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| Born 28/6/1967 | |
| Education | |
| 2010 – 2012 | MPhil by project, Royal College of Art |
| 1996 – 1997 | MA Ceramics UWIC, Cardiff |
| 1989 – 1992 | BA(Hons) Ceramics, Bristol Polytechnic |
| 1986 – 1989 | BA(Hons) English & History, University of Kent |
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Exhibitions |
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| 2023 | “Liminal and Lenticular – Nicholas Lees and Greg Payce”. Messums Gallery. |
| 2023 | “Nicholas Lees – Abstract Vessels”. Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery. |
| 2023 | “Abstract Ceramics”. Messums Gallery, Wiltshire. |
| 2023 | “Form and Surface”. The Object Space, Atlanta, US. |
| 2023 | ‘Collect’. Somerset House, London. Represented by Cavaliero Finn. |
| 2023 | “Artwork Orange”. Galleri Weinberger Scahndorff, Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| 2023 | “Liberté et Précision”. Galerie du Don, France. |
| 2023 | “Elemental Lines”. Cavaliero Finn at Ballroom Arts Aldeburgh. |
| 2023 | Summer Exhibition. Moncrieff Bray Gallery, Sussex. |
| 2022 | “Making; Drawing”. Crafts Study Centre. UCA Farnham. |
| 2022 | “Lees, Persson, Schaal”. Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen. |
| 2022 | ‘Collect’. Somerset House, London. Represented by Cavaliero Finn. |
| 2022 | ‘PAD London’. Represented by Portuondo Gallery. |
| 2022 | ‘Masterpiece’, London. Represented by Portuondo Gallery. |
| 2022 | Seattle Art Fair, US. Represented by Cube Gallery. |
| 2022 | Art Market Hamptons, US. Represented by Cube Gallery. |
| 2022 | PAD Paris. Represented by Portuondo Gallery. |
| 2022 | ‘Artefact’. Design Centre Chelsea Harbour. Represented by Cavaliero Finn. |
| 2021 | Christmas Exhibition. Cube Gallery. London. |
| 2021 | Fifth Anniversary Exhibition. Alveston Fine Arts, London. |
| 2021 | ‘Crafting a Difference’. Argentine Ambassador’s Residence, with Cavaliero Finn. |
| 2021 | ‘Form Through Fire’. Porthminster Gallery, St. Ives. |
| 2021 | Summer Exhibition. Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Sussex. |
| 2021 | ‘Artefact’. Design Centre Chelsea Harbour. Represented by Cavaliero Finn. |
| 2021 | ‘The Twain Shall Meet’. Alveston Fine Arts, London. |
| 2021 | Collect Art Fair. Represented by Cavaliero Finn. |
| 2020 | Focus/20. London Design Festival with Cavaliero Finn. |
| 2020 | Summer Exhibition. Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Sussex. |
| 2020 | Collect Art Fair, Somerset House, London. Represented by Cavaliero Finn. |
| 2020 | London Art Fair. Represented by Rabley Contemporary. |
| 2019 | ‘Alter’. Cavaliero Finn at Fitzrovia Chapel, London. |
| 2019 | ‘Le Decor Comme Element Structurel’. Galerie du Don, France. |
| 2019 | ‘Second Half Foundation Exhibition, London. |
| 2019 | Westerwald Prize Competition Exhibition, Hohr-Grenzhausen, Germany. |
| 2019 | London Art Fair. Represented by Rabley Contemporary. |
| 2019 | European Prize for Applied Arts. DCCOI, Kilkenny, Ireland. |
| 2019 | Sculpture Open. Royal West of England Academy. Bristol. |
| 2018 | European Prize for Applied Arts. Mons, Belgium. |
| 2018 | ‘Homo Faber’. Michelangelo Foundation at Fondazio Giorgio Cini, Venice. |
| 2018 | ‘Rhapsody in Blue’. Hexagon Classic Design, London. |
| 2018 | ‘Reflections on Translucence’. Studio Fusion Gallery, London. |
| 2018 | ‘Penumbra’. Solo Exhibition, Rabley Gallery, Wiltshire. |
| 2018 | Summer Exhibition. Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Sussex. |
| 2018 | ‘To Ideal Land of Ceramics’. Tsinghua Arts Museum, Beijing, China. |
| 2018 | London Art Fair. Represented by Rabley Gallery. |
| 2017 | Tresor Contemporary Craft, Basel, Switzerland. Represented by Taste Contemporary. |
| 2017 | ICAA Blanc de Chine Competition. Musee des Confluences, Lyon, France. |
| 2017 | ‘Senses’. Walford Mill Gallery, Dorset. |
| 2017 | ‘Whiter Shade of Pale’. Hexagon Classic Design, London. |
| 2017 | ‘Form’. Snug Gallery, Yorkshire. |
| 2017 | London Art Fair, represented by Rabley Contemporary. |
| 2017 | ‘VASE; Function Reviewed’. Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. |
| 2017 | Artgeneve. Represented by Taste Contemporary Craft. |
| 2017 | Christie’s London. With Royal College of Art Ceramics and Glass department. |
| 2016 | Naspa Talent Award, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Germany. |
