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Winner, Interior Art Prize, Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW, 2024
Early Career Award, Grace Cossington Smith Award 2024, Grace Gossington Smith Gallery, 2024
Highly Commended, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2020, PLC Croydon, Sydney 2020
Selected for the Salon des refusés with paintings for both the alternate Archibald Prize for portraiture in 2023 and 2021 and the alternate Wynne Prize for landscape in 2021, S. H. Ervine Gallery

Regional Gallery solo exhibition for Nic Mason: Cycle, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 2022,  involving Artist Led Workshops, presentations and media interviews supported by a NSW Government Small Project Grant (2021)

Regional Gallery group exhibition, Conversations with Clarice Beckett, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange​, 2024-25, supported by  the National Gallery of Australia and Orange Regional Arts Foundation
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​Group exhibition coordination with fellow artist's from the 2019 UNSW Honours Cohort Grey Foundations, a exhibition at WAYOUT Art Space, a Cementa Initiative, Kandos 2022-23

​The Squatters Residency at The Foundations, Portland, NSW 2024
Bundanon Artist in Residence program, Bundanon Trust, NSW, 2019
Art of Threatened Species residency, a collaboration between Orana Arts Inc and the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, supported by Create NSW, 2018-2019, culminating in the Art of Threatened Species exhibition at Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo 2019-2020.

​Leading  Painting and Drawing workshops for kids, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, 2024
Leading a Charcoal Drawing Workshop for Teens, The Uncooperative, WAYOUT Art Space, A Cementa Initiative, Kandos, 2023

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), University of New South Wales, Art & Design, 2020 (Dean's List for Academic Excellence recipient 2019)
Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies (ACICIS), Creative Art and Design Professional Practicum, study at Universities Sanata Dharma and internship/residency at Babaran Segaragunung Culture House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2020, with a 
New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government


STATEMENT
Nic Mason is an artist living and working near Bathurst in Wiradjuri country in regional Australia.  She primarily utilises painting and drawing in her art practice where she is interested in the possibilities of enticing new ways of thinking through connection and engagement with art.  She is richly informed by her background in conservation and land management following her Bachelor of Science degree.  She is in the early stages of her art career following studies in the Painting Workshop at the Australian National University in 2016/17 and her honours year at in Fine Arts at University of New South Wales in 2019/20.


EDUCATION
2020       Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), University of New South Wales, Art & Design (Dean's List for Academic Excellence recipient 2019)
2017       Graduate Certificate of Art (Painting Workshop), Australian National University
2012       Certificate III in Visual Arts, Western Institute (Bathurst) TAFE
2009-11  Subjects in Visual Arts, Nepean Arts and Design Centre (Kingswood) TAFE
2003       Certificate IV in workplace training and assessment, Sydney Institute (Ultimo) TAFE
​1999       Bushland Regeneration Certificate IV, Northern Sydney Institute (Ryde) TAFE
1997       Bushland Regeneration Certificate II Northern Sydney Institute (Ryde) TAFE
1996       Bachelor of Science majoring in Land and Resource Management, Macquarie University
 
SCHOLARSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, PROJECTS, STIPENDS & GRANTS
2024-25   Conversations with Clarice Beckett, Orange Regional Gallery (ORG) with The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), (including NGA visit behind the scenes, group exhibition at ORG,
​                 tutoring public workshops and curator led panel discussion)
2024        The Squatters Residency, The Foundations, Portland
​2023        Ironbark Residency at The Railway Hotel, Orana Arts Inc and the STAA, Stuart Town
​2022        Travel and 
Accommodation Stipend in relation to the Grey Foundations group exhibition December 2022 to January 2023, WAYOUT Art Space, a Cementa Initiative
2021        NSW Government Small Project Grant through Create NSW for the development of new work for Cycle 2022, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
                Arts Restart Grant 2021, NSW Government via Orana Arts to support Nic Mason's Home Residency 2021
2020        Arts OutWest Mirco Grant, May 2020, Arts OutWest
                Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies (ACICIS), Creative Art and Design Professional Practicum, study at Universities Sanata Dharma and
​                internship/residency at Babaran Segaragunung Culture House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (January-February)
2019        New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant (related to the ACICIS program), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government
                Bundanon Artist in Residence program, Bundanon Trust, NSW
2018-19  Art of Threatened Species self directed residency, a collaboration between Orana Arts Inc and the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
2018        Artstate Bathurst bursary recipient, Arts OutWest and Regional Arts NSW  

