Nick Rands,  b. 1955 Chester, UK.

Studied Fine Art at Reading University and Art Education at Bristol University/Bristol Polytechnic.

Taught art in UK and Botswana before working as art-gallery education officer. In 1992 he was Southern Arts-Brazil Exchange artist to Porto Alegre, Brazil. Moved to Brazil in 1998, and in 2016 moved to Caunes-Minervois, France.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

3000 e outras terras

Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre RS Brazil

Line by Line Peintures / Dessins 1992 - 2022

La Table des Vignerons, Trausse, France

Rue Joseph Sicard, Caunes Minervois, France

Ausência

L’anciennne boulangerie, Caunes Minervois, France

Hillfield/Arborizada

Rue Joseph Sicard, Caunes Minervois, France

2021

Dix terres a la recheche d’un système perdu

Rue Joseph Sicard, Caunes Minervois, France

Greencat gallery, Caunes Minervois, France

2018

Lost Rivers Mosaic Paintings

8 Melior Street, London, UK

Horizontes Terrestres revisited  

Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil

2017

Horizontes Terrestres  

ESPM, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2016  

Ausência

Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil

2015

Neckinger River Levels  

Bermondsey Yard, London

2012

Um Quadrado no Rio Grande do Sul

Museu Júlio de Castilhos, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2011

Um Quadrado no Rio Grande do Sul

Museu de Arte de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

A Gente

Museu do Trabalho, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil

2009

ChromaLife

Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil

2008

ChromaLife

The Brick House, Brick Lane, London

2007  

Obras Fotográficas  

Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil  

2005  

…and still counting…  

Bermondsey Street Studio, London

Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil 

2004

Painting by Numbers

Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil 

2003

Where the sea meets the sky

Fotogaleria, Porto Alegre Brazil

2001

Mud Works

Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil  

Fundação Cultural de Criciuma, Criciuma SC Brazil

Pinturas

Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, PR Brazil

Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre RS. Brazil

Earthly Spheres  

The Winchester Gallery, Winchester, UK

2000  

Pinturas

Pinacoteca da Feevale, Novo Hamburgo, RS, Brazil

Eye Levels

Galeria Iberê Camargo, Usina do Gasômetro, Porto Alegre,   

1999  

Esferas Terrestres

Torreão, Porto Alegre, Brazil

1998

Earthly spheres  

Warehouse, Norwich, UK    

Watching the waves/Sowing the seed

Windsor Arts Centre Windsor, UK

1996

Grizedale Forest Painting residency

Gallery in The Forest, Grizedale, UK     

Line by Line

Evreham Iver, Bucks, UK

1995  

Line by Line

Isambard Brunel School. Portsmouth, UK      

1994  

Line by Line

The Peveril Centre. Eastleigh, UK  

Atrium Gallery. Bournemouth University UK

Windrush Leisure Centre, Witney Oxon, UK 

Bridgemary Community School, Gosport, UK 

South Hill Park Arts Centre. Bracknell, UK

1992

Staying in Line      

Bedales Gallery, Petersfield, UK

Upstairs Gallery, Upton Park. Dorset, UK 

Instituto de Artes UFRGS Porto Alegre, R.S. Brazil   

1982

Photographic Pieces/Timed Activities

Axiom Centre, Cheltenham, UK

GROUP SHOWS

2022

Haverá consequências

Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos, Viamão-RS Brazil

Digital graffiti 2022

Alys Beach, Florida USA

2020

du neuf à Caunes

Caveaux de l’abbaye, Caunes Minervois, France

2019

Ailleurs

La Tuilerie Saint Joseph, La Livinière, France

2017

Paintings from somewhere else

Youngblood, Cape Town, South Africa

2016

Digital Graffiti 2016 

Alys Beach, Florida USA

2015

Ocupando Lucas 21  

Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre RS Brazil

2013

Magmart | international videoart festival

Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy

Digital Graffiti 2013

Alys Beach, Florida USA

7 Billionth Citizen

Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

Solent Showcase Gallery, Southampton, UK 

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK 

Mamute Galeria, Porto Alegre, Brazil 

2012

Des | Estruturas

Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos, Viamão, Brazil

2011

8th  Mercosul Biennial

Porto Alegre/RS Brazil

2010

Digital Graffiti  

Alys Beach, Florida USA

DIGIT 2010

Narrowsburg, New York, USA

Silêncios e Sussuros

Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos, Viamão, Brazil

2006

Um olhar fotográfico

Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2004  

Heterodoxia  

MASC Florianópolis – SC Brazil

1+1+1       

Museu da Gravura, Bagé, RS Brazil       

2003

1+1+1  

Galeria Gestual, Porto Alegre RS Brazil

Um território da fotografia

Galeria dos Arcos, Usina do Gasômetro, Porto Alegre,  

III Salão National de Arte de Goiás

Goiania, GO Brazil

24º Salão de Arte de Riberão Preto

Riberão Preto, SP Brazil   

2002

III Salão de Porto Alegre

Usina do Gasômetro Porto Alegre RS Brazil

II Salão National de Arte de Goiás

Goiania, GO Brazil

II Salão de Arte  

UNI-BH, Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil

Forest   

The Southern Arts Touring Exhibition Service, UK   

2000  

Bah-zart

Obra Aberta Porto Alegre RS Brazil

II Salão de Porto Alegre

Usina do Gasômetro, Porto Alegre

1999    

Chart  

Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK.

Coletiva

Obra Aberta, Galeria Chaves, Porto Alegre   

1998 

Sticks  

The Southern Arts Touring Exhibition Service, UK.   

1997

The Space of the Page      

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK.   

 

1996-7

Repetition

Corn Exchange Newbury,  UK

Winchester Gallery, UK

The Gantry, Southampton UK

Milton Keynes Crafts Guild UK

Artsway, UK

Nuova Icona, Venice, Italy

Cacco Zanchi, Aalst, Belgium   

 

1995

Words  

Aspex Gallery Portsmouth, UK

Artspace 

Square Tower Portsmouth, UK

1994  

Art Kites

Milton Keynes Kite Festival. Milton Keynes, UK

1993

On Paper

Contact Gallery, Norwich, UK

Repetere

Solar dos Camara, Porto Alegre RS Brazil

1992  

East End Open Studios  

Deborah House, Hackney, London, UK

1990  

Artists in Botswana

National Gallery of Botswana. Gaborone, Botswana

1984  

R.W.A. Annual Exhibition,  

Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK  

1982

Group Photography 2  

Axiom Centre, Cheltenham, UK

1978  

Wessex Artists  

Southampton City Art Gallery, UK