government Art Collection
Manchester Art Gallery collection
Atos Collection
Io.deposito
Soho House
Private collections in the UK and abroad
Education
2010 – 2011 MA Fine, Art Manchester School of Art
2005 – 2009 BA hons Fine Art, University of Central Lancashire