2017        NSW Artist Grant, Create NSW, National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
                Centre d'Art Marnay Art Centre (Camac) Residency with subvention from the Fondation Ténot, Marnay-sur-Seine, France 
                Independent residency project, Atelier of AMIS des Arts d'Albi, France
​                Shortlisted and Highly Commended, Start Your Studio Art and Design Scholarship 2017, Windsor & Newton Australia
2014       Henry Malouf Scholarship 2014, The Art Scene Mitchell School of the Arts

SOLO AND TWO/THREE  PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025        Nic + Rebecca duo exhibition, Gallery of Small Things, GOST,  Watson, ACT (two person exhibition with Rebecca Dowling)
2024       Still Life and Interiors, Madeline Gordon Gallery in collaboration with A K Bellinger Gallery,
Launceston, Tasmania (with Matilda Michell and Tracy Murray) 
2023       Happenings, Michael Reid Murrurundi, Murrurundi, NSW (solo exhibition)
​2022       Cycle, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW (solo exhibition)

             From France to Here, Project Gallery 90, Paddington, NSW (solo exhibition)
2021       Paintings within Paintings, Project Gallery 90, Paddington, NSW (solo exhibition)
2020       Still Home, Project Gallery 90, Paddington, NSW (two person exhibition with Alison Mackay)
2019       Still and Within, Project Gallery 90, Paddington, NSW (two person exhibition with Alison Mackay)
2018       Résidence
, A K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW (solo exhibition)
              
BALANCE, CSIRO Discovery Centre Gallery, Gallery of Small Things, GOST, Acton, ACT (solo exhibition)
2017       STILL, Tablelands Artists Cooperative Gallery, t.arts Gallery, Bathurst, NSW (solo exhibition)
               An Unguarded Moment, A. K. Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW (two person exhibition with Kiata Mason)

2016       WILD, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW (solo exhibition)

PRIZE EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER RECOGNITION
2025        Winner: Central Belonging Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
                Winner: Portland Art Prize - Ron Bidwell Art Prize, Portland Art Purchase Society, Portland, NSW
                Finalist: Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, Muswellbrook, NSW
                Finalist: St Columba's Prize, St Columba's College, Springwood, NSW
2024        Winner: Interior Art Prize, Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW
                Winner: Early Career Art Award, Grace Cossington Smith Art Award, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga, NSW
​                Finalist: Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award, South East Centre for Contemporary Art
​                Finalist: MAP Portrait Prize, Mudgee Arts Precinct, Mudgee, NSW 
                Finalist: Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
                Finalist: Tim Copes Portrait Prize, Bowral Art Gallery, NSW
2023        Commended: Unearthed 2023, Gulgong Arts Council, Gulgong NSW
                Finalist: Georges River Art Prize, Hurstville Museum and Gallery, Hurstville, NSW
​                Selected: 
Salon des refusés (the alternate Archibald Prize for portraiture), S. H. Ervin Gallery, NSW
                Finalist: Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
                Finalist: Hornsby Art Prize, Hornsby Shire Council, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
                Finalist: Into the Light, Whitewall Art Prize, Whitewall Art Projects, Berrima, NSW
                Finalist: Lane Cove Art Award, Lane Cove Art Society, Lane Cove Gallery, Lane Cove, NSW
                Finalist: The Agency Still Life Prize, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral, NSW
​                Finalist: Remagine Art Prize,
Hornsby Shire Council, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
                Finalist: Milburn Art Prize, Brisbane Institute of Art, Old
                Finalist: Collie Art Prize, Collie Art Gallery, WA        

                Finalist: Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Art Gallery, NSW
2022        Winner: Federation Art Prize, 2D section, Corowa Memorial Hall, Corowa, NSW        
                Finalist: Paddington Art Prize, Defiance Gallery, Paddington, NSW
                Finalist: Redland Art Award, Redland Art Gallery, Qld
​                Finalist: BAM Art Prize, Byron Arts Magazine, Northern Rivers Community Gallery, NSW
               
