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Nicola Atkinson Artist & Curator Beautiful Materials

Nicola Atkinson Artist & Curator Beautiful Materials Nicola Atkinson Artist & Curator Beautiful Materials Nicola Atkinson Artist & Curator Beautiful Materials Nicola Atkinson Artist & Curator Beautiful Materials
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THE STUDIO

When I came up with the idea of Beautiful Materials in 2018 , it seemed to cover lots of things, and I felt that it could be paint, wood, light, paper, fabric, stone, sound, words, events and also people because they all have a materiality... and could be beautiful.


My artwork is characterised by a restless exploration of materials and making that is evident throughout my practice.













Nicola Atkinson working on her current series in her studio in east Glasgow May 2026


Thank you to outerspaces.scotland 


Photographer Lorna Swinney


STUFF etc 18 April - 3 May 2026

Three person show in the Beautiful Materials Gallery

Nicola Atkinson STUFF,  in the Main Gallery

Celine Mcilmunn, Making Ends Meet, in the A Model Gallery.

Louise Shambrook Home,in the Above the Sofa space. 


Nicola Atkinson - Photographer© Harrison Reid

PRESS RELEASE

We are all Vessels - Moray Place

We are all vessels, our bodies, our homes, and in our family. 

When I was invited by my friends Vivian and Kevin to think about their ‘Greek’ Thompson home on Moray Place, it seemed like the perfect place to set seven bold and colourful Vessels in their windows. The vessels have been the main source of the customary life and mind of the ancient Greeks.


7 March 2026 


Photographer© Nicola R Atkinson

Beautiful Materials Gallery

Beautiful Materials Gallery at the Avenue Shopping centre G77 6AA -  15 Nov 2025 - 3 May 2026


Photographer© Nicola R Atkinson

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15 Nov - 6 Dec 2025

Vessels : A Conservation about Materials

This was the first exhibition in the Beautiful Materials Gallery, I thought it would be perfect to share the process behind my recent solo show in Linlithgow Burgh Halls. The centrality of the vessel in this exhibition reflects my interest in the discipline and history of ceramics. 


Photographer© Spencer Dent

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A solo exhibition in Linlithgow Nicola Atkinson

 ‘Nicola I thought the show was beautiful, and very much of you. It occurred to me this morning that many artists would shy away from a space with so many windows, but your pieces are redolent of curtains, and I don’t mean that in a derogatory way! They do an odd thing of being like window coverings in that space, but not on the windows! It is a wonderful and very unique space and the art is in tune, so the whole piece sings with the space. I think it’s all the pieces together, arranged and talking together in that space, with the bus stop outside its beautiful’ 


Thomas Hamilton


23 May to 21 September 2025


Photographer© Jim Payne

Nicola Atkinson in conversation about her solo exhibition of new works in Linlithgow with Lynsey Moyes, who is a radio producer who has created audio arts content for BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 4 and the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art.

Vessel Storm Shelter

Balivanich, Isle of Benbecula

Created by Nicola Atkinson in September 2025, with 1200 individual pieces of transparent vinyl hand cut and applied.

Thank you for supporting and making this possible, Anne Corrance Monk, Sorcha Monk, Sheena Stewart, Uist Council of Voluntary Organisations and the owner of the site Jonny Murray, Bike Hebrides.


Photographer© Nicola R Atkinson

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