Biography & Curriculum Vitae
Nicole Welch on location at the Fish River for the Mementos series 2018
“I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia on which I have made this work and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.
I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.” – Nicole Welch
Biography
Lives and works in Regional NSW.
All works are made on location in the Australian landscape.
Nicole Welch’s in-situ LAND & BODY works explore personal, cultural and environmental histories, echoing the symbiotic relationship we have with an enduring natural world, and our ephemeral place within it. They are physical, personal and local, while simultaneously archetypal and universal. An illuminated dark wildness in the imagery echoes hidden undercurrents and tensions: pushing boundaries between reality and illusion, while reaching for resolution through an exploration of landscape and body.
Welch’s process involves traversing through areas of bushland, where she locates significant locations to create her compositions using large-scale projectors, generators, research-inspired objects and in camera technologies. Recorded on location these installations result in incongruous photographic and moving image works that record at once both past and present ideologies.
Welch has been invited to show in numerous exhibitions nationally and most recently internationally. In 2019 Welch’s film Wildēornes Body was selected for the 5th International Motion Festival Cyprus. In 2018 she was a featured artist for ArtState NSW, making two new works, Transformation and Mementos.
Solo exhibitions include MAY SPACE/Brenda May Gallery (2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013), Blue Mountains Cultural Centre (2017), Murray Art Museum Albury (2015), Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (2016, 2012, 2007), Glasshouse Port Macquarie (2018), the University of Wollongong (2008) and the Canberra School of Art (1998). Welch has invited to participate in numerous curated exhibitions nationally and has been a finalist in many awards and prizes including the Blake Prize, the Grace Cossington Smith Art Award (2018) and the National Photography Prize (2016).
Welch’s exhibition Apparitions (2014) progressed her conceptual and technical ideas exceptionally, seeing works enter the collections of Artbank, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and a major corporate collection. Welch’s works are also in the collections of Art Gallery of Ballarat, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Murray Art Museum Albury, Parliament House Art Collection Canberra, Macquarie Group, Canberra School of Art (ANU), Harris Farm Market’s Collection and the National Library of Australia, among others.
As Welch creates location inspired work, it lends itself to immersive residencies and site-related projects. This has led to her completing residencies at The CORRIDOR Project Google Creative LAB (2021), The CORRIDOR Project (2020), the Bilpin international ground for Creative initiatives (2016) and Hill End (2014, 2010) as well as multiple commissions, including a large-scale piece for the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre (2013). Welch has also won the Windmill Trust Scholarship (2011), the Harris Farm Markets Acquisitive Art Award (2010), the Studio One Residency Award (1998), the Megalo Access Residency Award (1998) and the Chamberlains Law Firm Acquisition Award (1998).
Welch’s future project AS ABOVE SO BELOW has been generously supported by both the Regional Arts Fund – Regional Arts NSW and NAVA Artists’ Grant. This new series will be exhibited at the newly build Orange Regional Gallery in 2023.
Welch is on the Board for the CEMENTA Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos and is a lecturer in Creative Ideation – Arts, Media & Design at the Western Institute of TAFE, Orange & Bathurst.
Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Nicole Welch Interruptions and Illuminations, ARTEREAL GALLERY, Syd, NSW
2020 Yarrahapinni, MAY SPACE, Sydney
2019 Black Box Projects Presents, Nicole Welch, MAY SPACE, Syd
2019 Stillness & Motion: Nicole Welch, Curated by Courtney Wagner, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Syd, NSW