Finalist: Basil Sellers Art Prize, Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre, Moruya, NSW
                
Finalist: Lake Art Prize, Museum of Art and Culture, yapping, Lake Macquarie, NSW

                Finalist: GreenWay Art Prize, Sydney Bus Museum, Leichhardt, NSW
                Finalist: Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
                Finalist: Tacit Still Life Art Prize, Tacit Art, Collingwood, Vic               
                Finalist: Hornsby Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW

                Finalist: Kangaroo Valley Art Prize, Arts in the Valley, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
                Finalist: Maritime Art Prize, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands, Victoria
                Finalist: Whitsundays Art Prize, Whitsundays Arts Festival, Airlie Beach, Old
                Finalist: Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Art Gallery, NSW
​                Selected: The Agency Still Life Prize, Bowral Art Gallery, NSW
2021        Runner-up: Remagine Art Prize (painting section), Hornsby Shire Council, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, NSW
                Selected: Salon des refusés (the alternate Archibald Prize for portraiture), S. H. Ervin Gallery, NSW
                Selected: 
Salon des refusés (the alternate Wynne Prize for landscape), S. H. Ervin Gallery, NSW
​                Finalist: Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, Montsalvat, Vic
​2020        
Highly Commended: Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2020, PLC Croydon, Croydon, NSW 
             
Finalist: Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
                Finalist: Blacktown Art Prize, The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown, NSW
​                Finalist: The Vincent Prize, Art Van Go at Duckrabbit Gallery, Redfern, NSW
                Finalist: Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, NSW
                Finalist: Southern Buoy Studios, SBS Portrait Prize, Mornington Peninsula, Vic
​2019        Finalist: Jenny Birt Award, University of New South Wales, Sydney
                Finalist: Mini Series Art Prize, The Corner Store Gallery, Orange
​                Finalist: John Villiers Outback Art Prize, Outback Art Gallery, Waltzing Matilda Art Centre, Winton

                Finalist: Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra
​                Finalist: Southern Buoy Studios, SBS Portrait Prize, Mornington
                Finalist: Milburn Art Prize, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane
2018        Finalist: Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize, Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney
               
Finalist: The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize (emerging section), South Australian Museum, Adelaide
                Finalist: Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra
             Finalist: Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollarah Art School, Sydney
                
Finalist: John Copes Portrait Prize, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral
​                Finalist: Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
​                Finalist: Fleurieu Biennale, South Australia
                Finalist: Pirtek Still life Award, Bowral Art Gallery
​                Finalist: Hunters Hill Art Prize, Hunters Hill

​                Finalist: Southern Buoy Studios, SBS Portrait Prize, Mornington
​                Finalist: Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize, Melbourne
2017        Winner: painting section, Textures of One, Blayney
                Finalist: Le Salon d'Automne, AMIS des Arts d'Albi, Albi, France
​                Finalist: Brisbane Art Prize, Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane
​                Finalist: Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Sydney

                Finalist: Footscray Art Prize (Tertiary Prize), Melbourne
​                Finalist: Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra
​                Finalist: Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize, Melbourne
2016        
Winner: Winmalee Artfest, Winmalee High School, Winmalee
              Winner: TaranArchie, Tarana Red Cross, Tarana
                Runner Up: All Saints Festival of Arts, Bathurst
             
Highly Commended: Blackheath Art Prize, Blackheath Art Society, Blackheath
                
The People's Choice Award: Blackheath Art Prize, Blackheath Art Society, Blackheath
​                Finalist: ANU School of Art Drawing Prize, School of Art Gallery, ANU, Acton, ACT
​                Finalist: KAAF Art Prize, Korea-Australia Arts Foundation, Sydney

​                Finalist: Brisbane Art Prize, Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane
​                Finalist: Flanagan Art Prize, St Patrick's College, Ballarat
​                Finalist: Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra
2015        Winner: Central West Regional Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, Cowra
​                Winner (Acquisitive): Oberon Archie, Columbia Aged Care, Oberon Village Art Award, Oberon
                The People's Choice Award: All Saint's College Festival of Art, Bathurst
                Finalist: Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize, Melbourne
2014       Semi Finalist: Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2013      
Winner, Portrait section: Evans Arts Council Prize, Bathurst   
                The  People’s Choice Award: Evans Arts Council Prize, Bathurst      
    

