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)
Exhibitions : Solo (selected):
2021 ‘The Crudes’ Scott Lawrie Gallery, Auckland NZ
2020 ‘Sunset Roads II : Breaking Dawn’ Blackartprojects, Melbourne
2020 ‘Sunset Roads’ Blackartsprojects, Melbourne
2019 ‘Worlds of Quinn Mallory’ The Vivian, New Zealand
2019 ‘Worlds of Quinn Mallory’ (PREVIEW) Chamber, Melbourne
2017 ‘An arbitrary device in the belly of a whale’ Fort Delta, Melbourne
2016 ‘Smile’ Fort Delta, Melbourne
2015 ‘MoonFace’ Stockroom, Kyneton
2014 ‘Holy $#!✞!’ Rubicon ARI, Nth 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 ‘Escaping The Cage’ Shifted, Richmond
2006 ‘Looking at Things’ Viewing Space, Melbourne
2005 ‘Semantics, Pranks & Acrobatics’ Faculty Gallery, Monash University
Exhibitions : Group (selected)
2021 ‘Sydney Contemporary’ Blackartprojects (Online, Sydney)
2021 ‘Spring1883’ Blackartprojects (Online, Melbourne)
2021 ‘Don’t Blame Me When Your Train Gets Lost’ Stockroom, Kyneton
2019 ‘Towards the Forest’ The Vivian, NZ
2019 ‘Spring 1883’ The Vivian, The Establishment Sydney
2019 ‘Auckland Contemporary Art Fair’ Auckland, NZ
2018 ‘Crocodility’ Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
2018 ‘I Can Breed No More’ Chamber, Brunswick, Melbourne
2017 ‘Summer 40’ Rubicon, Nth Melbourne
2016 ‘Slippery Stories’ Strange Neighbour, Melbourne | Durden and Ray, Los Angeles USA
2015 ‘Umbelliferous Portraits’ (with Michael Vale) Rubicon ARI, Nth Melbourne
2015 ‘Other Side’ Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
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 Koenig Gallery, Collingwood
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 ‘Limits of Likeness’ Rubicon ARI, Nth Melbourne
2013 ‘Static Shift’ James Makin Gallery, Collingwood
2012 ‘Dark Matter_Dark Energy’ Stockroom, Kyneton
2012 ‘Skin : Contemporary Portrait Exhibition’ Poimena Gallery, Launceston, TAS
2012 ‘Us and Them’ Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne
2011 ‘The Rest is Silence’ Death Be Kind, Brunswick
2010 ‘Kings x Kings’ Kings ARI, Melbourne
2010 ‘The Outsider’ Trocadero, Footscray
2009 ‘Off The Wall’ Exhibition Buildings, Carlton
Publications:
Vault Magazine, ‘The Crudes’ May 2021
‘The Crudes’ Andrew Paul Wood, 2021
‘Worlds of Quinn Mallory’ Andrew Paul Wood, 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 within Australian & Internationally.