Education
Exhibitions
2019 - Hollow Chambers, Crypt Gallery, London - group show
2017 - Resistance - City Lore Gallery, New York - group show
2017 - installation ‘Jerusalem Dreams’ part of the Balfour exhibit at the Jerusalem Biennale
2017 - The Divine Female - The Jewish Museum, Vienna - group show
2016 - The New Venice Haggadah - Jewish Museum, Venice - group show
2015 - Sacrifice - Jewish Museum, London - group show
2015 - Blood - Jewish Museum, London - group show (and at The Polin Museum, Warsaw in 2017)
2015 - Evil: A Matter of Intent - HUC Museum, New York - group show
2015 - Women of the Book - Jerusalem Biennale - group show
2015 - Out Of Chaos: 100 Years of Ben Uri, Somerset House, London - group show
2015 - Male & Female: He Created Them? installation in collaboration with Idan Cohen Dance Co, Tel Aviv
2015 - Time, Text & Torah - JCC San Fransisco - solo show
2013 - Tosefot: Women Drawing Talmud, Ein Harod Art Museum, Israel - show with Yonah Lavery Yisraeli
2013 - The Golden Ghetto, Venice, Italy - group show
2013 - The Jerusalem Biennale, Jerusalem, Israel - group show
2013 - The Seventh Day, Museum at HUC, New York - group show
2012 - Jacqueline Nicholls: New Works, Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, JCC Manhattan, NYC, USA - solo show
2012 - Spectrum of Sexuality, Museum at HUC, New York - group show
2012 - Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art, Ein Harod Art Museum, Israel - group show
2011 - The Ladies Guild Collection, Oval House Theatre Gallery, London - solo show
2011 - Faith in the City, London - group show
2010 - 'Armour' exhibited at interfaith arts festival with the 3 Faith Forum, London - group show
2010 - A Stitch in Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles, HUC New York - group show
2010 - The Ladies Guild Collection, displayed at the JOFA conference, New York
2010 - Apocalypse: Masterpieces from the Ben Uri Collection, London - group show
2009 - Artifice, Three Faith Forum, London - group show
2008 - Schmatte Couture, Ben Uri Museum of Jewish Art, London - group show
2004 - Red Thread Drawings, Red Gate Gallery, London - solo show
Publications — my work has been featured in the following publications
Employment
I work as a visual artist, educator and cultural events producer. Below are a selection of key projects:
- MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, July 2020
- Printmaking Techniques Diploma – London School of Printing 2001
- Fine Art Foundation – Byam Shaw School of Art 1997
- BA(hons) Degree in Architecture – Leeds Metropolitan University 1992
- In addition to these courses, I also studied Anatomical Art and Medical Illustration with the Medical Artists Association (UK) 1998
Exhibitions
2019 - Hollow Chambers, Crypt Gallery, London - group show
2017 - Resistance - City Lore Gallery, New York - group show
2017 - installation ‘Jerusalem Dreams’ part of the Balfour exhibit at the Jerusalem Biennale
2017 - The Divine Female - The Jewish Museum, Vienna - group show
2016 - The New Venice Haggadah - Jewish Museum, Venice - group show
2015 - Sacrifice - Jewish Museum, London - group show
2015 - Blood - Jewish Museum, London - group show (and at The Polin Museum, Warsaw in 2017)
2015 - Evil: A Matter of Intent - HUC Museum, New York - group show
2015 - Women of the Book - Jerusalem Biennale - group show
2015 - Out Of Chaos: 100 Years of Ben Uri, Somerset House, London - group show
2015 - Male & Female: He Created Them? installation in collaboration with Idan Cohen Dance Co, Tel Aviv
2015 - Time, Text & Torah - JCC San Fransisco - solo show
2013 - Tosefot: Women Drawing Talmud, Ein Harod Art Museum, Israel - show with Yonah Lavery Yisraeli
2013 - The Golden Ghetto, Venice, Italy - group show
2013 - The Jerusalem Biennale, Jerusalem, Israel - group show
2013 - The Seventh Day, Museum at HUC, New York - group show
2012 - Jacqueline Nicholls: New Works, Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, JCC Manhattan, NYC, USA - solo show
2012 - Spectrum of Sexuality, Museum at HUC, New York - group show
2012 - Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art, Ein Harod Art Museum, Israel - group show
