NICOLA BAILEY
(b.1965 Durban, South Africa)

A multi-media interdisciplinary artist, Bailey began her art tuition in 1997 at Ruth Prowse Art College in Cape Town South Africa. Since 2008 she has been part of an art collective founded by artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, collectively known as Rosenclaire which is based in both Florence Italy and South Africa.

‘My practice engages with ideas of interspecies relationships in the domestic environment, exploring the intimacy and tender nature of companion species and making visible our entangled existence. ‘

At first blush, Bailey’s first solo was held in 2014 at The Culture Gallery at Woodstock Exchange Cape Town, South Africa. In 2020 she presented a solo And the Animal Responded for Cubicle Series at Everard Read Gallery Cape Town. The tenderness of ghosts opened May 2022, is Bailey’s first solo at Everard Read in Johannesburg.

Selected group exhibitions include Domestic departures at the Forge in Cape Town in 2011, In Good Company (curated by Michael Chandler) at The Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town in 2013. Art/Out of the Ordinary (curated by Marilyn Martin) at the Association of Visual Arts (AVA) in Cape Town. Conversations with Irma (curated by Christopher Peter) at The Irma Stern Museum in 2019. The most recent Seeds of the Fig is curated by RESERVOIR (in association with WHATIFTHEWORLD, on the Krone Estate Twee Jonge Gezellen Farm in Tulbagh, South Africa.

Living and working in Cape Town, Nicola’s artworks are collected both locally and internationally. 

EDUCATION

1984-86 Ruth Prowse Art College, Cape Town, South Africa

2008 – ongoing Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, collectively known as Rosenclaire

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023

The Other’s Warmth:  Group exhibition, Everard Read Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.

SOLO A Gentle Entanglement Everard Read Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.

2022

Seeds of the Fig: Group exhibition, WHATIFTHEWORLD X RESERVOIR, Twee Jonge Gezellen Farm, Tulbagh, South Africa.

Seduction: Group exhibition, Everard Read Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.

WINTER Group exhibition, Everard Read London, UK.

SOLO The tenderness of ghosts, Everard Read Gallery. Johannesburg, South Africa.

Things I want to remember: Group exhibition, Everard Read Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.

SUMMER Group exhibition, Everard Read London, UK.

2021      

OASIS 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Everard Read Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.

WINTER Group exhibition, Everard Read London, UK.

Art on Paper, Kalk Bay Modern. Cape Town South Africa.

2020      

SUMMER Group exhibition, Everard Read Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.

SOLO And the Animal Responded, Cubicle Series, Everard Read Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.

2019      

Conversations with Irma, Irma Stern Museum. Cape Town, South Africa.

2018      

Art on Paper, Kalk Bay Modern. Cape Town, South Africa.

2017      

Mixed Metaphors, The Forge. Kalk Bay. Cape Town, South Africa.

2016      

Art|Out of the Ordinary, AVA Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.

2014      

SOLO At first Blush, The Culture Gallery, Woodstock. Cape Town, South Africa.

2013

My Mothers Garden, Arts on Main. Johannesburg, South Africa.

In Good Company, Irma Stern Museum. Cape Town, South Africa.

2012

Domestic departures, Kalk Bay Modern. Cape Town, South Africa.

COLLECTIONS

The Enthoven Collection, South Africa.

Gerry Fox Collection, UK.

The R Oppenheimer Collection, South Africa.

The H Rupert Collection, South Africa.

J Roux Collection, South Africa.

The White Rabit Gallery Collection, Sydney, Australia.