NICOLE HEINZEL
CONTACT
Atelierhaus Mengerzeile 1-3 [207]
12435 Berlin
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0)177 600 7476
CV
Education
1997 - '98 Post-Graduate Diploma: Illustration, Kingston University, London,
UK
1988 - '91 Graphic Design + Photography BA (Hons) Duncan of Jordanstone,
Dundee, UK
1987 - '88 College of Commerce, Aberdeen, UK
Shows
2007 A Match Made in Heaven, m3 Kunsthalle, Berlin Germany
2006 Offene Ateliers, m3 Kunsthalle, Berlin Germany
2006 Haussalon und "Heuerig" m3 Kunsthalle, Berlin Germany
1999-06 Mixed exhibitions, inc. AAF Miami, New York, Glasgow,
London, Melbourne, Bristol, Will’s Art, London UK
2005 Handverlesen, Design Mai, Josetti Höfe, Berlin Germany
2005 Spreeblick, Josetti Höfe, Berlin, Germany
1991-05 Mixed exhibitions, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen UK
2003 Paint, Will's Art, London UK
2002 Surface Tourist, Art House, London UK
2001 Our Most Successful Artists, Will's Art, London UK
2001 Emerging Artists, Will's Art, London Uk
2001 The Foundry, London UK
2001 The Horse Hospital, London UK
1997 Strata Gallery, London UK
1996 Aberdeen University UK
Work held in private collections worldwide
THE ARTIST
Nicole Heinzel was born in 1969 in Bengasi, Libya to German
parents. After a spell in Iran (Persia) and Trinidad & Tobago the family
moved to Scotland where they lived for 22 years. Heinzel went to Duncan
of Jordanstone School of Art in Scotland. After seven years living and working
as an artist and designer in London, she moved to Berlin four years ago.
Heinzel has shown work in several galleries in the UK, and has work in private
collections worldwide. She is showing work in progress from several current
projects.
Nicole Heinzel’s work expresses the complex and personal beauty she finds in the apparent simplicity of the line. She is inspired by everyday encounters with repetitive lines or elements in the natural and the man-made environment.
“electricity wires, pylons, string, hair, contour lines on maps,
ferris wheels and rollercoasters, the scribblings of a child, the scratches
and cracks in walls, architectural lines, lightning, seismographs and polygraphs,
the grooves in a record, textiles, the grain of wood, the invisible lines
found in the flights of birds and insects or in paths of commuters at a
train station and how they move and interact within structured spaces……..
for me the line also symbolises the interconnectedness within everything”
Heinzel is first and foremost a painter, however she also produces work
in a variety of other media, including photography, film, sound, sculpture
and drawing. Of all of these photography is arguably the most integral to
her practice, acting both as inspiration and tool, forming an almost symbiotic
relationship with the other mediums – one that is of mutual dependence
and continual exchange. Most often her vision finds resolution in paint.
Here, the lines are scratched repetitively into layers of oil paint using
a variety of different tools including a stanley knife, twigs or palette
knife. The repetitive nature of her creating processes takes the artist
through many stages of being. For Heinzel it is this process which forms
the soul of the work, and connects the simplicity of the line with the complexity
of being. The resultant works are complex webs of lines that simultaneously
reference both their minimalist and expressionist heritage.
WORK
# 2.5 | oil on canvas | 2007 | 1150 x 1150
# 2.10 | oil on canvas | 2007 | 1350 x 1050
# 2.11 - detail | oil on canvas| 2007 | 1800 x 1150
# 2.7 - detail | oil on canvas| 2007 | 1230 x 800
# 2.8 - detail | oil on canvas | 2007 | 890 x 890
Painting | digital drawing | 2007 | 210 x 280
Scrunched | digital drawing | 2007 | 150 x 150