Nicole Banton (she/her) is a visual artist and printmaker. She received a BFAH in visual art from Queen’s University, and an MFA in visual art from the University of Regina. She recently exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at the Fifth Parallel Gallery in 2024, and her work has been included in various group exhibitions including “Print Pulse 30: NUPE Exhibition” at Union Gallery, and “Echoes from this Land” at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery. From 2023 to 2024 her research and creation projects were supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Banton predominantly creates text-based silkscreen prints and installations that incorporate layers of fonts, handwriting, found text, autographic strikethroughs, and mark-making. She uses handwriting to contemplate ideas of intimacy, authenticity, and labour, as well as challenge these notions by incorporating handwriting that is not actually handwritten, but instead, a printed re-creation. Her work also has strong autobiographical tendencies and explores concepts of loneliness and longing as an aesthetic strategy for artistic experimentation and self-reflection.

For inquiries email contact@nicolebanton.com