2011 - The Ladies Guild Collection, Oval House Theatre Gallery, London - solo show
2011 - Faith in the City, London - group show
2010 - 'Armour' exhibited at interfaith arts festival with the 3 Faith Forum, London - group show
2010 - A Stitch in Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles, HUC New York - group show
2010 - The Ladies Guild Collection, displayed at the JOFA conference, New York
2010 - Apocalypse: Masterpieces from the Ben Uri Collection, London - group show
2009 - Artifice, Three Faith Forum, London - group show
2008 - Schmatte Couture, Ben Uri Museum of Jewish Art, London - group show
2004 - Red Thread Drawings, Red Gate Gallery, London - solo show
Publications — my work has been featured in the following publications
- Jews, Money, Myth, visual essay in the exhibition catalogue, Jewish Museum London, 2019
- The Talmud: A Biography (Life of Great Religious Books) Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Princeton University Press 2018
- Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art, Ben Schachter, Penn University State Press 2017
- Art + Religion in the 21st Century, Aaron Rosen, Thames & Hudson 2015
- Fashion, Shame & Pride: Constructing the Modern Fashion Industry In Three Faiths, Reina Lewis, chapter in The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics, Springer Netherlands, 2015
- Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions, Stephen Frosh, Palgrave 2013
- Matronita, edited by Daphna Raf, Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod 2012
Employment
I work as a visual artist, educator and cultural events producer. Below are a selection of key projects:
- Artist-in-residence with Manchester University Jewish Studies Department, on their 50 Jewish Objects project, based at the John Rylands Library, May-June 2019.
- Arts & Culture Programmer at JW3, an arts venue and community centre in London. Role includes producing music events, co-ordinating the Art Studio programme, hosting the Art Salon, a forum for exploring different themes with contemporary art and artists, relating those themes to a Jewish context. And hosting the Misogynist Film Club, a tongue-in-cheek feminist take on cinema. 2013-Present
- Teaching drawing as a visiting artist to children in various schools, vulnerable young adults at The School of Confidence, and with adults at the Art Studio at JW3. 2009 - Present
- Artist-in-Resident for LabShul, New York. Developed a series of daily mediative drawings for contemplation around the themes of regret, renewal and spirituality. 2017
- Bestiary of Fear - worked with the staff at the Hebrew Manuscripts Department at the British Library, developed a series of drawings about fear and monsters inspired by the beasts in the marginalia of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts in their collection. After completing the series, I wrote about the project for their website http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/10/bestiary-of-fears-an-artists-inspiration-from-illustrated-hebrew-manuscripts.html 2016
- Head Artist for the New Venice Haggadah, commissioned by Beit Venezia. Worked with 8 artists at the printmaking studio Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice. The artists were invited to create a response to both the original 1629 Venice Haggadah, and their experience of contemporary Venice. Role included planning the programme, mentoring the artists, and organising the group to hand-print the edition of 25 of the 24 etchings. 2015
- Produced a short film in collaboration with the musician Jewlia Eisenberg, commissioned by G-dcast, an online Jewish education company that works with artists to produce short films around Jewish themes. Our film, The Wise Have Eyes, explores the mystical relationship between the soul, sacred text and God, using as inspiration a text from the Zohar, an esoteric Kabbalistic work. 2015
- Regular contributor to Pause for Thought, BBC Radio 2. Includes researching, writing and broadcasting the segments. And was included in their publication Pause For Thought, published by Watkins 2012 - Present