2019 TRANSFORMATION, MAY SPACE, Syd, NSW
2018 TRANSFORMATION (featured artist), Tremains Mill curated by Adam Deusien, ArtState NSW, Bathurst, NSW
2018 Nicole Welch, Black Box Projects 2018, MAY SPACE, Syd
2018 Silence & Solitude: selected works from Eastern Interiors curated by Bridget Purtill, Glasshouse Port Macquarie
2017 Wildēornes Land , MAY SPACE, Syd
2017 Wildēornes Land curated by Sabrina Roesner, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW.
2016 Eastern Interiors: explorations from Bathurst to Albury curated by Sarah Gurich, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2015 Eastern Interiors: explorations from Bathurst to Albury, travelling exhibition curated by Bianca Acimovic, Brenda May Gallery Sydney, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
2014 Apparitions, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2013 Illumination, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2013 Illumination, Jean Bellette Gallery curated by Sarah Gurich, Hill End
2012 Illumination: New Work by Nicole Welch curated by Richard Perram, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2008 Stealing Beauty, FCA Gallery, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
2007 Stealing Beauty, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Photography & Printmaking, CBD Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2023 WEST OF CENTRAL, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2023 From the Studio, the Artists of Hill End, Hill End Art Gallery, NSW
2023 Beating About The Bush, Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC
2022 Wiradyuri Ngayirr Ngurambang – Sacred Country, a collaboration Nicole Welch, Wiradyuri Elder Wirribee Leanna Carr-Smith, & Kate Smith, Bathurst Winter Festival, Tremains Mill, Bathurst, NSW
2022 Night Lab Bedtime Stories, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA
2020 Sydney Contemporary Presents – MAY SPACE, online Art fair 2020
2020 Kangaroo Valley Art Prize, Kangaroo Valley Hall Gallery, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
2020 Listening in the Anthropocene, H R Gallery, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW
2019-20 The Manly Dam Project curated by Katherine Roberts, Manly Gallery & Museum, Syd, NSW
2019-20 Altered States – Tamara Dean & Nicole Welch curated by Bridget Macleod, Sholahaven Regional Gallery, Nowra, NSW
2019 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
2019 (Finalist) Naked & Nude Art Prize, Manning Regional Gallery, Taree, NSW
2019 5th International Motion Festival Cyprus 2019, European University Cyprus
2018 Grace Cossington Smith Art Award 2018, GCS Gallery, Syd
2018 ArtState Regional Arts Conference, Mementos series, Bathurst, NSW
2018 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
2017 Windmill 20th Anniversary Retrospective, Murray Art Museum Albury.
2017 Go West, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW.
2017 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
2017 CEMENTA 17, Kandos Contemporary Arts Festival, NSW
2017 MAY SPACE: FOURTEEN, MAY SPACE, Syd
2015 30 Years | 30 Artists | 30 Works, Brenda May Gallery, Syd
2015 Love. Lament. Loss., Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2015 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2015 Collectors Edition #2, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
2015 BRAG 200×200, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2014 Elephant in the Room, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2014 (Finalist) Kennedy Prize, Stomping Ground Studios, SA
2014 Green, Lewers Learning Centre, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
2014 The Third Wave: Two Decades of the Hill End Artists in Residence Program, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2014 Landscape, a group exhibition, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2013 Christmas Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2013 Wilson Art Award, Lismore
2013 Art on paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Finalist, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2013 Plan B, Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2012 CLIP Award, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2012 Head On Portrait Prize, Australian centre for Photography, Sydney
2012 Flannery Centre Art Prize, Bathurst
2012 2012 Year of the Dragon, B Block Gallery, Orange
2010 Harris Farm Markets $5000 Acquisitive Art Prize, Winner, Bathurst City Gallery
2009 New Figuration, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Printing Figuratively, Port Jackson Press, Centre for Australian Printmaking, Melbourne
2007 OUT OF THE BLUE into the void, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange
2007 56th Blake Prize for Religious Art, The Gallery, National Art School, Darlinghurst
2007 The presence of things: sense, veneer and guise, touring exhibition. Faculty Gallery: Monash University, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Ararat Gallery, Tamworth Regional Gallery
2006 A kiss is a stitch- prelude to a broken heart, Nicole Welch & Karen Golland, Warpstanza Gallery, Bathurst
2006 House of Flowers, Installation at Miss Traill’s House, Bathurst