             Semi Finalist: Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize                 
                Finalist: North Sydney Art Prize, Sydney
2011       Second Prize: Blackheath Art Prize, Blackheath Art Society, Blackheath              
                Finalist: Hornsby Art Prize, Sydney

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OTHER GROUP EXHIBITIONS
​2024-25   Conversations with Clarice Beckett, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, supported by Orange Regional Arts Foundation and the National Gallery of Australia
                 Textures of One - Harvest, Sidetrack Arts, Blayney
                 Journey, Country Universities Centre, Mudgee
​2024        Gallery of Small Things Christmas Show, Canberra

                Solstice Inner West Salon, Scratch Art Space, marrickville
​                WRAP 2024 Small Artwork Prize,  East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale, Vic
                Here Now, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
                Incognito Art Show, Sydney
​                Textures of One, Sidetrack Arts, Blayney
​                Frost and Fire, T.Arts Gallery, Bathurst
​                Weaving Ancestral Threads, works by First Nations and non-indigenous artists, Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow
                Looking for Australia, A K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell
                Portland Art Show, Portland Art Purchase Society, Portland, NSW
2023        Here Now, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
​                From this Place, Little Magpie Gallery, Cowra
                T.Arts Gallery 10 year group exhibition, Tablelands Artists Cooperative Gallery, Bathurst
                Bathurst Regional Art Gallery BRAGS Art Fair, Bathurst
​                Peel Jam, The Marmalade Festival, Peel
2022-23   Grey Foundations, WAYOUT Art Space, a Cementa Initiative, Kandos
2022        
Small Works Xmas show, Project Gallery 90, Paddington
​                Here / Now, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange
                Festival of Natives, Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow
​                30 x 30 & Ceramics, Project Gallery 90
                Fish, Oysters and Other Things, Project Gallery 90
                Drawing Exhibition, Hill End Gallery, Hill End Arts Council, Hill End
​2021        Christmas rollout, Gallery of Small Things, Canberra
                Art & Dialogue, Babaran Segaragunung, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
                Xmas show 2021, Project Gallery 90, Paddington
                20 x 20 show 2021, Project Gallery 90, Paddington
​                Summer Show 2021, Project Gallery 90, Paddington
​                At the Station, Arts Hub Blayney, Blayney, NSW
​2020        Invincible 2020, Tremain's Mill, Bathurst
​                Small Works exhibition, Project Gallery 90, Paddington
                Christmas show, Gallery of Small Things, Canberra
​                Listening in the Anthropocene Exhibition, Creative Practice Circle, Charles Sturt University, online exhibition
                Curators Pick, Volume II, Project Gallery 90, Paddington
​                Small & Humble, Gallery of Small Things with Humble House Gallery, Canberra
​2019        A&D Annual 19, Graduate exhibition, UNSW Galleries, Paddington
​                Art of Threatened Species, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo
                Bathurst Art Fair, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
                Here / Now, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange
                Group exhibition stock room show, Project Gallery 90, Paddington
2018       Group exhibition, Project Gallery 90, Paddington, Paddington

             Movers and Shapers, Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Southerland Art Centre, Sydney
             Big Country, A K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell
            
