Janie Nicoll's work generally takes the form of site-specific installation using multiple digital images, that attempt to be visually engaging in a contentious or ambiguous way. She works with collage techniques, small paintings, and sculptures that involved a process of translation. Digital photography is used as a tool for re-appropriating imagery, using site-specific installation, to fill and work with a space rather than be confined and restricted by the forms of regular photography. Cultural references and signifiers such as lines from songs are used to allow a variety of interpretations, thereby creating an ironic dialogue with the viewer. These works often explore the notion of the social pariah, the vilification of youth, and the fabrication of masculine stereotypes, maladjustment, disillusionment, desire and anger. 

Janie Nicoll is a visual artist based in Glasgow, who originally trained in Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and graduated from the Master of Fine Art course at Glasgow School of Art in 1997. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, most recently in the "Warehouse Weekend", Huddersfield; Streetland Art Festival, Govanhill; "Getting Up -Windows In the City", Inverness Old Town Art Project; Scottish National Portrait Gallery in ‘Rough Cut Nation’; ‘Heavy Influence’, Magazine 09 at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop: Jamie Radcliffe Exhibition at SWG3; ‘Meddle With the Devil’ and ‘Garlands’ at The Park Gallery, Falkirk; Magazine 07, ESW; ‘Associates’ at the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh; ‘The Consequence’ at Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow; the Deviant Arts Festival, Trollhättan, Sweden; Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool; Generator Projects, Dundee; Chapter Gallery, Cardiff; Lowsalt Gallery and EmergeD VSF Gallery, Glasgow; The Waygood Gallery, Newcastle; The Changing Room, Stirling; the Crawford Gallery, Cork and the Künstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany amongst others. Her video works have been shown internationally including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

During 2008 she undertook a year-long SAC pARTners residency in Digital Media at Callendar House, Falkirk in collaboration with Alex Hetherington. Previous residencies have been at Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, USA; Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Neonatal Unit; Yorkhill Hospital for Sick Kids, Glasgow; Chatelherault Country Park, Hamilton; Shining Cliff International Residency for My House Projects, Nottingham; and Generator Projects, Dundee.

She has collaborated with artist Alex Hetherington on a number of performances and curatorial projects including Sh[out] @ GOMA; The Consequence video screenings at Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow, and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop; ‘Deception/Reception’ at Bier Halle Republic, Glasgow; ‘House Lights’ at ESW; the TWINS Calendar Project; “High Rise Cinema” an outdoor video screening; and music and performance events for Big In Falkirk. 

She has regularly written articles for a-n Magazine including exhibitions by Karla Black at Mary Mary; Mark Neville at StreetLevel Photoworks and Renfrew Street Social Club at Lowsalt Gallery.  

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