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![Grief]( "Grief")
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![Galaxy Ballroom]( "Galaxy Ballroom")
infoGaleria Fermay, Palma de Mallorca
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![Solo exhibition 'Galaxy Ballroom']( "Solo exhibition 'Galaxy Ballroom'")
infoGaleria Fermay, Palma de Mallorca
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![The Shadow of Birds]( "The Shadow of Birds")
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![The Shadow of an Animal]( "The Shadow of an Animal")
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![Night]( "Night")
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![Rift]( "Rift")
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![How Deep is your Love?]( "How Deep is your Love?")
infoLarge oil painting
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![Slits and a Skull]( "Slits and a Skull")
infoA diptych self portrait, re-imagined through still life images of fish and ice cream
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![The Days of our Lives]( "The Days of our Lives")
infoFrom the series: The Ice Cream Paintings
My paintings explore the meeting point of personal life choices and the wider politics of climate breakdown
key words: painting, feminism, ecology, body, artistic research, still-life, landscape, Hilma af Klint
Websites
website
www.janicemcnab.comGallery
www.galeriafermay.com/enSocial media
Platform
academia.edu
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2020 - 2022post doctoral artistic research Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten
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2014 - 2019PhD Art History, from Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis University of Amsterdam diploma
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1996 - 1996MFA Fine Art Hunter College for the Arts, New York
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1995 - 1997MFA Fine Art Glasgow School of Art diploma
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1982 - 1987BA Painting Edinburgh College of Art diploma
exhibitions
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2025Permanent collection Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, United Kingdom Rift 2024 displayed as part of the permanent collection. Group
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2024Galaxy Ballroom Galeria Fermay Palma de Mallorca, Spain Fragile landscapes painted from the folds of an old scarf. These are inhabited by the shadows of animals and birds. www.galeriafermay.com/en/programme/15/galaxy-ballroom-nit-de-lart Solo
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2023True North Galeria Fermay Palma de Mallorca, Spain Themed exhibition on historic ties between Spain and northern Europe. Curated by Ken Pratt www.truenorthproject.org/ Group
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2023Summer Maurits van de Laar The Hague, Netherlands Curated exhibition with French artist Arthur Cordier mauritsvandelaar.nl/en/exhibition/exhibition-archive/ Group
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2023Our Spectral Gardens Gallery Maurits van de Laar The Hague, Netherlands Exhibition of paintings series Our Spectral Gardens, along with work by Frank van der Broek mauritsvandelaar.nl/en/our-spectral-gardens-janice-mc-nab-frank-van-den-broeck/ Duo
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2022Scottish Women Artists, Transforming Tradition The Sainsbury Centre Norwich, United Kingdom Historical exhibition curated by the Sainsbury Art Centre. Group
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2022Here We Go Galeria Fermay Palma de Mallorca, Spain Gallery artists www.galeriafermay.com/en/programme/2/here-we-go Group
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2021Open Letter Project Page Not Found the Hague, Netherlands An open letter to the city of The Hague during lockdown, displayed as vinyl letters in bookshop window, and as a longer online letter sent out by the bookshop. page-not-found.nl/ Solo
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2021A New World Stroom The Hague, Netherlands A curated exhibition tied to experience of the Covid pandemic Group
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2021Unity De School Amsterdam, Netherlands Curated by Constance van Berckel artplugged.co.uk/unity-duality-trinity/ Group
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2020Janice McNab: Slits and a Skull Bradwolff Projects Amsterdam, Netherlands Exhibition focussed on a diptych self portrait, Slits and a Skull, an image of the self reduced to sex and death by pandemic isolation www.bradwolffprojects.nl/en/exhibition/slits-and-a-skull/ Solo
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2015Undone Bradwolff Projects Amsterdam, Netherlands Paintings of women's bodies re-imagined as either massive melting ice-cream forms, or as household parts held together in shoddy repairs. www.bradwolffprojects.nl/ Solo
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2015Still Life, Ambiguous Practices University of Aberystwyth Museum and Art Gallery Aberystwyth, United Kingdom Group show of recent developments in still life painting. Extensive catalogue. Group
International exchanges/Residencies
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2022WISC Santa Fe Santa Fe, United States Fellow, The Women's International Study Centre www.womensinternationalstudycenter.org/
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2021California Institute of the Arts Los Angeles, United States Paul Brach invited artist to Cal-Arts calarts.edu/
Sales/Works in collections
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2025Rift Scottish National Gallery Edinburgh, Verenigd Koninkrijk Large painting from the series: Galaxy Ballroom.