About Place, Tablelands Artists Cooperative Gallery, Bathurst, as part of ArtState Bathurst Fringe
                Spring Invitational, Tablelands Artists Cooperative Gallery, Bathurst
                Here Now, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange
​                All Saints Festival of Art, Bathurst
2017       Open Studios, Centre d'Art Marnay Art Centre (Camac) Residency, Marnay-sur-Seine, France 
​                Christmas Exhibition, A. K. Bellinger Gallery, Inverell
​                An Unguarded Moment, two person exhibition with Kiata Mason, A. K. Bellinger Gallery, Inverell
​                Portraits Group Exhibition, Corner Store Gallery, Orange
​                Pirtek Still Life Exhibition, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral
​                Small Works 2017, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
​                All Saints Festival of Art, Bathurst
​                Candor of Doubt, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville, Sydney
​                Tablelands Artist's Cooperative Gallery, t.arts Gallery, Bathurst
2016       Turon Art Group Sofala 13th Biennial Art Exhibition, Sofala
​                John Copes Portrait Prize, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral
​                Tablelands Artist's Cooperative Gallery, t.arts Gallery, Bathurst 
2015       Bathurst Art Fair, Bathurst Regional Gallery
               200 Plants and Animals exhibition, Bathurst Community Climate Change Network, Bathurst               
                t.arts on tour, Grenfell Art Gallery, Grenfell
                Art of Our Place, Bathurst Arts Trail, Bathurst
                Tablelands Artist's Cooperative Gallery, t.arts GALLERY, Bathurst
2014       The Idea of North, in Mayfield Shearing Shed, O’Connell Public School, Oberon               
                Tablelands Artist’s Cooperative Gallery, t.arts GALLERY, Bathurst
2013       Bathurst Art Fair, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Society, Bathurst              
                Tablelands Artist’s Cooperative Gallery, t.arts GALLERY, Bathurst                  
                Freedom to…, The Tate, Glebe            
2012       Tarana Art Show, Tarana  
           
                Raw, Western Institute of TAFE, Bathurst                   
                Blackheath Art Prize, Blackheath Art Society, Blackheath
2011       Glenbrook Potters Exhibition, Glenbrook                   
                Me, Myself and I, Nepean Arts and Design Centre, Kingswood            
2010       Blackheath Easter Exhibition, Blackheath Art Society, Blackheath             
                Me, Myself and I, Nepean Arts and Design Centre, Kingswood            
                Glenbrook Potters Exhibition, Glenbrook

COLLECTIONS
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
​Babaran Segaragunung Culture House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
​Centre d'Art, Marnay Art Centre, Camac, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
Columbia Aged Care Services, Oberon, NSW
Various private collections (in Australia, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany, New Zealand, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America)


PUBLICATIONS CATALOGUES INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES
2025      Galah Weekly Newsr Feb 2 2025 The great doctor auction, Digital Galah Press
2024       Summer Kits Art Trail 2024 25 Orange Regional Gallery, Activity brochure      
2022       Grey Foundations, by Lucy Smith, WAYOUT Art Space, A Cementa Initiative, Kandos 2022-23
               Between the Light and the Dark, by Dr Anastasia Murney, companion essay to the Grey Foundations Catalogue, WAYOUT Art Space, A Cementa Initiative, Kandos 2022-23 
               Nicola Mason, Cycle catalogue, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 9 April - 5 June 2022, essay by Tracy Sorensen
               Nicola Mason by Artist Profile, Artist Profile May 2022
              
New art at the gallery, p1 and Gallery to open new art displays, p4. by Sam Bolt,  Western Advocate 7 April 2022 
               2BS radio interview with Dom Ingersole 8 April 2022
               ABC Central West radio interview with Alex James 14 April 2022
               2MCE Charles Sturt University community radio with Brett Van Heekeren 17 May 2022
               2BS radio interview on Brekky with Pecky (Kerry Peck) 23 May 2022

2021       Paintings within Paintings, works by Nic Mason, 2021 Catalogue, Project Gallery 90, essay by Rebecca Wilson
2020       
Introducing six creative identities in the Bathurst region by Steven Cavanagh,  Arts Outwest, Western Advocate 18 August 2020
               Visual Feast of Art at Tremain's Mill this weekend, Western Advocate 3 December 2020

​               Still Home, works by Nic Mason & also featuring Alison Mackay, 2020, Project Gallery 90 
               Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2020 Exhibition of Finalists 29 February - 27 March 2020 Exhibition Catalogue, Adelaide Perry Gallery
2019
      Still and Within, works by Alison Mackay & Nic Mason, 2019 Catalogue, Project Gallery 90
                Nic Mason and Art of Threatened Species, Interview with Portia Lyndsay, Orana Arts, 2019
2018       Résidence
, Nic Mason, exhibition catalogue, A K Bellinger Gallery, essay by Dr Gareth Jenkins
               BALANCE, CSIRO Discovery Centre Gallery, Nic Mason exhibition catalogue, Gallery of Small Things 2018, essay by Catherine Atkins
2017       Les artistes en residence au Camac ont presente leurs creations, L'est Éclair, 1 December 2017
​                STILL Nic Mason exhibition catalogue, Tablelands Artists Cooperative Gallery, essay by Corey Tatz
​                Exhibition showcases Nic’s major passion, Maryanne Jacques, Western Advocate 21 February 2017
​                t.arting up the STILLness, Bathurst City Life 16-22 February 2017

