Nic De Jesus is a South African artist, b. 1984, working across drawing, painting, and photography. His practice is rooted in sustained and repeated return to the West Coast of South Africa, a landscape he visits daily, on foot, in the water, and in the studio.

Across oil painting, liquid charcoal on paper, pastel and charcoal drawings, and photographic diptychs, De Jesus employs a process of layering and release in the painted and drawn work. In paired photographs, he holds two moments in correspondence. His four bodies of work each approach the same terrain through different means.

The coast is the site through which he works, and what the work attends to is not the landscape itself but what it opens onto.

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For all further inquiries, please write to nicdejesus@gmail.com

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Selected Solo Exhibition

2015 — Mare Incognitum: Canto I & II, Gallery 40, Brighton, UK

Selected Exhibitions

2014 — Fire in the Cabin (Photographic Portraiture), Draw Brighton Anniversary, Gallery 40, Brighton, UK

2015 — Till Then, edited by Kevin Row (Film Screening), Transizioni International Exhibition of Photographic Film, Bologna, Italy

2016 — Cameron Contemporary Summer Exhibition, Hove, Brighton, UK

2018 — Nitram Charcoal Booth, CreativeWorld, Frankfurt, Germany

2020 — Beyond the Pale (Selected Paintings), Art in the Yard, Franschhoek, South Africa

2024 — Nature vs Nurture (Selected Paintings), Muse Gallery, Franschhoek, South Africa

Residencies

2016/17 — Saltmarsh Farmhouse, UK

Selected Bibliography

2016 — Nitram Charcoal Online Publication, View

2017 — A Light in the Valley (Film), presented by Nitram Charcoal, Directed by Mark Waters - View

2017 — Featured Artist, Landscape Magazine, East Sussex, UK

2018 — Featured Artist, South African Artist Magazine, Issue 30

2019 — Feature artwork, Beginning Drawing Atelier, Juliette Aristides.