| 2016 | “Ornament 2016”. Old Granada Studios, Manchester. |
| 2016 | VASE; Function Reviewed. National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland. |
| 2016 | XXIV International Biennale of Vallauris, France. |
| 2016 | “A la Recherche du Sublime”. Galerie du Don, France. |
| 2016 | artmonte-carlo. Represented by Taste Contemporary Craft. |
| 2015 | St.Art Fair, Strasbourg, France. With Galerie du Don. |
| 2015 | ‘Form & Frei’. Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig Holstein, Germany. |
| 2015 | ‘Many a Slip’. Marsden Woo Gallery, London. |
| 2015 | Premio Faenza, International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy. |
| 2015 | Ceramics of Europe selected artists. European Parliament, Strasbourg, France. |
| 2015 | ‘Nicholas Lees and Ashraf Hanna’, Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels, Belgium. |
| 2014 | Ceramics of Europe. Westerwald Keramikmuseum, Germany. |
| 2014 | PAD London with Adrian Sassoon. |
| 2014 | ‘Light Reflections’. Mint, London. |
| 2014 | Mixed Exhibition. Marsden Woo, London. |
| 2014 | Encounter Fine Art. Broadway House, Fulham. |
| 2013 | Selfridges Concept Store. London. |
| 2013 | British Ceramics Biennial Award Exhibition. Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. |
| 2013 | The Open West. Newark Park and Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery. |
| 2013 | Mixed Exhibition. Marsden Woo, London. |
| 2012 | Drawing Biennial. One Church Street Gallery, Bucks. |
| 2012 | Show 2012. RCA Graduate exhibition |
| 2012 | James Tower and Contemporary Ceramics Art, Gimpel Fils, London. |
| 2012 | Ceramic Art London, RCA student show, RCA, London. |
| 2010 | National Sculpture Award. Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool. |
| 2009 | 5th World Ceramics Biennale. Icheon. South Korea. |
| 2009 | European Ceramics – 12th Westerwald Prize. Hohr-Grenzhausen, Germany. |
| 2008 | 10 Years On. Work from Fireworks Studio. Llantarnam Grange and touring. |
| 2007 | 4th World Ceramics Biennale. Icheon, South Korea. |
| 2004 | 1st European Ceramics Competition Exhibition. Amaroussion, Greece. |
| 2004 | Westerwald Ceramic Art Competition. Germany. |
| 2003 | 53rd International Ceramic Art Competition, Faenza, Italy. |
| 2002 | Bishop Philpotts Gallery, Truro. ‘Ceramica’ festival. |
| 2002 | Peter’s Barn Gallery, Sussex. Solo exhibition. |
| 2002/3 | Ceramic Contemporaries 4. Royal College of Art. London. (Touring). |
| 2001 | Positive and Negative. Pearoom Crafts Centre, Lincolnshire. |
| 2001 | Sculpture for St. Swithun’s Day. Red House Museum, Christchurch, Dorset. |
| 2000 | Trialog Gallery. Hohr – Grenzhausen, Germany. Exhibition accompanying symposium. |
| 1999 | The Candover Gallery, Alresford, Hants. |
| 1999 | The Red Gallery, Portsmouth, Hants. Solo exhibition. |
| 1999 | Peter’s Barn Gallery, Sussex. |
| 1999 | Art in Clay, Hatfield House, Herts. |
| 1999 | Not just Pots – New Directions in Contemporary Ceramics. Hampshire County Council Museums Service. Touring Exhibition. |
| 1998 | Ceramics From Wales. Ceramics Gallery. Sydney, Australia. |
| 1998 | Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award. Auckland, New Zealand. |
| 1997 | NewArt. Wrexham Art Centre. |
| Awards | |
| 2015 | Cersaie Prize, International Ceramic Art competition, Faenza, Italy. |
| 2012 | Desmond Preston award for excellence in drawing. RCA, London. |
| 2010 | National Sculpture Award. Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool. |
| 2004 | Award of Merit. 1st European Ceramics Competition. Greece. |
| 2003 | Third prize. 53rd International Ceramic Art Competition. Faenza, Italy. |
| Public Collections/ Commissions | |
| 2024 | Victoria and Albert Museum. |
| 2023 | Chippenham Museum, Wiltshire. |
| 2019 | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. |
| 2016 | Keramikmuseum Westerwald. |
| 2015 | Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy. |
| 2004 | Royal Caribbean International. |
| 2003 | Keramikmuseum Westerwald. |
| 1999 | York City Art Gallery. |
| 1998 | Auckland Museum. |
| Teaching | |
| 2013 onwards | Visiting Lecturer, UCA, Farnham |
| 2012 onwards | Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art. |
| 2010 – 2019 | Visiting Lecturer, Bath Spa University. |
| 2000 – 2010 | Senior Lecturer in Ceramics at Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University. |