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IDEA: It seems that there are not enough formal places for artists to exhibit artworks in Scotland. I wonder if one of the solutions is to have a MODEL GALLERY. Where you can imagine you are a giant within the walls.

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I wanted to thank you reading this, the artists and everyone at the Outer Spaces for kindness and support and Avenue Shopping Centre for making me feel welcome for the last 6 months. I have had the best time in Newton M...

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10 Dec 2011 - 12 Jan 2012 Nicola Atkinson Stevie Jackson Lee Ivett urban:sanctuary 2026 E. 1st, Boyle Heights, CA 90033

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STUFF etc challenges viewers to ask themselves: how much do we really need?

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

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I met David Harding in 1993 when I had just arrived from Los Angeles and made me so very welcome and invited me for dinner at his house with fellow artists friends. He showed me nothing but support and friendship over th

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Balivanich, Isle of Benbecula\n

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Published by Beautiful Materials Publishing, a publishing company founded by Nicola Atkinson, it is a pocket-sized book, with beautiful reproductions of the artwork featured in the exhibition Beautiful Materials at Linli...

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The Beautiful Materials Vessels exhibition is bringing everything together that I’ve ever done. It’s a lot of moving parts but they’re all coming together. Visitors coming into the space will be able to read about the di...

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2025: IN COLOUR - Fabric of Johnstone, Johnstone Scotland.

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Hidden depths: the process behind creating public art designed to be buried. Nicola Atkinson in discussion with Katy Mcnair - 2014

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Recent documented artwork floating above below, created in Sept 2024 on the Cathedral Bridge, Glasgow city centre.\n

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take your art off the walls.

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Thank you to OuterSpaces

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The collection is now available on my shop

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WAIT (FOR THE NEWS) #longread NUMBER FOUR

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Beautiful Materials longest latest artwork 100 metre in Glasgow city centre was installed 1st September 2024. (the length of Cathedral Bridge in Glasgow ). With the help of fellow artist Pablo Llopis (feature here ) who ...

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For me as an artist, it's really important to have several ideas in different stages of development. It was really great to spend some time with Alan in his workshop ( podbox. We had talked about doing this project and a...

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What are meeting rooms in the workplace and what are the purposes now? In our world of meetings that extend from the workplace, where virtual are common and are the windows into the lives of homes and faraway lands. Unde...

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As an artist you can't help but make stuff and this can be quite a dilemma in the world where lots of stuff exists. You quickly realize it better be useful and better be good because you might be wasting materials and f...

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“It’s just your Imagination” in action in the #Glasgow LDA Design #studio. LDA Design Studios Glasgow the artworks “It’s just your Imagination” and “Drip” exhibit hopefully will enhance the practice and inspire the peop...

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OPEN CALL CENTRE

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Details of the everyday life in my studio in 2024

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","url":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/nicola-atkinson-event-at-lda-design-23rd-may-2024","title":"Nicola Atkinson Event at LDA design 23rd May 2024","date_modified":"2024-05-31T06:59:53Z"},{"id":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/lda-design-presents-nicola-atkinson-artwork","html_content":"

Wonderful to make the announcement an opportunity to see for the first time “It’s just your Imagination” & “Drip” artworks in a beautiful formal setting of the Glasgow studio of LDA Design. It is going to be a wonderful ...

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Waiting for the news or just waiting. This series of paintings ( 600mm x 600mm canvas acrylic paint) were created during challenging times. I hope that people will feel a sense of release and understanding. No words any ...

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'Elegant caftans, part of a LeonLeon collaboration with multidisciplinary artist and designer Nicola Atkinson, were a major highlight. The pieces featured prints from her Flower Slice series of paintings, which incorpora...

","url":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/fashion-week-el-paseo","title":"Fashion Week El Paseo","summary":"'Elegant caftans, part of a LeonLeon collaboration with multidisciplinary artist and designer Nicola Atkinson, were a major highlight. The pieces featured prints from her Flower Slice series of paintings, which incorpora...","date_modified":"2024-03-26T19:50:09Z"},{"id":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/bright-on-a-dull-day-fantastic-on-a-sunny-day---bus-stops","html_content":"

Winchburgh Bus Stops - Bright on a dull day & fantastic on a sunny day

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For the last few months I have been working in Winchburgh on the Main street and the creative identity. It was great fun to get my inks out and do some drawings. 

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Beautiful Materials velvet wall hangings set the perfect stage for the expressive energy and rich bold colours.These shimmering hanging artworks are tactile and bold. They challenge viewers to slowly look, touching caref...

