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Nicola McEvoy
Exhibitions
꧁ CURRENT ꧂
5 June - 30 August 2026, ‘to belong’, Nunnery Gallery, London. Curated by Mara Ahmed, Justine Enyan, Eleanor Getting and Lydia Lott with Mile End Community Project x Bow Open. [Link]
꧁ PAST ꧂
2026, ‘Archetypes’, Glena Art Studio, London. Curated by Galina Hristova.
2026, ‘Glitch’, Homerton College, Cambridge. Curated by Kahyun Lee.
2026 ‘Water & Metaphors’, Online. Curated by Collect Art, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2024, ‘Possible Unknowns’, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes. Curated by Unknown Collective.
2024, ‘Tea & Friendship’, Pop-Up SPACE Mare Street, London. Curated by Alice Mary Jelaska.
2024, ‘Dream Week’, The Tabernacle, London. Curated by Open Art Spaces.
2023, ‘RCA Research Biennale 2023’, Royal College of Art Research Platform, Online.
2023, ‘Inner Workings’, Cooke Latham Gallery, London. Curated by Clemency Cooke and Gemma Blackshaw.
2023, ‘Kyoto City University of Arts 2022’, KCUA, Kyoto, Japan.
2022, ‘Annual Open Exhibition’, Southwark Park Galleries, London.
2022, BA Fine Art & History of Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths University, London.
2022, ‘Horizons’, Art Hub Studios, London. Curated by Kristina Ludvigson.
2019, City Lit Art Foundation Show, Menier Gallery, London.
Curation
2024, ‘Gathering in Likeness‘, for ActionSpace, Cockpit Studios, London.
2024, ‘Crystallising Worlds‘, for ActionSpace, Cockpit Studios, London. Co-curated by Isabel Jones.
Press & Publication
2026, Collect Art, “Nicola McEvoy”, in 101 contemporary artists and more...,vol. 12, 17 April 2026, Tbilisi, Georgia. p. 29. Online and print.
2026, Transient Zine Collective, “Upon My Mother, I Dream V”, in Dreams, issue 1, 23 February 2026, Leeds, United Kingdom. p. 13. Online and print.
2026, Collect Art, “Nicola McEvoy: Artist Interview”, in Water & Metaphors / Special Edition, vol. 92, 21 January 2026, Tbilisi, Georgia. p. 29-34. Online and print.
Public/Higher Education Workshops
꧁ UPCOMING ꧂
20 June, ‘Bow Families Special: Creating Your Own Puppet Deities with Nicola McEvoy’, for Bow Families, Bow Fest, Bow Arts Courtyard Room, London. FREE drop-in.
28 June, ‘Bow Families: Making Clay Trinket Dishes with Nicola McEvoy’, for Bow Families, Nunnery Gallery Bow Open programme, Bow Arts Courtyard Room, London. FREE drop-in.
26 July, ‘Bow Families: Making Handsewn Drawstring Bags and Pouches with Nicola McEvoy’, for Bow Families, Nunnery Gallery Bow Open programme, Bow Arts Courtyard Room, London. FREE drop-in.
30 August, ‘Bow Families Special: Creating Your Own Puppet Deities with Nicola McEvoy’, for Bow Families, Nunnery Gallery Bow Open programme, Bow Arts Courtyard Room, London. FREE drop-in.
꧁ PAST ꧂
2026, ‘UCL x Bow Arts Hackathon: Exploring AI & Identity Through Curatorial Practice & Exhibition Making’, with Bow Arts & UCL ExtendED Learning Programme, higher education, UCL East, London.
2025, ‘Bow Families Special: Create Your Own Festive Masks and Hats’, for Bow Families, Bow Road Winter Market, Bow Arts Courtyard Room, London.
2025, ‘Making Wearable Body Parts and Creating Surrealist Exquisite Corpses’, for Bow Families, Nunnery Gallery VisionsProgramme1, Bow Arts Courtyard Room, London.
Education
MRes Fine Arts & Humanities, Royal College of Art (2022-2023), 180 credits.
BA Fine Art & History of Art, Goldsmiths (2019-2022), First-Class.
꧁☥꧂
Artist Educator Trainee Programme, Bow Arts, 2024-2025.
Arcane Worlds: New Frontiers in the Study of Esotericism, University of Amsterdam, Summer School 2022, Dutch GPA 9.2 (postgraduate).
Visions of the Occult: Introduction to (Western) Esotericism, University of Amsterdam, Summer School 2021, Dutch GPA 8.3 (postgraduate).
Professional Background
Artist Educator, Bow Arts, 2024-present.
Assistant Artist Facilitator, ActionSpace, 2024-present.
Technical Skill Tuition
I provide tuition in the following areas:
☥ Sewing machine operation, hand embroidery, beginner’s pattern cutting and garment construction, soft sculpture, tufting, punch needle, weaving, wet felting, needle felting.
☥ Kiln operation, ceramic hand-building techniques.
☥ Cyanotypes, chemigrams, photograms.
☥ Sculpture, prop-making, paper-making.
☥ Drawing, printmaking, illustration, zine making, book binding.
Funding
‘Go Abroad Grant’, Santander Scholarships, ‘widening participation’, 2022.
‘Go Abroad Grant’, Santander Scholarships, ‘widening participation’, 2021.
‘Mature Student Scholarship’, Goldsmiths, ‘widening participation’, 2019-2022.
‘Royal Female School of Art Bursary’, RFSA Foundation, ‘widening participation’, 2019.