About

​​​​​​​​​​​​

 

​

​

Nicki Rolls is a contemporary artist based at Redlees Studios in Isleworth. Her drawings and paintings of wild flowers and weeds explore the fragility of the natural world. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. Her solo exhibitions include Carbon and Cellulose, RupturEXIBIT, Hampton Wick, 2023,  Nothing is Small in Nature, One Paved Court, Richmond, 2022 and On and On, Concrete Cafe, Hayward Gallery, London, 2012. She was shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2023 and gained first prize (Student Award) at Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2011. She runs workshops with community groups has run life drawing workshops for many years. 

​

​​

​​​​​​​​​​​​​

​​

​

​​

​

​

​

​​

​

 

Awards

Shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, 2023

First Prize, Diana Armfield Drawing from Observation Award, London, 2023

First Prize Jerwood Drawing Prize, Student Award, 2011

​

Up-coming exhibitions

(see News)

 

Solo Exhibitions

RuptureXIBIT, London, 27 May - 1 June, Carbon and Cellulose, 2023

One Paved Court, London, Oct 19 - Nov 6, Nothing is Small in Nature, 2022

Hayward Gallery's Concrete Cafe, London, 27 March - 3 June, On and On, 2012

  

Selected Group Exhibitions 

​​​​

Turner's House garden, Twickenham, London, Friends of Our Earth, 2024

Pensychnant Conservation Centre, Nature, Environment and Conservation, Conwy, Wales 2024

Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 

Redlees Gallery, London, Everything glowed with a gleam; Yet we were looking away!, 2023

Mall Galleries, London, Pastel Society of Annual Exhibition, 2023

Mall Galleries, London, Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, 2022

​Air Gallery, Altrincham, Manchester, Merry-Go-Round Broke Down, 2018

​Filter4, Basel, Switzerland, Searching the Line, 2017

Palazzo Flangini, Venice, Italy, Contemporary Venice 2016/7

A.P.T Gallery, London, 17 March - 4 April, Colliderscape, 2016

​Bargehouse, London, 5-8 Nov, We all Draw @ UAL, 2015

Tate Britain, 7 February, Late at Tate Britain 1840s GIF Party, 2014

Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green Road, 23 May - 3 June, Second Nature, 2014

Jerwood Space, London, 13 September, Jerwood Drawing Prize, 2011

Arthouse, Deptford, 24 September, Deptford X, 2010

St Pancras Church Crypt, London, Life cycles, 2007

​

Education

​​

University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College, BA Fine Art, 2005

University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College, MA Fine Art, 2011

 

 

 

 

​

​

​

​​

​

​

 

​​​​​CONTACT

​​​​If you have any enquiries, please contact njrolls@hotmail.com