Nicola Singh

Dr Nicola Singh is a British-Punjabi artist, experimental vocalist, researcher and pedagogue, Her work explores the subjective and socially determined complexities between voice and body - and the ways in which sound, language and aesthetics compound/disorient this relationship. 

Selected commissions include Listen Gallery (Glasgow UK), HH Art Spaces (Goa IN), Xarkis Festival (Nicosia CY), Cinenova & CCA (London), La Bonne (Barcelona SP), David Dale Gallery (Glasgow UK), Eastside Projects (Birmingham UK), Hongti Art Centre (Busan SK), Jerwood Visual Arts (London UK) and BALTIC (Newcastle UK). She has been resident artist at Porthmeor Studios (St Ives UK), Hospitalfields House (Arbroath UK) and Art House (Wakefield UK). Her work was acquired by the UK Government Art Collection in 2021. 

Forthcoming projects include a solo exhibition at Cubitt Gallery (London UK), a film commission from pp+a (London UK) and the Adrian Piper Research Fellowship Sept'25 - Sept'26. 

Singh is associate artist with Migrants in Culture and a board member for Ubuntu Women Shelter Glasgow. She is a certificated yoga teacher in the Sivananda lineage. She is currently training in Dhrupad with Pandit Uday Bhawalkar and in sound healing with Svaram Institute.

 

Image credits: Gautam Pemmaraju