2006 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Pressing Issues, print symposium, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2005 Art on paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Hazelhurst
2005 New Works-Nicole Welch & Ruth Stone, Warpstanza Gallery, Bathurst
2004 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Soft Obsessive Violation, Spiral Arm Gallery, Kingston
1999 Substance-Emerging Artists 99, ANCA Gallery, Canberra, NCG-Not Conceptually Grounded, Print Folio, Studio One, Canberra
1998 Ex’cita-Graduatiing Exhibition, Canberra School of Art ANU, Canberra
1996 Multiple Visions, ANCA Gallery, Canberra
Collections
Artbank
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Macquarie Group Collection
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Canberra School of Art Collection, ANU
Greater Western Area Health Service, Health NSW
Harris Farm Markets Collection
Murray Art Museum Albury
National Library Of Australia
Parliament House Art Collection
Private Collections
Education
2016 Masters of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University NSW, Sydney
2000 Grad.Dip Edu Art & Design, University of Canberra
1998 BA Visual Arts (Printmaking) with Honours (First Class), Canberra School of Art, Australian National University
1996 Japan Student Arts Exchange Program, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
1993 Certificate Fine Art, Western Institute of TAFE, Bathurst
Awards . Residencies . Commissions
2021 Artist GOOGLE Creative Lab Residency, CORRIDOR Project, Cowra, NSW
2020 Regional Arts Fund Grant 2021 – Regional Arts NSW
2020 Recipient of NAVA Artists’ Grant
2020 (Finalist) Kangaroo Valley Art Prize, Kangaroo Valley Hall Gallery, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
2020 Artist Residency CORRIDOR AIR + PD LAB, CORRIDOR Project, Cowra, NSW
2019 (Finalist) Naked & Nude Art Prize, Manning Regional Gallery, Taree, NSW
2019 (Finalist) 5th International Motion Festival Cyprus 2019, European University Cyprus
2018 (Featured Artist), ArtState Regional Arts Conference, Bathurst, NSW
2018 (Finalist) Grace Cossington Smith Art Award 2018, GCS Gallery, Syd
2016 (Finalist) MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize 2016, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW
2014 Artist in Residence at Hill End, NSW
2014 Kennedy Prize, Stomping Ground Studios, SA, Finalist
2013 Wilson Art Award, Lismore, Finalist
2013 Art on paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Finalist,
2013 Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Commission, permanent artwork for the foyer
2012 APACHE CLIP Award for contemporary landscape photography, Perth Centre for Photography, Finalist
2012 Head On Portrait Prize, Australian centre for Photography, Shortlisted
2012 Flannery Centre Art Prize, Finalist
2011 Recipient of the Windmill Trust Scholarship for a Regional NSW Artist
2010 Harris Farm Markets $5000 Acquisitive Art Award, Winner
2010 Recipient, Country Energy Funded Residency Awarded; Artists in Residence program Hill End, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2008 Royal Doulton & Jenolan Caves Plate design Commission
2008 Bathurst Base Hospital Commission, Installation of three light boxes for the Intensive Care Unit waiting room. Greater Western Area Health Service, Health NSW
2007 Blake Prize for Religious Art, Finalist,
2005 Art on paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Finalist, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Finalist
2004 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Finalist, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne, Finalist
2002 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Finalist, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne, Finalist
2000 Artist Grant, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
1998 Studio One Residency Award, Emerging Artist Support Scheme, ANU
1998 Megalo Access Residency Award, Emerging Artist Support Scheme, ANU
1998 Chamberlains Law Firm Acquisition Award, Emerging Artist Support Scheme, ANU
Publications . Catalogues . Reviews
Gibson, Suzie. Review. “How a new art project in Bathurst is embracing the many identities of the town – ‘Wiradyuri Ngayirr Ngurambang – Sacred Country’ , The Conversation, 8 July, 2022
Fairley, Gina. Review: “Manly Dam Project, Manly Art Gallery
(NSW)”, ArtsHub, 16 January, 2020
Roberts, Katherine, Ian Turner. “Manly Dam Project” catalogue,
Manly Art Gallery & Museum, 6 December, 2019
“Altered States” catalogue, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery,
Nowra, 30 November, 2019
Walsh, Elli. “Nicole Welch.” Artist Profile, 20 February, 2019
ArtsHub Review: Jason Wing and Nicole Welch, 4.5 stars, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, 2018
Fairley, Gina. “Making it as a regional artist – the realities and
the wins”, ArtsHub, 16 November, 2018
“Artstate Bathurst”, Art Almanac, October, p.16. (illustrated), 2018
Telford, Laura. “Media artist Nicole Welch explores the colonial
history of the Blue Mountains in exhibition at The Glasshouse.”,
Port Macquarie News, 12 October, 2018
