Exhibitions
Solo
2025 Newlyn Art Gallery
Group
2026 MA Painting ‘26 - Royal College of Art
2026 Outsiders Arts Club - The Handbag Factory
2026 Salon 0502 - The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye
2025 Postcards From The Artist Studio - Split - Both Gallery
2025 Striding Edge - Unprimed Collective - The Department Store
2025 Time to Time - Unprimed Collective - Safehouse 1&2
2025 Split 2 - Cross Street Arts, Wigan
2025 Shifting Sands - CCA Galleries International (Jersey)
2025 Split - Hypha Studios X The Dispensary
2025 If Heaven Falls - The Lido Stores Margate
2025 Ugly Boat Show - Gun Brewery
2024 All In - Fresh Salad Art
2024 Unprimed - The Department Store, Brixton
2024 The Lido Open 2024 - The Lido Stores, Margate (jurors included Vincent Hawkins)
2024 Open About Identity - East Quay (jurors included Alice Workman)
2024 Lick - Safehouse 1
2023 Country Fair - Umbrella Cardiff
2023 with Gaucho Ninja - The Table Hay at ‘& The Chair’
2023 Do Not Swallow - Safehouse 1&2
2023 Summer Art Car Boot Fair - Black Swan Arts
2023 Town House Open - Town House Spitalfields
2023 Mud, for you - The Fitzrovia gallery
2022 Fragility & Materiality - Rabbit Skin Collective at Slade Farm
2021 Lost & Found - Vacant Museum
2021 Big Small Summer Open - Small House Gallery
2021 The World’s Shittest Exhibition - Uncovered Collective
2020 Umbrella Open - Umbrella Cardiff
Press & Publications
The Dodo - Issue #4 The Last Bite - The RCA Student Newspaper - June 2026
Crunch Zine by Fresh Salad 2025
House & Garden February 2021
BBC Radio 4 Four Thought Sept 2016
Bio
Nick Ivins is a painter of wealth at leisure.
He undertook an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2025/26, having previously been educated at Turps Banana Art School, and Canterbury College of Art.
He has worked as an advertising, Getty Images stock and society photographer, is a film and photo shoot location house owner, a co-author, one-off actor, and lapsed Cornish pilot gig crew.
Born in West Kent, he currently lives and works in London, and overlooking the sea at Lyme Bay, Dorset.