Born in the UK, Nicholls studied painting at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College, London. Selected exhibitions include 'On Touch', a solo show at Bobinska Brownlee, London; 'between parts undone' at studio1.1, Shoreditch;  The Performativity of Painting at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich; the Ruth Borchard Prize at Piano Nobile; The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Creative London, at Space_K, Gwacheon in Korea and Jerwood Contemporary Painters.

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