Wolifson, Chloé, “Nicole Welch: Wildēornes Land.” Artlink
(online), 6 May, 2017
“Episode 1: Cementa17 Festival & Regional Arts.” NAVA: In
Conversation (podcast), 26 April, 2017
(illustrated) “Galleries on the move.” Art Almanac, March
2017, p.22, 2017
Clement, Tracey. “Fourteen”, Art Guide Australia, March/April,
p.47, 2017
Milton, Katie. “The Planner/Yeah. Cheers. Thanks a lot.” SMH,
26-27 November, p.25, 2016
Hill, Emma. “Environment art is no longer just a political voice but images that stoke the heart with passion.” Western Advocate, 9 July. 2016
“20 things to see, hear. Art | 30 Years | 30 Artists | 30 Works”, SMH (The Shortlist), 4 Dec, p.2. 2015
“30 Years | 30 Artists | 30 Works”, Art Almanac, December/January, p.36. 2015
Johnston, David. “Table Top Mountain features in Nicole Welch MAMA exhibition.” The Border Mail, 23 November. 2015
Nicole Welch: New Work by Nicole Welch, Exhibition Catalogue, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. 2012
Nicole Welch, Stealing Beauty exhibition review, Imprint Magazine. Spring 2007
Out of the blue, Central Western Daily. October 27th 2007
Stealing Beauty, Imprint Magazine. Spring Edition 2007
Emerging artist steals the scene at the regional gallery, Western Advocate May. 19th 2007
Happening Women in Australia & New Zealand Ken Ball, Everbest Printing China. 2007
View Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. May 2007
Presence of things review, Craft Victoria. 2007
Welcome ghosts from the past Mildura Independent Star. 9th Feburary 2007
Feat of natural beauty, Western Advocate. October 26th 2006
Sense, Veneer and Guise, Vogue Living. June 2006
Focus On Pressing Issues, Western Times. January 12th 2006
Up Front Country Style Magazine. July 2005
New Works, Imprint Magazine Review. Winter Edition 2005
Art Profile, Warp TV. Episode 11 2005
Focus Artist, Prime TV, 1st April. 2005
Silkcut Award, Finalist Catalogue. 2004
Imprint Magazine, Summer Edition. 2003
Silkcut Award, Finalist Catalogue. 2002
Soft Obsessive Violation. Exhibition Catalogue 2000
Canberra Times Review. June 24th 2000
Substance Emerging Artist, Catalogue. 1999
Excita, Canberra School of Art Graduating Student Exhibition Catalogue. 1998
Teaching
2004 – 2024 Facilitator/teacher, Visual Arts, Design & Photography, Creative Industries Western Institute of TAFE, Bathurst & Orange Campus, NSW, Australia
Board Member
2019 -2023 CEMENTA Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos
Nicole Welch on location at the Fish River for the Mementos series 2018
“I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia on which I have made this work and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.
I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.” – Nicole Welch
Biography
Lives and works in Regional NSW.
All works are made on location in the Australian landscape.
Nicole Welch’s in-situ LAND & BODY works explore personal, cultural and environmental histories, echoing the symbiotic relationship we have with an enduring natural world, and our ephemeral place within it. They are physical, personal and local, while simultaneously archetypal and universal. An illuminated dark wildness in the imagery echoes hidden undercurrents and tensions: pushing boundaries between reality and illusion, while reaching for resolution through an exploration of landscape and body.
Welch’s process involves traversing through areas of bushland, where she locates significant locations to create her compositions using large-scale projectors, generators, research-inspired objects and in camera technologies. Recorded on location these installations result in incongruous photographic and moving image works that record at once both past and present ideologies.
Welch has been invited to show in numerous exhibitions nationally and most recently internationally. In 2019 Welch’s film Wildēornes Body was selected for the 5th International Motion Festival Cyprus. In 2018 she was a featured artist for ArtState NSW, making two new works, Transformation and Mementos.
Solo exhibitions include MAY SPACE/Brenda May Gallery (2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013), Blue Mountains Cultural Centre (2017), Murray Art Museum Albury (2015), Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (2016, 2012, 2007), Glasshouse Port Macquarie (2018), the University of Wollongong (2008) and the Canberra School of Art (1998). Welch has invited to participate in numerous curated exhibitions nationally and has been a finalist in many awards and prizes including the Blake Prize, the Grace Cossington Smith Art Award (2018) and the National Photography Prize (2016).
Welch’s exhibition Apparitions (2014) progressed her conceptual and technical ideas exceptionally, seeing works enter the collections of Artbank, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and a major corporate collection. Welch’s works are also in the collections of Art Gallery of Ballarat, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Murray Art Museum Albury, Parliament House Art Collection Canberra, Macquarie Group, Canberra School of Art (ANU), Harris Farm Market’s Collection and the National Library of Australia, among others.
