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Nicola

Neate

Disciplines: Sculpture

Location: ISLE OF NORTH UIST

Materials: Assemblage

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Nicola Neate is a multidisciplinary artist working across fine art printmaking, photography, sculpture, and socially engaged practice. Trained in painting, printmaking, and photography (MA Fine Art Printmaking, Camberwell; PGDip Photography, Sunderland; BA Fine Art Painting, Ravensbourne), her work explores landscape, ecological relationships, and the social histories embedded in place. Alongside her two-dimensional work, Neate creates sculptural assemblages using found and sourced materials, often drawing on environmental narratives and site-specific research. These sculptural works frequently accompany her photographic and print-based projects, extending her interest in materiality, memory, and the layers of human and non-human presence within landscapes.

Previous Experience

From 2019–2024 I undertook a collaborative photographic residency in the Outer Hebrides with artist John Kippin, culminating in exhibitions at Taigh Chearsabhagh, NGCA and a publication with Kerber Verlag. My engagement with island communities informs my activist and community-focused practice. As Social Media Manager for the Campaign Against the North Uist Spaceport (2022–2024), I coordinated digital outreach and was featured in The Guardian and an Arte documentary highlighting local resistance. My work has been exhibited widely in the UK, Canada, and Europe, with selections for major print exchanges, group shows, and environmental commissions. I was awarded a Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award (VACMA) in 2025. As a dedicated educator, I have taught across universities, colleges, art centres, and community settings, including extensive workshop delivery and technical support in print and darkroom processes. Collaboration, experimental making, and an ongoing inquiry into place and material are central to my art practice.

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