Nicky Foreman b. 1970
Works
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Nicky ForemanMagnolia, 2024Oil & mixed media on board80 x 80 cm -
Nicky ForemanOur Lady, 2019Oil & gold leaf on board20 x 40 cm (opened)
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Nicky ForemanBack Block II, 2022Acrylic on canvas board12.5 x 35.5 cm
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Nicky ForemanIn, Over and Through, 2023Mixed media on canvas/board80 x 126 cm
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Nicky ForemanAssiduous, 2023Oil & mixed media on board30 x 100 cm
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Nicky ForemanAutumn Bouquet, 2020Oil on board22 x 44 cm
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Nicky ForemanTarata I, 2023Acrylic on canvas board41 x 153 cm
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Nicky ForemanBack Block III, 2022Acrylic on canvas board12.5 x 17.5 cm
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Nicky ForemanTaranaki Glimpse, 2024Oil & mixed media on board30 x 146 cm
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Nicky ForemanRhythm, 2021Oils & mixed media on board35.5 x 152 cm
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Nicky ForemanTarata II, 2022Acrylic on canvas board35.5 x 45.5 cm
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Nicky ForemanQuatrefoil - New Growth I, 2019Mixed media on board17 x 17 cm
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Nicky ForemanQuatrefoil - New Growth II, 2019Mixed media on board17 x 17 cm
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Nicky ForemanArdentOils & mixed media on board40 x 100 cm
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Nicky ForemanReorientateOils & mixed media on board18 x 140 cm
Biography
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Back Block II, 2022
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Tarata I, 2023
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Back Block III, 2022
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Rhythm, 2021
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Quatrefoil - New Growth I, 2019
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Quatrefoil - New Growth II, 2019
Nicky Foreman was born in Waitara in 1970 and graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland in 1992.
Foreman has exhibited regularly in Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington and Christchurch. She completed a three-month residency and exhibition in Vallauris, France in 2005 and has also exhibited in St Tropez, France.
Foreman’s work is often concerned with taking everyday mundane objects and resetting them, so they can be viewed as precious and beautiful. Her work can be viewed in two ways, as small icon-like pieces and as a work in its entirety. The difficulty in this is to create an innate sense of balance, wherein the viewer's eye is not pulled in any one direction, but rather "floats" across the surface picking up different aspects.
Foreman uses oil paint with an assemblage of other materials. She manipulates her materials and invents for herself new techniques that evolve through her everyday practice, giving a sense of alchemy to her artwork. Using gold, silver and copper leaf, wax, inks, and shellacs, she engenders tactile historical surfaces.
Gabrielle Amodeo states of Foreman’s work;
‘The most overwhelming feature of Foreman's recent work is the residence it takes up between Taranaki and the south of France, the collision of two landscapes. Foreman has a deep connection to both landscapes, but it is the type of romantic connection born out of distance and separation. The bond she has comes from brief stints of travel, and the memories she carries back home. It is the quixotic connection of travel: time enough to fall in love or re-kindle an old passion, but not a marriage as such, not a full and immersive relationship. The Taranaki landscape becomes an old and grizzled lover waiting at home, whereas the French landscape sweeps her off her feet with its bright hues and soft light’.
Exhibitions
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Nicky Foreman
Shadow Passes - Light Remains 3 - 22 August 2021Nicky Foreman was born in Waitara, Taranaki in 1970. She attended Elam School of Fine Arts Auckland University 1988 – 1991 and graduated BFA 1992. First exhibiting in Auckland and New Plymouth in 1992, Foreman has exhibited regularly in Auckland, New Plymouth and Christchurch ever since. From the onset, she has worked in a compartmentalized format. Foreman’s work can be viewed twofold – in small icon-like pieces and as the whole. Her work is concerned with taking everyday objects and resetting them, so they might be viewed in a difference context – as precious and beautiful. Within this method of working Foreman plays off order against chaos, and abstract against figurative. Foreman uses oil paint with an assemblage of other materials. She manipulates her materials and invents for herself new techniques that evolve through her everyday practice, giving a sense of alchemy to her artwork. Using gold, silver and copper leaf, wax, inks and shellacs, she engenders tactile historical surfaces.Read more -
Nicky Foreman
Incrementum 25 June - 7 July 2019'From a personal point of view, I have always found it easier to center myself in an ornate space and although there is a current push towards the pared back,...Read more
