Artists

A multi-media interdisciplinary artist, Bailey began her art tuition in 1997 at Ruth Prowse Art College in Cape Town South Africa. Since 2008, she has been part of an art collective founded by artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, collectively known as Rosenclaire, which is based in both Florence, Italy and South Africa.
At first blush, Bailey’s first solo exhibition was held in 2014 at The Culture Gallery at Woodstock Exchange Cape Town, South Africa. In 2020 she presented a solo exhibition, And the Animal Responded, for Cubicle Series at Everard Read Gallery Cape Town. The tenderness of ghosts, which opened in May 2022, was Bailey’s first solo at Everard Read in Johannesburg.
Selected group exhibitions include Domestic departures at the Forge in Cape Town in 2011; In Good Company (curated by Michael Chandler) at The Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town in 2013; Art/Out of the Ordinary (curated by Marilyn Martin) at the Association of Visual Arts (AVA) in Cape Town; Conversations with Irma (curated by Christopher Peter) at The Irma Stern Museum in 2019. The most recent, Seeds of the Fig was curated by RESERVOIR in association with WHATIFTHEWORLD, on the Krone Estate Twee Jonge Gezellen Farm in Tulbagh, South Africa (2022/2023).
Living and working in Cape Town, Nicola’s artworks are collected both locally and internationally.

Biography courtesy of Everard Read Gallery.