Nick Rands

Profile/CV

Visual artist based in London and Porto Alegre, Brazil, making systems-based work using painting, photographic work, installation, artist's books.

Born in England in 1955.

Studied Fine Art at Reading University, and Art Education at Bristol University.

Taught art in England and Botswana and worked in Gallery Education in England.

Southern Arts - Brazil Exchange artist in 1992 and moved to Brazil in 1998.

Moved back to London temporarily in 2007 and now divides time between London and Porto Alegre.

One-person exhibitions include:

ChromaLife Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2009) and The Brickhouse, London (2008); Obras Fotográficas, Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2007); …and still counting…, Bermondsey Street Studio, London, England, and Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2005); Painting by Numbers, Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2004); Where the sea meets the sky, Fotogaleria, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2003); Mudworks, Espaço Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Fundação Cultural de Criciúma, Criciúma, SC, Brazil; Earthly Spheres, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester, England, and touring; Pinturas, Galeria Sotero Cosme, Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil and Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, PR, Brazil (2001); EyeLevels, Galeria Iberê Camargo, Usina do Gasômetro, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Esferas Terrestres, Torreão, Porto Alegre, Brazil (1999); Grizedale Forest Painting Residency, Gallery in The Forest, Grizedale, Cumbria, England, (1996); Line by Line, the Southern Arts Touring Exhibition Service, England (1994-6).


Group exhibitions include:

Heterodoxia, MASC Florianópolis, SC, Brazil (2004); 1+1+1, Museu da Gravura, Bagé, RS, Brazil and Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil (2003); III Salão National de Arte de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil; 24º Salão de Arte de Riberão Preto, Riberão Preto, SP, Brazil (2003); III Salão de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil; II Salão Nacional de Arte de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil; II Salão de Arte UNI-BH, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil (2002); II Salão de Porto Alegre, Usina do Gasômetro, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2000); Chart, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England; Coletiva, Obra Aberta, Galeria Chaves, Porto Alegre, Brazil (1999); The Space of the Page, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England; Repetition, The Southern Arts Touring Exhibition Service, England, Italy and Belgium (1996-7).

Website www.nickrands.com