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Grace Nickel, RCA is a Canadian ceramic artist and art instructor in post-secondary education.
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Personal background
Grace Nickel was born in 1956. She earned her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Manitoba in 1980; Museology Studies certificate, University of Winnipeg in 1981 and; MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2008. She has participated in three Ceramic Residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts. In the summer of 1999, she was invited to the 9th National Ceramic Conference in Perth, Australia. There she demonstrated her work in paper clay as well as presenting work of Manitoba's ceramic community. Grace Nickel teaches ceramics full-time in the School of Art of the University of Manitoba.
Body of work
In 1991 she discovered paper clay while at the Banff Centre. Since that time she has employed that material to create sculptural ceramics. She has developed a number of architectural installations, including the Meditation Window at the St. Norbert Arts Centre in Manitoba, and Sanctuary, NCECA in Minneapolis, USA, 1995. Nickel completed a number of site-specific commissions, including tile installations and sculptural lighting for public and private architectural spaces. In 1999 she created a tile triptych to honour of the hosting of the Pan Am Games that was subsequently exhibited at Winnipeg City Hall. She created a work for the entrance to the Beechwood National Cemetery in Ottawa, Ontario.
Selected collections
Nickel's work appears in many public and private collections around the world. In Canada her work is included in:
In addition her work has been acquired by:
Selected exhibitions
Nickel's work has been extensively exhibited including in the United States and overseas in Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Taiwan, including,
and in Canada, solo exhibitions at,
Awards
Nickel has been successful in a number of overseas competitions including;