Nicholas Middleton

Education

Royal College of Art (2016-present) MPhil Fine Art Candidate

Winchester School of Art (1994-97) BA (Hons) Fine Art

London Guildhall University (1993-94) Foundation Course

Awards

John Moores 2010 Prizewinner & Visitors’ Choice Prizewinner
Kew Studio Prize, Originals 2010
Vistors’ Choice Prizewinner, John Moores 24, 2006
Shortlisted for the BOC Emerging Artist Award 2002

Selected Exhibitions

2019
Solo Exhibition at Beaux Arts Bath
London Art Fair Islington, Beaux Arts Bath

2018
‘Artist of Fame and Promise’ Summer Show at Beaux Arts Bath
London Art Fair Islington, Beaux Arts Bath
John Moores Painting Prize UK & China Prize Winners Show, Corke Gallery, Liverpool

2017
‘New Paintings’ Solo show- Beaux Arts Bath
‘Artist of Fame and Promise’ Summer Show at Beaux Arts Bath
London Art Fair Islington, Beaux Arts Bath
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2016
‘Artist of Fame and Promise’ Summer Show at Beaux Arts Bath
London Art Fair Islington, Beaux Arts Bath
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
AAF Battersea, London – Beaux Arts Bath

2015
SCIENCE!, Pictorem Gallery, London
Immediacy of Paint, Waterfront Gallery, UCS, Ipswich
London Painting Survey, Barbican Arts Project Space, London
Artists of Fame and Promise, Beaux Arts Bath
Documentary Realism: Painting In The Digital Age, The Crypt at St Marylebone, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London

2014
John Moores Painting Prize 2014, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Contemporary British Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield
@PaintBritain, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Ipswich
The Discerning Eye 2014, Mall Galleries, London
East Contemporary Art Collection: Places and Landscapes, Waterfront Gallery, UCS Suffolk, Ipswich
Towards A New Socio-Painting, Transition Gallery, London
Signal Over Noise/Don’t Split The Focus, Pictorem Gallery, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London

2013
Provisional Cities, (solo exhibtion) The Crypt at St Marylebone, London
Cities All Dimensions, Tokarska Gallery, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London

2012
Francis Bacon To Paula Rego, Abbott Hall, Kendall
New East Anglian Painting, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Ipswich
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London

2011
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Mostyn Open 2011, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno

2010
John Moores 2010, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Diverse Realisms, Minories Art Gallery, Colchester
Black & White Paintings (solo exhibition), Arch Gallery, London
BHVU Winter Open, BHVU Gallery London
Originals ’10, Mall Galleries, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art

2009
“You Are Here”, Liquid Gallery, London
Originals ’09, Mall Galleries, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2008
Space Invaders, Liquid Gallery, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2007
Oil & Silver, Hoopers Gallery, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2006
John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Mystery Portrait Postcards, National Portrait Gallery, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London

2005
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery London
Hidden Things and Non-Things, Hackney Empire, London
Slick, A Gallery, London
Hackney Summer Salon, Hackney Museum, London
Hard Bodies, The Arndean Gallery, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2004
John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Michael Naimski Gallery, London
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery London
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Small Print Show, CODE Gallery, Bristol
Superlative, A Gallery, London
Failsafe, APT Gallery, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London

2003
Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Lens Based Open, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London

2002
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2001
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2000
Displacements, Void Gallery, London
Defining The Times, Milton Keynes Gallery
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

1990s
New Work by 100 Artists, The Atrium Gallery, London -1999
Quantum Contemporary Art Christmas Show, The Gallery 28 Cork Street, London -1998
New Work by 100 Artists, The Atrium Gallery, London -1998
2nd Bienniale National Student Print Open, Storey Gallery, Lancaster -1998
Fine Young Artists, The Air Gallery, London -1997
Bandits-Mages, Bourges Film Festival, France -1997
Stolen Goods, The Tannery, London -1997
Elevations, The Agency, London -1997
Open To Print 4, National Student Printmaking Exhibition, -1996
Uncooked, Horse Hospital, London -1994