Janie Nicoll is a visual artist based in Glasgow, with a studio in the Briggait. She originally trained in Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and graduated from the Master of Fine Art course at Glasgow School of Art in 1997. Exhibitions include Warehouse Weekend, Huddersfield; Rough Cut Nation at SNPG, Edinburgh; the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh; Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow; the Deviant Arts Festival, Trollhättan, Sweden; Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool; Generator Projects, Dundee; Chapter Gallery, Cardiff; Lowsalt Gallery Glasgow; The Waygood Gallery, Newcastle; The Changing Room, Stirling; and the Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany. Her video works have been shown internationally including South America and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Later in the year she will also be showcasing new works in a solo exhibition using the two glass box spaces at the Briggait. In January she will be undertaking a Creative Lab Residency at CCA, Glasgow.

Nicoll's artworks often take the form of site-specific installations, using assemblage and ‘collage techniques’, to re-appropriate sub-cultural references and signifiers within a process of translation. These works often reference musical genres, illicit recreational activities and the subversive debris left behind, using manipulation of scale and context, to create an ironic dialogue with the viewer.

Recent works explore imagery connected to the urban landscape, notions of masculinity, fraternity and rebellion. These works are often assembled from easily accessible materials, and have taken the form of banners that reinterpret Northern Soul insignia (“Keep the Faith”, and ”The Torch”), a huge gold ring (“Fake Gold Ring”) or territorial markings of gangs.