Over the 'Lockdown' period I presented a series of live demonstrations on the internet called Sanity Saver Demos. Initially it started as a project to invite people into my studio to combat the feeling of isolation and inability to teach face to face. People joined me from all over the world as the internet does. These were random demos, just catching me in the studio making my little observances in a form of daily ritual to maintain a rythmn and pulse to life that other wise a vacuous and fearful exisitance. There was a shock of seeing myself on camera and realising how I felt was how I looked and so a process of 'covering up' began. This personal camoflage also started to appear in my work where I started to take paintings and copy them via acetone transfer and re print them working over with paint and print. The internal structure was now veiled by layers of copy and manipulation sheilding me from the outside world. 

NICKI HEENAN 

Born : London 1963

New Zealand 1972 – 2001

Australia 2001 – 2004

London 2004 –

Education

1985 Master of Science (Hons) University of Auckland, NZ

2001 independent study Sienna, Italy

2002 North Shore School of Art, Sydney, Australia

2002 – 2004 Studio Atelier Charlie Sheard Sydney, Australia

2004/2005 Slade foundation summer school

2006 – 2007 Workshop leadership training Goldsmiths, London

2010 Masterclass Stephen Quiller, Scotland

2013 Masterclass Watercolour Stephen Quiller, Ireland

2014 Ballinglen Rebecca Crowell, Ireland

2015/2017 Ballinglen Professor Andrew Wykes, Ireland

Grants/Awards

Art in Embassy Programme USA - work chosen by Ambassador to Ireland 2019

Awarded RWSW 2019

Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship October 2016

Ballinglen Arts Foundation Residency May 2016 - 2020

Published in Cold Wax Methods and Materials – 2017

Winner Tetbury Art Society Anniversary Competition 2017

Work published by English Heritage, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Memoria Building. Sligo Ireland

2018 The Crossley Gallery - Defining Elemental (group show)

2017 LT Gallery, Weston-super-Mare

2017 Little Buckland Gallery, Worcesteshire

2016 Malmesbury Town Hall Gallery

2014 Malmesbury Town Hall, Luckington , UK

2013 Bath, Hookshouse Tetbury, UK

2012 Bath, UK

2010 Malmesbury Town Hall, UK

2009 Malmesbury Town Hall, UK

2003 Bac Up Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2002 Millwood Gallery, Wellington, NZ

2002 NZFA New Zealand Academy of Fine Art

1999 St Saturin, Provence, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour Open

2019 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour Open 

2018 Royal institute of Painters in Watercolour Open

2017 Royal Society of British Artists – Mall Galleries, London Royal

Institute of Watercolours – Mall Galleries, London, NEAC – Mall

Galleries, London

2016 Sky Landscape Artist of the Year selected

2016 A2 Gallery, Wells

2015 NEAC, Mall Galleries, London

2015 Chelsea Art Society Summer Exhibition

2015 Suvretta House, Switzerland

2014 Suvretta House, Switzerland

2013 – 2015 Tetbury Art Society,

2013 – 2014 Malmesbury Art Society (Chair)

2005 Slade Summer School Exhibition

2004 Slade Summer School Exhibition

2003 MLC Gallery, Sydney

2003 Mosman Art Gallery

2000 NZAFA

1999 New Zealand Academy of Fine Art – NZAFA

Employment

Art Master and Lecturer Suvretta House, St Moritz, Switzerland

2014 –

Lund Studios - workshop leader

Art in the Open Wexford, Ireland Guest instructor 2018, 2020 postponed 

Art Workshop and Art Educator, based Wiltshire – UK 2009 –

Pianist Highgrove, HRH Prince of Wales 2006 – 2019