As Welch creates location inspired work, it lends itself to immersive residencies and site-related projects. This has led to her completing residencies at The CORRIDOR Project Google Creative LAB (2021), The CORRIDOR Project (2020), the Bilpin international ground for Creative initiatives (2016) and Hill End (2014, 2010) as well as multiple commissions, including a large-scale piece for the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre (2013). Welch has also won the Windmill Trust Scholarship (2011), the Harris Farm Markets Acquisitive Art Award (2010), the Studio One Residency Award (1998), the Megalo Access Residency Award (1998) and the Chamberlains Law Firm Acquisition Award (1998).
Welch’s future project AS ABOVE SO BELOW has been generously supported by both the Regional Arts Fund – Regional Arts NSW and NAVA Artists’ Grant. This new series will be exhibited at the newly build Orange Regional Gallery in 2023.
Welch is on the Board for the CEMENTA Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos and is a lecturer in Creative Ideation – Arts, Media & Design at the Western Institute of TAFE, Orange & Bathurst.
Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Nicole Welch Interruptions and Illuminations, ARTEREAL GALLERY, Syd, NSW
2020 Yarrahapinni, MAY SPACE, Sydney
2019 Black Box Projects Presents, Nicole Welch, MAY SPACE, Syd
2019 Stillness & Motion: Nicole Welch, Curated by Courtney Wagner, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Syd, NSW
2019 TRANSFORMATION, MAY SPACE, Syd, NSW
2018 TRANSFORMATION (featured artist), Tremains Mill curated by Adam Deusien, ArtState NSW, Bathurst, NSW
2018 Nicole Welch, Black Box Projects 2018, MAY SPACE, Syd
2018 Silence & Solitude: selected works from Eastern Interiors curated by Bridget Purtill, Glasshouse Port Macquarie
2017 Wildēornes Land , MAY SPACE, Syd
2017 Wildēornes Land curated by Sabrina Roesner, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW.
2016 Eastern Interiors: explorations from Bathurst to Albury curated by Sarah Gurich, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2015 Eastern Interiors: explorations from Bathurst to Albury, travelling exhibition curated by Bianca Acimovic, Brenda May Gallery Sydney, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
2014 Apparitions, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2013 Illumination, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2013 Illumination, Jean Bellette Gallery curated by Sarah Gurich, Hill End
2012 Illumination: New Work by Nicole Welch curated by Richard Perram, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2008 Stealing Beauty, FCA Gallery, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
2007 Stealing Beauty, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Photography & Printmaking, CBD Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2023 WEST OF CENTRAL, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2023 From the Studio, the Artists of Hill End, Hill End Art Gallery, NSW
2023 Beating About The Bush, Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC
2022 Wiradyuri Ngayirr Ngurambang – Sacred Country, a collaboration Nicole Welch, Wiradyuri Elder Wirribee Leanna Carr-Smith, & Kate Smith, Bathurst Winter Festival, Tremains Mill, Bathurst, NSW
2022 Night Lab Bedtime Stories, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA
2020 Sydney Contemporary Presents – MAY SPACE, online Art fair 2020
2020 Kangaroo Valley Art Prize, Kangaroo Valley Hall Gallery, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
2020 Listening in the Anthropocene, H R Gallery, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW
2019-20 The Manly Dam Project curated by Katherine Roberts, Manly Gallery & Museum, Syd, NSW
2019-20 Altered States – Tamara Dean & Nicole Welch curated by Bridget Macleod, Sholahaven Regional Gallery, Nowra, NSW
