Originally from Tillicoultry in Clackmannanshire, Nicola McInally graduated in 2001 from Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, with a BA (Hons) Fine Art, specialising Painting. After developing her practice for several years, Nicola received a Visual Artist Craft Makers Award from Creative Scotland in 2019, which led to her membership Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop (FDPW), to explore etching techniques.
Memories and drawings contemplating motherhood, autobiography, and landscape from the basis of her artwork. The recollected landscapes in her work hold personal significance. She is fascinated by the various processes within etching and one that particularly appeals is chine-colle. Her layers of painted rice paper used within this process are held together by a rhythmic flow of etched patterns, conveying the waves of memories and the emergence of these fleeting thoughts.
Nicola has exhibited widely across Scotland, including a solo exhibition at Grampian Hospital Arts Trust and in several selected large group shows at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and Aberdeen Art Gallery. In 2023, two of Nicola’s prints were selected for the Curated Hang at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London where she was chosen as one of the Top Picks of the fair by WCPF panellist, Tom Hammick. In early 2024, Nicola featured in Issue 25 of Pressing Matters magazine.
Nicola has exhibited widely across Scotland, including a solo exhibition at Grampian Hospital Arts Trust and in several selected large group shows at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and Aberdeen Art Gallery. In 2023, two of Nicola’s prints were selected for the Curated Hang at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London where she was chosen as one of the Top Picks of the fair by WCPF panellist, Tom Hammick. In early 2024, Nicola featured in Issue 25 of Pressing Matters magazine.
