Nina Coulson’s practice involves numerous collaborations with fellow artists as well as non-artists. These relationships and exchanges often conclude in 'performatively activated sculptures', exploring the politics of art production in both the public and private realms. From 2002 to 2016 she worked in collaboration with artist Alex Johnson as Yoke and Zoom, making context-specific interventions into urban and rural public spaces, often involving the re-appropriation and distribution of everyday objects and designed to encourage interaction and exchange between their observers. Nina is also a co-founder and director of MOVEMENT, an artist-led project space on the platform of Worcester Foregate Street Railway Station, which has been running since 2010.
A series of performatively activated sculptures working around the concept of mediation, post collaborative practice and conflict negotiation. A multilateral tug of war where the controlled becomes uncontrollable through the action of being tethered whilst simultaneously being pulled from all sides.
Artist-led scattered-site public artwork across 6 sites across Worcestershire, UK.
A collaboration between Yoke and Zoom & N55. A live project where three-leaf and four-leaf clovers were grown within the Cell Project Space gallery space, enabling the public to find and pick a lucky clover.
A series of improvised performances, where the artist lies down in various public spaces.
A small mobile thatched cottage ready to move to any location. Re-appropriating a 1957 2 berth caravan bought on ebay, and with the potential to park virtually anywhere and to be moved through many environments. The artwork is a mutable, recreational space and a provider of shelter.
2011 Mock Tudor, Transition Gallery, London, UK
2009 Mobile Cottage Industries, Artists in residence at the Big Chill, Eastnor, UK
2008 Mobile Cottage Industries, Artists in residence, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
2005 Art Machine, British Art Show: Sideshow, Nottingham and Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2005 Cloverfield, Collaborative project with N55, Cell Project Space, London, UK
2003 Art Machine, Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo, Art Machine and Tea Party, Rice+, Tokyo
2003 Road Rage, offsite project, Shrovesbury, UK
2001 System Shutdown, Stourbridge Art Gallery, Stourbridge, UK
2018 Cooked and Raw: RCA at Liverpool Independents Biennial, UK
2018 The Lucid Dreamcatcher feat Katya Kan /4 performers, Chelsea Arts Club, London, UK
2018 Rumination's of a midnight stroll, Harlesden Highstreet London UK
2018 Lounge Arrival, Infinite Multiple, Arebyte, London, UK
2018 States of Public, Fact (Offsite Project) Liverpool, UK
2018 Embracing the Underdog Q Park, Chinatown London UK
2017 Pre-sliced Orange Slices, Light Eye Mind, London, UK
2017 Midnight Cinema, Harlesden Highstreet, London, UK
2016 ArtistsCompute, Office for Art, Design and Technology, Coventry, UK
2016 Participated in MIIfriends project, collaboration with artist Ed Fornieles, UK/ Canada
2015 Things we didn’t have before, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
2014 Turtle Salon, Article Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2014 Fete, Ceri Hand Gallery, London, UK
2013 Floor plan for an Institution, Meter Room, Coventry, UK
2011 Rural Punk, MOVEMENT, Worcester, UK
2011 Conjunction Biennial, Stoke on Trent, UK
2010 Artists Lottery Syndicate, www.artistslotterysyndicate.co.uk
2010 Witch Night, Curated by Sarah Doyle/ Sarah Sparkes, Montague Arms, London, UK
2010 We are 10 PARTY, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
2009 Give me Shelter, Meadow Arts, Attingham Park, Shropshire, UK
2009 Long Weekend, Tate Modern, London, UK
2009 Collaboration with House of Fairytales, Zoo Art Fair, London, UK
2009 The Mausoleum of Lost objects, INIVA, London
2009 Exquisite Trove, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
2008 If you build it they will come, G39, Cardiff, UK
2008 ctrl-copy, online exhibition, www.ctrl-copy.com
2007 Stick /stamp /fly, Gasworks, London, UK
2007 The most curatorial biennial of the universe, Apex Art, New York, USA
2007 Almanac of political art, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK
2007 Pigeon Post, Nottingham/Leicester/Derby, UK
2007 Temporary measures, Associates, London, UK
2006 Strategic Questions, What is Integration? Young Biennial, Bucharest
2005 The artist with two brains, MOT International, St Paul’s Church, Birmingham, UK
2005 Collective Creativity, Kassel, Germany
2004 Art Link, Ueno-Yanaka, Tokyo
2004 Thermo 04, the Lowry, Manchester, UK
2004 Do something, Floating IP Gallery, Manchester, UK
2004 Multiplus, Saltburn Artists Projects, Saltburn on Sea, UK
2004 ROYGBIV, The Infirmary, Worcester, UK
2004 Radio Radio, The International 3, Manchester, UK
2003 Resist,, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, UK
2002 Possible, yet probable, G39, Cardiff, UK
2001 Myth and Logic, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, UK
2016-7 Bransford Trust
2016-7 Arts Council Award, GFA, MOVEMENT, Organisational development/ Residency/Solo show
2016-7 Elephant Trust
2013-14 Sanctuary Housing Sponsorship for MOVEMENT
2013-15 MOVEMENT gallery, two years programming, Arts Council England Award GFA
2010 Railways Heritage Trust, Award towards renovations for MOVEMENT
2009-12 MOVEMENT gallery, programming and renovations, Arts Council England Award GFA
2006-2007 Research into Artist led galleries, Arts Council England Award, GFA
2005 Cloverfield, Research and production visit to Copenhagen, to work as part of international collaboration culminating in a major solo/collaborative show at Cell Project Space London, with Danish Art/Design group N55, Arts Council England Award GFA
2005 ROYGBIV, Worcester Royal Infirmary, Public Art commission
2003 Road Rage, Public Art Commission, Shrewsbury, UK
2003 R+D Award to identify art market in Tokyo, GFA Arts Council England Award
2001-2002 Grit and Determination, Public Art Commission, ACE Award, Rural Responses
2001-2002 Fresh ArtFair, R+D, GFA Art Council England Award, Hothaus digital art Bursary, Vivid, Birmingham
