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Nerea Martinez de Lecea
United Kingdom
Profile Information:
- What I do:
- interdisciplinary artist working in photography, video, installation, mulitmedia and drawing.
- A little more about me:
- Winner of The Gold Medal for Fine Art, National Eisteddfod of Wales, 2018.
My work has been exhibited/screened internationally in galleries and cinemas including: the Saatchi Gallery; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Arnolfini; Chapter; Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre; Singapore Art Museum; and Somerset House, and at festivals including: Edinburgh; Paris; Toronto; Brighton; Varna; Monaco; and Beirut.
Recent work
In 2012 I created the video installation 'We Are Still Here', commissioned by artist Marc Rees as part of Adain Avion, Wales’ major contribution to the UK-wide project Artists Taking the Lead, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival.
Press for We Are Still Here:
“eerie and potent” – the Times
“[I] was immediately sidetracked by an incredible video art installation, something I can honestly say has never to me happened before”. – BBC Wales
In 2010 I won the Award for Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. Members of the selection panel praised the “power” and “universality” of the work. My work has also been featured on UK television channels BBC2 and S4C, where critics said “It was very striking and honest…it had fantastic aesthetics.”
My work has been featured in publications in the UK and USA. In 2010, I was named as one of ‘Fifty Exceptional Photographers’ by Artists Wanted, New York. In 2011 I made the Professional Shortlist in the Sony World Photography Awards.
I collaborate with artist Michele Woodey as Found&Lost. - Location:
- South Wales
- Projects I’m working on:
- Solo show, TEN. (2019)
Gold Medal for Fine Art, National Eisteddfod of Wales, 2018
Gallery artist with TEN. (Cardiff, UK) 2017
Winner of MADE Summer Open Exhibition 2016 prize
'Beyond Likeness...using the medium of painting to rediscover the meaning of portraiture'.Cardiff MADE, April 2017
'If you are good enough they will love you', solo exhibition at Arthouse/Ty Celf, Aberystwyth, Feb-March 2017
Cardiff MADE Summer Open Exhibition 2016
Feature in CCQ Magazine Issue 9 - https://issuu.com/ccqmag/docs/ccq9 (pg94 onwards)
Programme artwork for Liz Aggiss' 'Slap & Tickle', BDE 2016
'Llywelyn' (video installation) blinc Digital Arts Festival, Conwy 2015
Selected to exhibit at the National Eisteddfod 2015
Found&Lost - https://www.foundandlost.info
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nereacantnot/
Found&Lost @ Art Basel Miami, 2014.
'The Ballad of Ivor Jones, part two', Found&Lost, Toronto.
Selected for WalesLab 2013/2014,'The Ballad of Ivor Jones, part one', collaborating with Michele Woodey as Found&Lost.
Artwork for Raw Material: Llareggub Revisited, NTW 2014 - Personal Website/CV:
- http://icantnot.com
Catherine Dyson
Hi Nerea
I love the image on your last blog post. I'm struck again by how much common ground there is between your project and mine. Great BBC feature too!
Catherine x
Mar 5, 2014
Catherine Dyson
Thanks Nerea, I am really hoping to come to your sharing, unfortunately it clashes with something but am trying to rearrange. Also thanks for the link to 'Never Let Me Go', I had kind of forgotten the film but I really see what you mean about the atmosphere. Hope everything is going well with your project and hopefully see you on 27th x
Mar 16, 2014
Catherine Dyson
Yeah I have seen Ratcatcher - loved it. We are definitely on the same wavelength with this! Will hopefully have something to send you after weekend x
Mar 13, 2015