nick evans // Profile
"The vitality of Evans’ gestural forms is as much achieved through a joy of making as through an exploration of aspects of human experience. He constructs anarchic and playful relationships between his painted surfaces and animated forms, a testing ground in which to graft, overlap, manipulate, counterpoint and subvert extrapolated art historic samples or ‘specimens’: cubism, constructivism, art informel, abstract expressionism, graffiti art and pop, to name but a few. Drawing from a variety of sources from twentieth-century art history and contemporary culture, his eclectic practice subverts sculptural traditions whilst questioning contemporary social, political and cultural representations."
Sara Hughes, Tate St Ives. (from Tate St Ives Website)
Artist's CV
NICK EVANS
Born in 1976, Mufulira, Zambia
Lives & works in Glasgow
Education
2008 13 week residency, European Ceramic Work Centre, The Netherlands
2000 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture & Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art
1999 Royal College of Fine Arts, Stockholm
1997 BTEC Foundation studies in Art & Design, Yeovil College, Somerset
Forthcoming / Current Exhibitions
2009
Washington Garcia, Glasgow (Date TBC) - solo
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Primary School, Inverleith House, Edinburgh
2007
Rational Slab, Mary Mary, Glasgow
2006
Abstract Machines, Tate Gallery, St.Ives, Cornwall
2005
Some Newer Formalisms, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2002
Remember Old Pineapple Face, Glasgow Project Room
Lumumba is Dead, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Group Exhibitions
2005
Liberation de L’aesthethique, The Old Jail, Tobago Street, Glasgow
Tobias Buche / Nick Evans, Mary Mary, Glasgow
2004
Red Bus Go, 273 High Street, Glasgow
PILOT 1 International Art Forum, Limehouse Town Hall, London
From Here to Eternity and Back Again, Generator Projects, Dundee
Britannia Works, Xippas Gallery & Ileana Tounta Gallery, Athens
2001
No Place Uncharted, The Town Mill Gallery, Lyme Regis, Dorset
October, Public Art Project, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow
East of Eden, Spacex, Exeter
Return of the Rural, 291 Gallery, London
Under Construction, G39, Mill Lane, Cardiff
2000
Amateur View, Market, Glasgow
The International Festival of the Owl, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Art at the Macbeth, The Hoxton Distillery, London