​                Whats On across the NSW Central West, Arts Outwest February 2017
2016       WILD Nic Mason exhibition catalogue, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, essay by Tracy Sorensen
                Korea Australia Arts Foundation, KAAF Art Prize 2016, Catalogue, Korea Cultural Centre Australia
​                Central NSW Discover Magazine, April 2016 Wild and shared interest in art p 23
​                Western Advocate, What's on 18-24 April, Catch the Wild Bus
​                Cowra Guardian, new exhibitons a the Cowra Gallery 18.3.16
​                Cowra Guardian, Workshops to keep kids entertained during the holidays 8.4.16
2015       Bathurst City Life, Art Success, 23-29 July 2015
                ABC Central West Radio interview with Tim Brunero and Arts Outwest, Brooke Lenon 9.5.15
2013-14  Western Advocate articles: New artists right on the button 14.5.14; Art takes Nicola on a lovely ride 5.10.13; Snap Shot
                 Arts at heart
27.9.13 p2; They’re calling it the t.arts Gallery; 18.9.13 p8. Hundreds happy to take Evans art to heart 13.8.13
2012       Advertisement: on a Penrith bus, Self portrait printed on the side of a  bus as part of the advertisement for
                2013 art courses at Nepean Arts and Design Centre
2011       Book: Self portrait selected for Me Myself & I (2011) Nepean Arts and Design Centre
2010       Book: Self portrait selected for Me Myself & I (2010) Nepean Arts and Design Centre


COMMUNITY ARTS INVOLVEMENT AND FACILITATION OF WORKSHOPS
2024-25  Committee Member, Sidetrack Arts, Platform Arts Hub Blayney
2025       Curator led Artist Panel Discussion with Curator Lucy Stranger, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
                Artist led painting workshop: Nic Mason, plain air painting for Adults, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
                School Holiday Workshop: Painting en plain air with Nic Mason, kids workshop, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
​                Summer Art Workshops: Super Self-Portraits: Painting & Drawing with workshop tutor Nic Mason, kids workshop, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra
2024       Summer Art Workshops: Animal Portrait Painting and Drawing, two workshops for kids, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra
2023       In Conversation talk with Lilium Burrows, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) Audience Engagement Officer, BRAG Society Art Fair Artist Talk Series, BRAG, Bathurst
               Studio Co!Lab Zoom Talk with Therese Gabrielle Wilkins in conversation with Alicia Leggett, Orana Arts Inc, online
               Charcoal Drawing Workshop for Teens, The Uncooperative, WAYOUT Art Space, A Cementa Initiative, Kandos 

2022       In Conversation with Julian Woods, Audience Participation Officer, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, public talk at part of Cycle exhibition
               Presentation and workshop, Cycle exhibition walkthrough and Workshop with year 9 school children from Scots All Saints College, Bathurst
               Presentation, Cycle exhibition walkthrough with Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Society members
               Artist Led Workshops, with the general public, Cycle exhibition, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
               Volunteer, Cementa22, Cementa Arts Festival, Kandos
2021       Presentation, Art in the Park Bathurst
2020       Plein Air painting during Invincible 2020 weekend event at Tremain's Mill, Bathurst
               Talking within the Pop-up Exhibition, 
Listening in the Anthropocene Symposium, Creative Practice Circle, Charles Sturt University, zoom webinar
2019       Panel discussion with collaborating artists and scientists as part of Art of Threatened Species exhibition facilitated by Kent Buchanan, Curator, Western Plains Cultural Centre 
2018       Artist in school, sculpture workshop for O'Connell Public School, Year 5/6 camp, Yarrabin
                Co-presenter with Dr Greg Pritchard and Kelly Leonard, Art of Threatened Species presentation, ArtState Bathurst conference, Bathurst Memorial
                Entertainment Centre, Regional Arts NSW, Arts Outwest
                Artist talk, Art in the Park, Bathurst
​                Presentation, Arts Outwest Twilight Networking Night, Webb & Co Bar, Bathurst
2017       Presentation, Centre d'Art, Marnay Art Centre, Camac, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
​                Artist in school, poster workshop for O'Connell Public School, Year 3/4
​                Artist at work, sculpture table, Habitat for Biodiversity day, Napoleon Reef
​                Plein air demonstration, Art in the Park, Bathurst
2014-17  Director, Tablelands Artists’ Cooperative Gallery, Bathurst
2016       Artist in school, sculpture workshop for O'Connell Public School, Year 5/6 camp, Yarrabin

