Nicola Bealing

Nicola Bealing is a painter and printmaker based in Cornwall. She studied at Hertfordshire College of Art and the Byam Shaw School of Art, London. Her work is figurative, anchored strongly in narrative, laced with dark humour and pulsing with surreal unease.

Curriculum vitae Artist’s website

Exhibitions at Matt’s Gallery

Chapter 2: The Borough by undefined at Matt’s Gallery

Nicola Bealing

Chapter 2: The Borough

15 March – 16 April 2023

Nine Elms

Chapter 1: Dead-man's Fingers by undefined at Matt’s Gallery

Nicola Bealing

Chapter 1: Dead-man's Fingers

1 February – 5 March 2023

Nine Elms

Capital Crime by undefined at Matt’s Gallery

Nicola Bealing

Capital Crime

7 – 15 July 2018

Webster Road

In the shop

Boy with Burning Heart, 2018 by undefined

Nicola Bealing

Boy with Burning Heart, 2018

Edition

£600.00

Drowned Boy, 2020/23 by undefined

Nicola Bealing

Drowned Boy, 2020/23

Edition

£180.00

Pour garder vos jambes fines de 20 ans., 2019 by undefined

Nicola Bealing

Pour garder vos jambes fines de 20 ans., 2019

Edition

£240.00

Works

Nicola Bealing, Mary Toft giving birth to rabbits, 2018.
Nicola Bealing, Death of a Naturalist, 2016 - 2018.
Nicola Bealing, Capital Crime, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2018. Installation view by Jonathan Bassett.
Nicola Bealing, Observant Boy, 2017.
Nicola Bealing, Shameless Joan, 2018.
Nicola Bealing, Capital Crime, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2018. Installation view by Jonathan Bassett.
Nicola Bealing, Capital Crime, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2018. Installation view by Jonathan Bassett.
Nicola Bealing, Capital Crime, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2018. Installation view by Jonathan Bassett, courtesy the artist and Matt’s Gallery, London.
Nicola Bealing, An Argument (since forgotten), 2019.
Nicola Bealing, Shipwreck, 2016. Installation view, Mariner- a painted ship upon a painted ocean, The Edge, Andrew Brownsword Gallery, Bath, 2019.
Nicola Bealing, What, 2019.
Nicola Bealing, Specimen, 2018.
Nicola Bealing, Mono, Kestle Barton, Cornwall, 2019.
Nicola Bealing, Mono, Kestle Barton, Cornwall, 2019.
Nicola Bealing, A New Song (To An Old Tune), The Foundling Museum, London, 2019.
Nicola Bealing, The Lovely London Lass Long-lamenting for a Husband, 2018.
Nicola Bealing, The Lusty Lad, 2018.
Nicola Bealing, The Devil, 2018.
Nicola Bealing, 6 of 20 Imagined Portraits of Ann Medlyn, installed in the apple cellar, Kestle Barton, Cornwall, 2016. Installation view, Death and Circuses, Kestle Barotn, Cornwall, 2016.
Nicola Bealing, The Biter Bitten, 2019.
Nicola Bealing, Darn, 2018.
Nicola Bealing, Fish, moths, night, 2017.
Nicola Bealing, Plague - Locusts, 2015.
Nicola Bealing’s studio, 2022.
The Headless Lady : Sideshows, Crimes and Other Entertainments. ink & oil on linen 183x183cm, Death and Circuses, 2016
Dirty Man, Clean Man - oil on linen 121x 91cm 2014
Capital Crimes in Cornwall 1785-1882, Partially Obscured by Honeysuckle, ink and oil on linen 2015 183x183cm (Death and Circuses)
Pale Eyelashes, oil on wooden panel 18x13cm 2019
Death and Circuses, installation view, Kestle Barton, 2016
Plymouth Shoal, oil on dibond panel 400x 250cm - commissioned by Hospital Rooms, installed in Centre Court Psychotherapy Unit, Plymouth 2020
Laugh and Lie Down, ink, oil & acrylic on linen 214x200cm
Bait, oil and spray paint on linen 152x121cm 2018
The Demon Drink - oil and spray paint on linen 91x61cm 2019
The Groom (Where he walks flowers unfold), oil and spray paint on linen 2019 152x121cm
The Horse - oil on linen 2019 118x76cm,Three Acts and Seven Scenes, Salisbury Arts Centre 2020 - Blood Wedding, Federico García Lorca
Thumb sucker, oil on panel 25x20cm,2021
The Headless Lady : Sideshows, Crimes and Other Entertainments, ink & oil on linen 183x183cm, Death and Circuses, 2016
Nicola Bealing, Mary Toft giving birth to rabbits, 2018.

Nicola Bealing, Mary Toft giving birth to rabbits, 2018.

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