Blooming Amazing
Please feel free to browse ourBlooming Amazing Exhibition in 2023 displayed at Everard read gallery. More intro to come
Baskloof 2022
Baskloof
Please feel free to browse our Baskloof show from 2022 displayed at Franschhoek Everard read gallery. More intro to come
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Botanical Studies In Bronze And Silver (II)
‘Botanical Studies in Bronze and Silver II’
In this, Nic’s second solo exhibition at Everard Read London, and sixth solo to date, he once again draws attention to the diversity of the Cape Floral Kingdom, the ecological ‘jewel’ of South Africa. In this body of work, beautiful and ephemeral flowering plants such as ericas, are shown alongside a spiny strelitzia and fleshy-leaved Veltheimia bracteata, while the taller the plants of this show, the 1,6 meter Agapanthus and Euryops pectinatus (daisy family) and the towering, almost 2 meter Watsonia tubularis, confront the viewer almost at eye level.
The only non-Fynbos sculpture in this body of work is the extraordinary Clivia miniata, which is endemic to further north in South Africa, from the Eastern Cape to Kwazulu-Natal and up to Mpumalanga. This plant, with its trumpet-shaped flowers, speaks of the world’s ‘love affair’ with South African clivias, which began in the 1800s when specimens where sent back to England from Kwazulu-Natal, an interest which still persists today.
Video by Moja Reeves
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Instalation images by David Owens
Proteaceae 2020
Nic’s fifth solo exhibition, titled ‘Proteaceae’ was held at Everard Read Cape Town in February 2020
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Nic’s fourth solo exhibition was held in April/May 2018 at Everard Read London, introducing his unique work to a new audience.
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The title of Nic’s third solo exhibition, held at Everard Read & Circa (Johannesburg) in late 2017, is attributed to William J. Burchell
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In 2015, Nic worked as Artist in Residence at Tswalu Kalahari, a private game reserve in South Africa's Northern Cape Province.
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In ‘Peninsula’, Bladen focuses on the richness of botanical diversity that surrounds his studio, situated within the heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom
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