'Sea-portrait', 500 x450mm oil, acrylic and pastel on linen and canvas 2025.
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Welcoming Nicola Farquhar
McLeavey Gallery is pleased to welcome Nicola Farquhar for her first solo show at the Gallery.
Nicola is an contemporary painter who lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand.
She has Master of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Art. In 2024 Nicola had a major show of her work Star, Lands at the Dunedin public art gallery. She has been exhibiting her work for 15 years.
Nicolas painting practice is deeply experimental, influenced by storytelling, science fiction and the interplay of colour and light. The rich painterly surfaces often evoking the natural world, chemistry, the cosmos, machinery, animals and other bodies.
Her paintings are are invitations to step into a realm of shifting perspectives and quite wonder. The work has been described as 'food for your eyeballs'. Her work is often informed by non-fiction writing.
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Welcoming Nicola Farquhar
McLeavey Gallery is pleased to welcome Nicola Farquhar for her first solo show at the Gallery.
Nicola is an contemporary painter who lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand.
She has Master of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Art. In 2024 Nicola had a major show of her work Star, Lands at the Dunedin public art gallery. She has been exhibiting her work for 15 years.
Nicolas painting practice is deeply experimental, influenced by storytelling, science fiction and the interplay of colour and light. The rich painterly surfaces often evoking the natural world, chemistry, the cosmos, machinery, animals and other bodies.
Her paintings are are invitations to step into a realm of shifting perspectives and quite wonder. The work has been described as 'food for your eyeballs'. Her work is often informed by non-fiction writing.
