EXHIBITIONS
Nicci has exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions at a range of Artist run initiatives, public institutes and galleries across Australia. She has been selected as a finalist in several Arts Prizes, and her work has been collected privately both nationally and internationally.
Compiled is a selected list of exhibitions.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / ARTS PRIZES
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2025 // Finalist National Emerging Art Prize, Garden Gallery, Sydney
Finalist Hazelhurst Arts on Paper award, Hazelhurst Art centre
Finalist Wollongong Art Prize, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
When Huskisson was a village, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Huskisson
Escarpment; Living on the edge, Clifton School of Arts, Clifton
2024 // Finalist National Emerging Art Prize, Garden Gallery, Sydney
Finalist Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown Art Centre, Campbelltown
Finalist Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford
INstaller's Exhibition, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
2023 // Finalist Small Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
Good things in Small packages // Bad News Gallery, Wollongong
Finalist Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown
Finalist National Emerging Art Prize, Michael Reid gallery Art Bar, Pyrmont
Cocoon, 131 Art studios, Wollongong
2022 // Finalist Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown Art Centre, Campbelltown
Finalist The Gallerist Emerging Art Prize // Online
Building Glass Houses // Makespace Collective, Wollongong
Art of food waste// Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong
October group exhibition //Bad News Gallery, Wollongong
2019 // Memory Gardens // Clifton School of the Arts, Coalcliff
2018 // Locals on Board // Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong
Modern Nostalgia // Tortuga Studios, St Peters
Virago// The Chokey studios, Wollongong
Day In, Day Out // Verbsyndicate, Wollongong
Words Spoken// Bike Park Gallery, Port Kembla
Bottleshop// Pretty Good Gallery, Wollongong
Gongcrete Christmas // Pretty Good Gallery, Wollongong
2017 // SPLIT//Clifton School of the Arts, Clifton Moving Mountains
Kindred// Moving Mountains Gallery, Wollongong
Useless Wooden Toys // Howlin Wolf, Wollongong
2016// International Women’s Day “Pledge for Parity”, Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong
Illuminate// Lady Denman Maritime Museum, Huskisson
Finalist All the Light You See// First Place, Boobook, Huskisson
Welcome to the GongCrete Jungle//Moving Mountains Gallery, Wollongong
2015//Tied Together// Art Arena Gallery, Wollongong
2009// Finbalist Maroogal Womens Artprize, Maroogal, Nowra
Books, boxes, collections// Vision and space studio gallery, Austinmer
Cover// University of Wollongong Long Gallery
2008//Little Archies// Shoalhaven Art Gallery, Nowra
Woollamia Women’s exhibition//John and Judy Brown Studio, Woollamia
Members annual show// Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong
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SELECTED SOLO (+DUO)Â EXHIBITIONS
2025// This must be the place, Michael Reid Gallery, Berrima
2024 // Comfort Zone, with Alison Mackay, Shoalhaven Regional Art Gallery, Nowra
The List Goes On...Curio Gallery, Wollongong
2018 // Bougainvillea// Pretty Good Gallery, Wollongong
2017 // Strawberry Boogie March, UOW About Time// Moving Mountains Gallery, Wollongong
2016// Project Crown// Outdoor Gallery, Wollongong Central
Out, Out Brief Candle// Pilgrims café, Huskisson
30x30//Moving Mountains Gallery, Wollongong Pop- up exhibition for Yours and Owls Fringe festival
2015// Art by Nicci Bedson// GPT Group Crown Lane, Wollongong
2014// For Madmen Only//Music Farmers, Wollongong
Fiction // Howlin Wolf, Wollongong
From the Shadows // Rad bar, Wollongong
2009// Conversations with the Self// University of Wollongong main gallery
2008// Unspoken// Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong
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CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
I am currently working in the studio on selective and limited commissions for 2025.
Upcoming:
This Must Be the Place, Michael Reid Gallery Southern Highlands, October 2025
Solo exhibition Wollongong Art Gallery 2026