​                Artist in school, sculpture workshops at O'Connell Public School, Bathurst Small Schools Creative Arts Festival
​                School holiday sculpture workshops, Cowra Regional Art Gallery
​                Artist in school, sculpture workshops at Hill End Public School
2015       Artist in school program, painting workshop at Neville Public School, A Heritage Country School
2014       Artist in school, sculpture workshops at Meadow Flat Public School, Bathurst Small Schools Creative Arts Festival 
                Presenting on t.arts Gallery at Arts Outwest Winter Networking Night with Peckakucha, Webb & Co Bar, Bathurst
2013       Member, Tablelands Artists’ Cooperative Gallery,  Bathurst             
                Renzaglia Wines, Art in the Vineyard, Bread Week with T.Arts Gallery, O’Connell            
                Evans Arts Council fundraising public still life demonstration, Bathurst             
                O’Connell Public School art classes with Katherine Horan, O’Connell


ONGOING PRACTICE AND LEARNING
2025        Creative Plus Business workshops with Arts OutWest, The Foundations, Portland, and WAYOUT Artspace, Kandos, NSW
2024        Fran O'Neill Drawing Marathon, The Annexe, The Portland Workshops, The Foundations, Portland, NSW
                Tonee Messiah Colour Composition and Play, The Annexe, The Portland Workshops, The Foundations, Portland, NSW
                Creative Plus business workshops with Arts OutWest at Orange Regional Gallery,  Orange, T.Arts Gallery, Bathurst and Gang Gang Gallery Lithgow.
​2023.       Creative Plus Business workshops with Arts OutWest at Molong and Forbes
2020        Batik workshop, with Nia Fliam and Agus Ismoyo, Babaran Segaragunung Culture House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2009-19  various life drawing and/or plein air groups including Movers and Shapers, Art in the Park - Bathurst, Merilyn Rice life drawing, Tim Miller life drawing ….
2018       Plein air workshop with Sinead Davies, Cowra Regional Art Gallery

2017       Nature morte avec Maria Ascension Moraleda, Amis des Arts d'Albi, France
2016       Portrait workshop with David Newman-White, Carcoar
​2015       Studio set up in Napoleon Reef
2014       Art Business Basics, National Association of Vi
sual Artists
                Drawing workshop with Heather Vallance, Orange Regional Art Gallery
                Watercolour workshop with Cherry Hood, The Art Scene, Mitchell School of the Arts (scholarship recipient)
                The art of online, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, National Association of Visual Artists and Ochre Communications
2013       Grant writing workshop, Arts out West              
                Online marketing workshop for artists, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2012       Studio set up in O'Connell


CULTURAL EXCHANGE AND TRAVEL
2019/20  Indonesia
2017        France (and neighbouring regions)
1997-17  Intermittent travel throughout parts of Australia, the Pacific and Europe
1993-95  Two years consecutive travel and work throughout countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa

​CONSERVATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT EMPLOYMENT
2011-16  Senior Project Officer, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Office of Environment and Heritage
1995-11  Various positions with state and local government, not for profit sector and as a private consultant working primarily in the conservation and land management sector


​CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2023 - Present    Projects and Communications Administration, Arts OutWest (part-time)
2018 - Present    Postie, Australia Post Contractor (causal)



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