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Nicola Triscott

Director

Nicola Triscott is a cultural producer and writer, specializing in the intersections between art, science, technology and society. She is the founder and Director of The Arts Catalyst, one of the UK’s most distinctive arts organizations, distinguished by ambitious artists’ commissions that experimentally and critically engage with science. She has commissioned and curated many artists’ projects and exhibitions, and lectures and publishes internationally. Nicola studied physics at Imperial and geography at UCL and SOAS In 2007, she was awarded a Clore Leadership Fellowship. From 2007-9 she was Visiting Researcher at London South Bank University. She is also the founder of Catalyst Rwanda, working with vulnerable young people and emerging artists in Rwanda. 

Nicola can be contacted at director (at) artscatalyst (dot) org

Nicola's personal blog here

Link to an interview Nicola gave to physics.org in 2011

Papers & Articles

Nicola Triscott’s downloads

• Performative Science: The case of Critical Art Ensemble, Triscott, N, in Interfaces of Performance, ed. Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Janis Jefferies and Rachel Zerihan, Ashgate, Forthcoming 2009
• Once Upon a Space Age: How the dream was lost (and how we get it back again), Triscott, N, in Human Futures: art in an age of uncertainty, ed. Dr Andy Miah, FACT & Liverpool University Press, October 2008
• A Curator-Diplomat in the Space Between, Triscott, N, in Axis Dialogue: the curating issue, May 2008 to July 2008
• Instruments and Spaces of Curation: artists in the polar regions, Triscott, N, in Engage: the international journal of visual art and gallery education, ed. Karen Raney, Issue 21, Art and Climate Change, Spring 2008
• An Itinerant, a Messenger and an Explorer: the work of Brandon Ballengée, Triscott, N, in Engage: the international journal of visual art and gallery education, ed. Karen Raney, Issue 21, Art and Climate Change, Spring 2008
• The Frontiers of Investigation, Triscott, N, presented at the Mutamorphosis conference, November 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

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