2019 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
2019 (Finalist) Naked & Nude Art Prize, Manning Regional Gallery, Taree, NSW
2019 5th International Motion Festival Cyprus 2019, European University Cyprus
2018 Grace Cossington Smith Art Award 2018, GCS Gallery, Syd
2018 ArtState Regional Arts Conference, Mementos series, Bathurst, NSW
2018 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
2017 Windmill 20th Anniversary Retrospective, Murray Art Museum Albury.
2017 Go West, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW.
2017 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
2017 CEMENTA 17, Kandos Contemporary Arts Festival, NSW
2017 MAY SPACE: FOURTEEN, MAY SPACE, Syd
2015 30 Years | 30 Artists | 30 Works, Brenda May Gallery, Syd
2015 Love. Lament. Loss., Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2015 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2015 Collectors Edition #2, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
2015 BRAG 200×200, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2014 Elephant in the Room, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2014 (Finalist) Kennedy Prize, Stomping Ground Studios, SA
2014 Green, Lewers Learning Centre, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
2014 The Third Wave: Two Decades of the Hill End Artists in Residence Program, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2014 Landscape, a group exhibition, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2013 Christmas Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
2013 Wilson Art Award, Lismore
2013 Art on paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Finalist, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2013 Plan B, Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2012 CLIP Award, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2012 Head On Portrait Prize, Australian centre for Photography, Sydney
2012 Flannery Centre Art Prize, Bathurst
2012 2012 Year of the Dragon, B Block Gallery, Orange
2010 Harris Farm Markets $5000 Acquisitive Art Prize, Winner, Bathurst City Gallery
2009 New Figuration, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Printing Figuratively, Port Jackson Press, Centre for Australian Printmaking, Melbourne
2007 OUT OF THE BLUE into the void, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange
2007 56th Blake Prize for Religious Art, The Gallery, National Art School, Darlinghurst
2007 The presence of things: sense, veneer and guise, touring exhibition. Faculty Gallery: Monash University, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Ararat Gallery, Tamworth Regional Gallery
2006 A kiss is a stitch- prelude to a broken heart, Nicole Welch & Karen Golland, Warpstanza Gallery, Bathurst
2006 House of Flowers, Installation at Miss Traill’s House, Bathurst
2006 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Pressing Issues, print symposium, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2005 Art on paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Hazelhurst
2005 New Works-Nicole Welch & Ruth Stone, Warpstanza Gallery, Bathurst
2004 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Soft Obsessive Violation, Spiral Arm Gallery, Kingston
1999 Substance-Emerging Artists 99, ANCA Gallery, Canberra, NCG-Not Conceptually Grounded, Print Folio, Studio One, Canberra
1998 Ex’cita-Graduatiing Exhibition, Canberra School of Art ANU, Canberra
1996 Multiple Visions, ANCA Gallery, Canberra
Collections
Artbank
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Macquarie Group Collection
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Canberra School of Art Collection, ANU
Greater Western Area Health Service, Health NSW
Harris Farm Markets Collection
Murray Art Museum Albury
National Library Of Australia
Parliament House Art Collection
Private Collections
Education
2016 Masters of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University NSW, Sydney
2000 Grad.Dip Edu Art & Design, University of Canberra
1998 BA Visual Arts (Printmaking) with Honours (First Class), Canberra School of Art, Australian National University
1996 Japan Student Arts Exchange Program, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
1993 Certificate Fine Art, Western Institute of TAFE, Bathurst
Awards . Residencies . Commissions
2021 Artist GOOGLE Creative Lab Residency, CORRIDOR Project, Cowra, NSW
2020 Regional Arts Fund Grant 2021 – Regional Arts NSW
2020 Recipient of NAVA Artists’ Grant
2020 (Finalist) Kangaroo Valley Art Prize, Kangaroo Valley Hall Gallery, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
2020 Artist Residency CORRIDOR AIR + PD LAB, CORRIDOR Project, Cowra, NSW
2019 (Finalist) Naked & Nude Art Prize, Manning Regional Gallery, Taree, NSW
2019 (Finalist) 5th International Motion Festival Cyprus 2019, European University Cyprus
2018 (Featured Artist), ArtState Regional Arts Conference, Bathurst, NSW
2018 (Finalist) Grace Cossington Smith Art Award 2018, GCS Gallery, Syd
2016 (Finalist) MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize 2016, Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW
2014 Artist in Residence at Hill End, NSW
2014 Kennedy Prize, Stomping Ground Studios, SA, Finalist
