Beautiful Materials

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 almost everything - paint, wood, light, paper, fabric, stone, music , 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

Artist, Director & Curator, Beautiful Materials

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Nicola Atkinson in her studio in Glasgow with her two meter velvet work Vessels and the small painting on mdf and with masonry paint, which is designed to protect exterior masonry from atmospheric attack and moisture ingress.

Thank you to outerspaces.scotland

Photographer Harrison Reid

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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

Nicola Atkinson Artist & Curator Beautiful Materials

THE STUDIO

STUFF etc 18 April - 3 May 2026

We are all Vessels - Moray Place