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2015Memoryland Lisse Art Museum Lisse, Nederland Painting, ice cream, still life, climate change, domestic psychological feminism
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2011The Philosopher's Ridge The Fleming Collection London, Verenigd Koninkrijk Painting landscape volcano psychological
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2009The Chocolate Box Paintings The Albertina Vienna, Oostenrijk Painting still life landscape climate change domestic chocolate box psychological feminism
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2008The Chocolate Box Paintings The Royal Bank of Scotland Edinburgh Painting, landscape, still life climate change domestic chocolate box psychological feminism
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2007The Chocolate Box Paintings The Fleming Collection London Painting, landscape, still life climate change domestic chocolate box psychological feminism
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2006Chairs, 3 City of Edinburgh Council Edinburgh, Verenigd Koninkrijk Painting, still life, 9/11, psychological
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2000Van, The Chemical Sensitivity Project Perth Art Gallery and Museum Perth, Verenigd Koninkrijk Painting, documentary, American Airstream pollution women feminism
Publications
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2024Galaxy Ballroom, a Dance with Hilma af Klint Monograph Jap Sam Books, Heijningen Janice McNab Netherlands www.japsambooks.nl/products/galaxy-ballroom In Galaxy Ballroom, Scottish/ Dutch artist and writer Janice McNab traces the influence of the imaginary kurbits flower in The Ten Largest (1907), a breakthrough work of early Modernism by Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. These paintings were barely known until recently and as she rummages rural archives for more information, McNab is also thinking about her own past. Moving between now and then, she responds to af Klint with a new set of paintings and an exploration of the way the climate emergency is producing new insights into the art of the past.
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2023Forms of Life, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian tate publishi Tate Modern London www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/hilma-af-klint-piet-mondrian essay in Tate Modern catalogue
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2021Peace Camp Book Jemima Brown, Janice McNab et al West Berkshire , United Kingdom www.jemimabrown.com/peace-camp My essay, Arms are for Linking, was published in this monograph on the work of British artist Jemima Brown
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2015Aberdeen Art Gallery Book University of Aberystwyth Frances Woodley Aberystwyth, United Kingdom issuu.com/a1design/docs/woodley_aber_2-15_cat_all_issuu_lor A Book of Correspondence
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2013Nature Morte, Contemporary Artists reinvigorate the Still Life Book Thames and Hudson Michael Petry London, United Kingdom thamesandhudson.com/nature-morte-1st-pb-9780500292235 Large format publication on Still Life Art Practices
reviews
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2021Hoogtij online interview Website MARIE JEANNE VAN ROOIJ The Hague, Netherlands vimeo.com/461803373 Online interview for Hoogtij, A city-wide art weekend
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2020North Sea Neighbours Magazine Arnoud Breitbarth Amsterdam, Netherlands www.netherlandsworldwide.nl/latest/news/2020/01/14/north-sea-neighbours-magazine-celebrates-nl-uk-cultural-ties Interview in a Dutch Embassy Publication on art and cultural relations between the UK and NL
Awards and grants
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2019PhD Finishing fellowship University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at University of Amsterdam: doctoral fellowship
Representation
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Secondary art-related activities
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2018 - 2025Chair, 1646 Advisory Board
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2015 - --Head, M.A. Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague On-going
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2009 - 2015Co-editor, If I Can't Dance Publications, Amsterdam
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2008 - 2009Mentor, Mr Miyagi Young Curator Programme, MAMA, Rotterdam
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2006 - 2009Co-curator, ArtisdenBosch