Curriculum Vitae - condensed 2019-2013
Education
2019, Mabel Residency, Norman Bird Sanctuary, Rhode Island, USA
2017, Institut français résidence cité internationale des arts, Paris
2014, Vice-Chancellor's College Visiting Artist Fellowship, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
2006-2010, Doctor of Philosophy, School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra,
2000-2003, Bachelor of Visual Art, Honours, National Institute of the Arts, ANU
Solo Exhibitions since 2013
2022, Walking the Murray- in the footsteps of William Blandoswki, Beaver Galleries, Deakin, ACT
2021, Space for Hope and Wonder, The Art Vault, Mildura
2020, Voyagers' Tales- Baudin, Beaver Galleries, ACT
2019, French Collection, Canberra Museum and Gallery
2018, The Naturalist's Footsteps, Allport Museum and Gallery, Hobart
2017, Voyagers' Tales: Labillardière, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
2016, Close Encounters, Eildon Gallery, Alliance Française, Melbourne
2015, Close Encounters, Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT
2015, Voyagers' Tales - Ferdinand Bauer, Beaver Galleries, ACT
2014, Embodied Encounters, Coombs Building, ANU
2013, Frames of Reference, M16 Artspace, Canberra
2013, 2012, Birds from a New World, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, Western Plains Cultural
Selected Group Exhibitions 2018-2013
2021, Small works Exhibition, Beaver Galleries
2021, Harbinger, Mildura Arts Centre, VIC, curated by Nicola Dickson
2019: The R&M McGivern Prize, Melbourne
2019; The Hadley's Art Prize, Hobart
2019, Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Melbourne
2018, So Fine, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2018, The Fellows, ANU School of Art and Design Gallery, Canberra
2017, Avian, Canberra Museum and Gallery
2017, Naturally Yours, ANU School of Art and Design Gallery, Canberra
2017, How does your Garden Grow? Goulburn Regional Gallery
2016, Bush Capital, Canberra Museum and Gallery
2016, Art Not Apart New Acton Peninsula
2015, Art and Environment Exhibition in a Suitcase, travelling exhibition developed by ANU Regional Partnership Program
2015, VCCAFS 2014, Foyer Gallery, School of Art, ANU
2014, US Embassy, Art in Embassies Exhibition, Canberra
2014, Finalist, Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South Australian Museum, National Archives of Australia
2013, Finalist, Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South Australian Museum, National Archives of Australia
2013, Art not Apart, New Acton Peninsula
2013, Finalist, Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Collections
ACT Legislative Assembly, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra Hospital, Parliament House, Australian National University
Grants
2021, ArtsACT Project funding to support a group exhibition at Mildura Arts Centre
2019, ArtsACT Arts Activity funding for projects under 5K
2016, ArtsACT Project funding for fieldwork in Tasmania
Awards
2022; Rosalie Gascoigne Memorial Award (CAPO)
2019; Mabel Residency, Norman bird Sanctuary, Rhode Island, USA
2017; Laureate Institut Française, residency program, France
2014; Highly Commended, Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
2013; Highly Commended, Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
2012; Highly Commended, Goulburn Art Award
Citations
2018, So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2014, The Artist's Library: a field guide, Laura C. Damon-Moore and Erin P. Batykefer, (eds), Coffee House Press, USA
Reviews
2020, Sally Pryor, Canberra artist Nicola Dickson is fascinated by early French encounters with the Australian environment, Canberra Times, 3 August 2020 https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6857471/witnessing-wonder-at-its-most-intense/
2020, Sasha Grishin, Voyagers' Tales Baudin at Beaver Galleries, Wistful works of detailed delicacy, Canberra Times, 1 August 2020,
2015, Kerry Anne Cousins, Close Encounters at Canberra Museum and Gallery, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/close-encounters-by-nicola-dickson-at-canberra-museum-and-gallery-20151118-gl1z2r.html
Publications
2018, 'Translation and Transformation-Piron's Drawings' in Collecting in the South Sea: The voyage of Bruni d'Entrecasteaux 1791-1794, editors Bronwen Douglas, Fanny Wonu Veys and Billie Lythberg, Sidestone Press, Leiden
2019, Representing Encounters- The drawings of Jean Piron, Journal of History and Anthropology, published May 2019.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02757206.2019.1612386
Presentations
5/12/2019, Present Pasts, AAANZ annual conference, Auckland NZ
4/12/2019, Economies of Desire, AAANZ annual conference, Auckland NZ
19/11/2019. Artist's talk, Newport Museum, USA
6/2/2015, Embodied Encounters - the drawings of Jean Piron: Material Encounters conference, National Library of Australia
22/10/2013, Use of historical imagery in my studio Practice, Art History students, ANU
21/03/2013, Studio Practice, Portrayal and Identity Symposium, ANU
12/07/2012, In search of self, Art Association of Australian and New Zealand Annual conference, Sydney University
15/03/2011, Ornamentation and the Colonial Imagination, Art History Undergraduates, ANU
19/09/2009, Ornamentation and Western Painting, Art Worlds Symposium, Art History Department, ANU
5/06/2009, The Art of Creative Research, Research School of Humanities, ANU
Post graduate Poster Presentation at the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of Art Historians (CIHA), Melbourne, 2008