2013 Wilson Art Award, Lismore, Finalist
2013 Art on paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Finalist,
2013 Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Commission, permanent artwork for the foyer
2012 APACHE CLIP Award for contemporary landscape photography, Perth Centre for Photography, Finalist
2012 Head On Portrait Prize, Australian centre for Photography, Shortlisted
2012 Flannery Centre Art Prize, Finalist
2011 Recipient of the Windmill Trust Scholarship for a Regional NSW Artist
2010 Harris Farm Markets $5000 Acquisitive Art Award, Winner
2010 Recipient, Country Energy Funded Residency Awarded; Artists in Residence program Hill End, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2008 Royal Doulton & Jenolan Caves Plate design Commission
2008 Bathurst Base Hospital Commission, Installation of three light boxes for the Intensive Care Unit waiting room. Greater Western Area Health Service, Health NSW
2007 Blake Prize for Religious Art, Finalist,
2005 Art on paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Finalist, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Finalist
2004 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Finalist, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne, Finalist
2002 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Finalist, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne, Finalist
2000 Artist Grant, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
1998 Studio One Residency Award, Emerging Artist Support Scheme, ANU
1998 Megalo Access Residency Award, Emerging Artist Support Scheme, ANU
1998 Chamberlains Law Firm Acquisition Award, Emerging Artist Support Scheme, ANU
Publications . Catalogues . Reviews
Gibson, Suzie. Review. “How a new art project in Bathurst is embracing the many identities of the town – ‘Wiradyuri Ngayirr Ngurambang – Sacred Country’ , The Conversation, 8 July, 2022
Fairley, Gina. Review: “Manly Dam Project, Manly Art Gallery
(NSW)”, ArtsHub, 16 January, 2020
Roberts, Katherine, Ian Turner. “Manly Dam Project” catalogue,
Manly Art Gallery & Museum, 6 December, 2019
“Altered States” catalogue, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery,
Nowra, 30 November, 2019
Walsh, Elli. “Nicole Welch.” Artist Profile, 20 February, 2019
ArtsHub Review: Jason Wing and Nicole Welch, 4.5 stars, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, 2018
Fairley, Gina. “Making it as a regional artist – the realities and
the wins”, ArtsHub, 16 November, 2018
“Artstate Bathurst”, Art Almanac, October, p.16. (illustrated), 2018
Telford, Laura. “Media artist Nicole Welch explores the colonial
history of the Blue Mountains in exhibition at The Glasshouse.”,
Port Macquarie News, 12 October, 2018
Wolifson, Chloé, “Nicole Welch: Wildēornes Land.” Artlink
(online), 6 May, 2017
“Episode 1: Cementa17 Festival & Regional Arts.” NAVA: In
Conversation (podcast), 26 April, 2017
(illustrated) “Galleries on the move.” Art Almanac, March
2017, p.22, 2017
Clement, Tracey. “Fourteen”, Art Guide Australia, March/April,
p.47, 2017
Milton, Katie. “The Planner/Yeah. Cheers. Thanks a lot.” SMH,
26-27 November, p.25, 2016
Hill, Emma. “Environment art is no longer just a political voice but images that stoke the heart with passion.” Western Advocate, 9 July. 2016
“20 things to see, hear. Art | 30 Years | 30 Artists | 30 Works”, SMH (The Shortlist), 4 Dec, p.2. 2015
“30 Years | 30 Artists | 30 Works”, Art Almanac, December/January, p.36. 2015
Johnston, David. “Table Top Mountain features in Nicole Welch MAMA exhibition.” The Border Mail, 23 November. 2015
Nicole Welch: New Work by Nicole Welch, Exhibition Catalogue, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. 2012
Nicole Welch, Stealing Beauty exhibition review, Imprint Magazine. Spring 2007
Out of the blue, Central Western Daily. October 27th 2007
Stealing Beauty, Imprint Magazine. Spring Edition 2007
Emerging artist steals the scene at the regional gallery, Western Advocate May. 19th 2007
Happening Women in Australia & New Zealand Ken Ball, Everbest Printing China. 2007
View Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. May 2007
Presence of things review, Craft Victoria. 2007
Welcome ghosts from the past Mildura Independent Star. 9th Feburary 2007
Feat of natural beauty, Western Advocate. October 26th 2006
Sense, Veneer and Guise, Vogue Living. June 2006
Focus On Pressing Issues, Western Times. January 12th 2006
Up Front Country Style Magazine. July 2005
New Works, Imprint Magazine Review. Winter Edition 2005
Art Profile, Warp TV. Episode 11 2005
Focus Artist, Prime TV, 1st April. 2005
Silkcut Award, Finalist Catalogue. 2004
Imprint Magazine, Summer Edition. 2003
Silkcut Award, Finalist Catalogue. 2002
Soft Obsessive Violation. Exhibition Catalogue 2000
Canberra Times Review. June 24th 2000
Substance Emerging Artist, Catalogue. 1999
Excita, Canberra School of Art Graduating Student Exhibition Catalogue. 1998
Teaching
2004 – 2024 Facilitator/teacher, Visual Arts, Design & Photography, Creative Industries Western Institute of TAFE, Bathurst & Orange Campus, NSW, Australia
Board Member
2019 -2023 CEMENTA Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos