Nicholas Ives
Born 1979
Nicholas Ives lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
Education:
2003 – 2005 Masters of Fine Art (Research) Monash University
1998 – 2001 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) Monash University (Hons)
Award & Grants
2018 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (finalist)
2016 ArtBox Commission (recipient)
2015 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (finalist)
2015 Ronald Greenaway Artist Commission (recipient), Town Hall Gallery Hawthorn
2013 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (semi-finalist)
Solo Exhibitions :
2024 ‘Home Sweet Home’ Oigall Projects, Melbourne
2023 ‘Saturn Devouring’ Oigall Projects, Melbourne
2022 ‘Natural Intensities’ Scott Lawrie Gallery, Auckland NZ
2022 ‘Youth’s Ephemera’ Vaulted Treasures, Blackartprojects, Melbourne
2021 ‘The Crudes’ Scott Lawrie Gallery, Auckland NZ
2020 ‘Sunset Roads II : Breaking Dawn’ Blackartprojects, Melbourne
2020 ‘Sunset Roads’ Blackartprojects, Melbourne
2019 ‘The Worlds of Quinn Mallory’ The Vivian, Auckland NZ
2018 ‘New Skin for an Old Ceremony’ The Vivian, Auckland NZ
2017 ‘An arbitrary device in the belly of a whale’ Fort Delta, Melbourne
2016 ‘Smile’ Fort Delta, Melbourne
2015 ‘Moonface’ Stockroom, Kyneton
2014 ‘Holy $#!T’ Rubicon ARI, Nth Melbourne
2013 ‘Puny Humans’ Blender, Melbourne
2011 ‘I am flying through boundless space’ Paradise Hills, Richmond
2010 ‘In Anticipation of Rotten Teeth’ Trocadero, Footscray
2009 ‘A River of Dead Men’ SUB12, Substation Newport
2009 ‘The Waiting Room’ The Owl & The Pussycat
2009 ‘Escaping The Cage’ Shifted, Richmond
2006 ‘Looking at Things’ Viewing Space, Melbourne
2005 ‘Semantics, Pranks & Acrobatics’ Faculty Gallery, Monash University
2004 ‘New Works’ Atrium Gallery, Monash University
Group Exhibitions :
2025 Melbourne Art Fair VIP presentation, Oigall Projects, Melbourne
2024 ‘it’s not dead, it’s just resting’ Scott Lawrie Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2024 ‘If the zoo bans me from yelling at the animals then i will face god and walk backwards into hell’ Oigall Projects, Melbourne
2023 ‘Unearthly Delights’ {Suite}, Auckland NZ
2022 ‘Conversations’ Honey Bones Gallery, Melbourne
2022 ‘Aotearoa Art Fair’ , (Scott Lawrie Gallery) The Cloud, Auckland NZ
2022 ‘Sensation_22’ Scott Lawrie Gallery, Auckland NZ
2022 ‘Don’t Blame Me, When You’re Train Gets Lost ’ Kingston Arts, Moorabbin
2021 ‘Sydney Contemporary’ (Blackartprojects), Sydney
2021 ‘Spring 1883’ Hotel Windsor (Blackartprojects) , Melbourne
2021 ‘Don’t Blame Me, When You’re Train Gets Lost ’ Stockroom, Kyneton
2019 ‘Spring 1883’ (Scott Lawrie Gallery) The Establishment, Sydney
2019 ‘Towards the Forest’ The Vivian, Auckland NZ
2018 ‘Ghosts of Electricity’ Smoke the Moon, Los Angeles USA
2018 ‘Doug Moran National Portrait Prize’, Juniper Hall, Sydney
2018 ‘Crocodility’ Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora
2017 ‘Spring 1883’ (Fort Delta) Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
2016 ‘Slippery Stories’ Durden & Ray, Los Angeles USA
2016 ‘Slippery Stories’ Strange Neighbour, Melbourne
2015 ‘Doug Moran National Portrait Prize’, Juniper Hall, Sydney
2015 ‘Umbelliferous Portraits’ (with Michael Vale) Rubicon ARI, Nth Melbourne
2015 ‘Ronald Greenaway – Artist and his world’ Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn
2015 ‘Future Process’ Artereal Gallery, Rozelle NSW
2015 ‘So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness’ Tristian Keonig, Melbourne
2014 ‘Either Side’ James Makin Gallery, Collingwood
2014 ‘Through a Hole in the Sky’ Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda
2014 ‘Street and Art Collide’ Shoalhaven Art Centre, Nowra NSW
2014 ‘Lateral Liminal’ Monday Week, Carlton
2013 ‘Small Works’ James Makin Gallery, Collingwood
2013 ‘Static Shift’ James Makin Gallery, Collingwood
2012 ‘Annual Blender Studios exhibition’ Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne
2012 2nd Birthday Fundraiser Paradise Hills, Richmond
2012 ‘A selection of Blender artists’ Motorworks Gallery, Melbourne Grammar
2012 ‘Dark Matter_Dark Energy’ Stockroom, Kyneton
2012 ‘Confine’ Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne
2012 ‘Skin : Contemporary Portrait Exhibition’ Poimena Gallery, Launceston, TAS
2012 ‘Us and Them’ Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne
2011 1st Birthday Fundraiser Paradise Hills, Richmond
2011 Belle Arti Prize Chapman & Bailey, Abbotsford
2011 ‘The Rest is Silence’ Death Be Kind, Brunswick
2010 ‘Kings x Kings’ Kings ARI, Melbourne
2010 ‘The Outsider’ Trocadero, Footscray
2009 ‘Gallery Launch The Owl & The Pussycat’, Richmond
2009 ‘Dappled Cities Listening Party’, Richmond
2009 ‘Off The Wall’ Exhibition Buildings, Carlton
2008 ‘Seventh Gallery Fundraiser’, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy
2008 ‘Bus:Pass’ Fundraiser Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2008 ‘ANL Maritime Art Prize’ Mission to Seafarers, Docklands
2008 ‘New Directions’ Karstens Gallery at QC, Melbourne
2008 ‘Real Estate’ Edward St, Brunswick
2008 ‘Headset/Mindset’ The Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn
2007 ‘ANL Maritime Art Prize’ Mission to Seafarers, Docklands
2005 ‘New Works’ Circus Bar, Prahran
2004 ‘Neoteric Atmosphere’ The Foundry, Fitzroy
2003 ‘Stir’ Gamma Space, Melbourne
2002 ‘New Emerging Artists’ Mira Fine Art, Melbourne
2002 ‘Repetition’ Red Box Gallery, Collingwood
2002 ‘Gallery Launch’ Red Box Gallery, Collingwood
2001 ‘Price Check On Fresh Produce’ Monash University, (HONS)
2000 ‘Fast Lane Exit’ Monash University
Publications:
‘Natural Intensities’ Catalogue Essay, Andrew Paul Wood, October 2022
Editorial ‘Vault Magazine’ May 2021
‘The Crudes’ Catalogue Essay, Andrew Paul Wood, May 2021
‘For Laughter’s Sake’ Catalogue Essay, Andrew Paul Wood, February 2019
‘Under the Radar’ Australian Art Collector, June 2016
‘Around the Galleries’ Dan Rule, The Age, Melbourne, October 3, 2015
‘Puny Humans’ Self Published 2013
‘The Rest is Silence’ Death Be Kind 2009-2011, E.Richardson, C.Lambe 2011
‘Welcome to Paradise’ Paradise Hills Gallery 2011
Collections:
Works held in Private collections internationally and throughout Australia.