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I thought it would be a good idea to have two private views at M&S studio in Glasgow. Entrance via Renfrew Street. 14 Thursday & 16 Saturday December 2023 12 noon - 3pm

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Capturing the wind on a beautiful materials scarf in Glasgow.\n

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How to become an artist! Nicola Atkinson Guest lecture at Creative Futures at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen on 12 October 4 - 5pm.

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What a wonderful three day event at the M&S artists Studio. Thank you to the 700 plus the kind and thoughtful public who visited. It was a joy to show besides and work with 26 plus artists who I share this super big spac...

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Beautiful Material shop is now open and ready for orders.\n

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'It's just your imagination' is part of the group show 'Please Pay For Your Shopping Before Entering The Toilet'

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The vacant Marks and Spencer department store is currently occupied by over 80 artists using the shop floor areas and offices as studio space.

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I have been working since late June 2023 in the vacant Marks & Spencer on Sauchiehall Street. It has been great to take risks and paint big. Work in progress 6.5 meter long painting - with several more layers of thought ...

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Memory Trees can offer up intimate moments for reflection and happy thoughts in public spaces. Artist Nicola Atkinson of Beautiful Materials has designed a Memory Tree in Aberdeen’s restored and recently reopened Union T...

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It is wonderful to return to Aberdeen as I am not a stranger to the park; my public artwork Mosaic Gardens, 2016 was a celebrated heritage of Aberdeen Union Terrace Gardens. Two hundred flags of bold coloured images that...

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There’s been a lot of talk about 20-minute neighbourhoods in the UK over the last couple of years. Although not a new concept within planning, there’s certainly a renewed political and societal focus on their development...

","url":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/20-minutes-to-better-health-and-more-equitable-communities","title":"20 minutes to better health and more equitable communities.","summary":"There’s been a lot of talk about 20-minute neighbourhoods in the UK over the last couple of years. Although not a new concept within planning, there’s certainly a renewed political and societal focus on their development...","date_modified":"2022-11-18T08:41:16Z"},{"id":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/slice-of-colours-dennistoun-g31","html_content":"

Marking the Glaswegian artist’s most ambitious public project to date, Nicola Atkinson’s Slice of Colours, takes place on nine gable ends in her local neighbourhood. Interrupting the neutral grouping of flats, units and ...

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You can find now find the Portable Retrospective book at all University and College's libraries in Scotland.

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'Scandalisation of public art which can disempower artists and undermine the idea that art should be for everybody.' Nicola Atkinson

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The word “Wee” is our starting point to explore what it means to work in a small way and what it means to work as part of a collective, as “we”.

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My notes on the conversation with Anna McRobbie a senior consultant at https://momentum-transport.com about #20minuteneighborhood for her very interesting article. It can be now be read in full on here https://beautifulm...

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Anna McRobbie a senior consultant at Momentum Transport Consultancy in conversation with Nicola Atkinson Artist & Director of Beautiful Materials Design Studio to develop ideas of ‘where you want to be’, creating an imag...

","url":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/20-min-to-better-health-net-zero-imaginative-place-to-live","title":"20-min to better health, net-zero & imaginative place to live.","summary":"Anna McRobbie a senior consultant at Momentum Transport Consultancy in conversation with Nicola Atkinson Artist & Director of Beautiful Materials Design Studio to develop ideas of ‘where you want to be’, creating an imag...","date_modified":"2021-10-28T10:13:32Z"},{"id":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/artist-makes-an-exhibition-of-homes-with-unique-take-on-paintings","html_content":"

by Nan Spowart Journalist

","url":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/artist-makes-an-exhibition-of-homes-with-unique-take-on-paintings","title":"Artist makes an exhibition of homes with unique take on paintings","summary":"by Nan Spowart Journalist","date_modified":"2021-09-26T15:54:53Z"},{"id":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/kio-griffith-artist-curator-writer-producer-designer","html_content":"

a box in a box of a boxed canvas embedding varicolored boxes shifting freely conversely revealing light chiming fifty-four spectrum of possibilities into this momentum of paradox.

","url":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/kio-griffith-artist-curator-writer-producer-designer","title":"Kio Griffith / Artist, Curator, Writer, Producer & Designer","summary":"a box in a box of a boxed canvas embedding varicolored boxes shifting freely conversely revealing light chiming fifty-four spectrum of possibilities into this momentum of paradox.","date_modified":"2021-09-23T07:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/kevin-harrison-arts-manager-producer","html_content":"

In the Morning Light

","url":"https://beautifulmaterials.co/bm-dialogue/f/kevin-harrison-arts-manager-producer","title":"Kevin Harrison/ Arts Manager & Producer","summary":"In the Morning Light","date_modified":"2021-09-22T08:36:33Z"}]}