Nancy Collantine
Recent exhibitions include Cross Currents at Helm Gallery in New York, The Pearls and the Oyster, Birley Studios, Preston, The Landscape – three person show with Comme Ça Gallery and The Cabinet of Fancy, Terrace Gallery, Huddersfield and A bell is a cup until it is struck, Bloc Projects in Sheffield.
A member of A Small Space Collective
Established Mura Ma, independent Art Space and Gallery in January 2023.
Finalist in the Beep Painting Prize 2022
Recipient of the Castlefield Gallery Development Award 2022, Manchester Open
Turps Correspondence Course 2020-2022
Biography
Nan Collantine lives and works not far from Manchester in the north west of England, her studio is in the former textile mill, Goyt Mill in Marple, Stockport.
From 2020-22 Nan took part in the Turps Correspondence Course to develop her painting and drawing practice. In 2019 she started Dez Rez Projects, a DIY exhibition production that organises opportunities for emerging artists outside of the gallery system and in 2020 opened the Northern Atelier studio with the aim of offering artist-led opportunities to the local community and further afield. From 2023-2024 she established Mura Ma art space, which is currently paused whilst she concentrates on her painting.
Aside from studying at Foundation level in 1989, Nancy is a self-taught artist, a former student of an alternative art school, the Islingon Mill Art Academy. Nan has exhibited in group shows around the North West, London and New York and is the recipient of the Castlefield Gallery Artist Professional Development Award as part of the Manchester Open 2022.
It was whilst living in Australia from 2016-17 that Nancy returned to study and develop my art practice, it was here she studied Australian landscape painting, inspired by paintings by Nongirrna Marawili, Tony Tuckson, Brett Whiteley, Aida Tomescu and John Olsen. Australian landscape painting and its unique connection to place and spirit has been a significant influence on her practice and her interest in human connection to place.