Galaxy Ballroom

The House and the Forest

The House and the Forest

‘Weaving the Thread’, Nora & Lara Castro, Janice McNab, Catalina Obrador & Jennifer Tee.
Curated by Cristina Anglada. Galeria Fermay, Palma, from September 19, 2026.

’Rift’ (2022) now in the permanent collection of National Galleries Scotland: Modern One, Edinburgh

’The Beauty of Everyday Life’ published in Forms of Life – Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondriaan, Tate Publications

Janice McNab
— Slits and a Skull

Paper Cosmos

D.I.Y.

The Ice Cream Paintings

The Chocolate Box Paintings

Tanks and Chairs

Curtain and Stage

The Isolation Paintings

The Isolation Paintings
— The Greenock Factory Project

A and Z, an Open Letter Project.

Hoogtij Talkshow. Marie Jeanne de Rooij in conversation with Janice McNab. Watch the video on Vimeo.

Publications

Janice McNab - Exhibition publication: ‘The House and the Fores’.

Exhibition publication: ‘The House and the Forest’. Curator Janice McNab, essays Janice McNab & Fernando Goméz de la Cuesta, 116 pp, Ajuntament de Palma, 2026.

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Janice McNab - Monograph: ‘Galaxy Ballroom – a Dance with Hilma af Klint’.

Monograph: ‘Galaxy Ballroom — a Dance with Hilma af Klint’. Editor Eleonoor Jap Sam, 102 pp, Jap Sam Books, 2024.

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Janice McNab - Essay: The Beauty of Everyday Life’ in ‘Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life’.

Essay: ‘Look, the Trees’ in "Lois Dodd’. Editor Louise Henriksen, 240pp, Hannibal Books, 2025

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Janice McNab - Essay: The Beauty of Everyday Life’ in ‘Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life’.

Essay: ‘The Beauty of Everyday Life’ in ‘Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life’. Editors: Briony Fer, Nabila Abdel Nabi and Laura Stamps, 240pp, Tate Publications, 2023

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Janice McNab - Essay: ‘Girl in Café, 1975 in Alice Neel, The Subject and Me’.

Essay: ‘Girl in Café, 1975’ in ‘Alice Neel, The Subject and Me’. Editor: Pat Fisher, 64pp, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, 2016

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Janice McNab - Essay: ‘Lands of the Interior’, in ’Battleground,’ a monograph on Korean artist Haevan Lee.

Essay: ‘Lands of the Interior’, in ’Battleground’, a monograph on Korean artist Haevan Lee. Editor: Antonio Noh, Arts Council of Korea, 2024

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Janice McNab -Essay: ‘Arms are for Linking’ in ‘Peace Camp’, a monograph on artist Jemima Brown.

Essay: ‘Arms are for Linking’ in ‘Peace Camp’, a monograph on artist Jemima Brown, marking the 40th Anniversary of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. Editor Ken Pratt, 136pp West Berkshire Museum, 2022

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Janice McNab - Essay: ‘Louise Bourgeois, The Construction of Mother’, in ‘Surrealism & The Sacred’, RS Review edition marking centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto. Editors: Jeremy Biles and Jesse Bransford, 740pp, Rice University, Houston, 2023

Essay: ‘Louise Bourgeois, The Construction of Mother’, in ‘Surrealism & The Sacred’, RS Review edition marking centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto. Editors: Jeremy Biles and Jesse Bransford, 740pp, Rice University, Houston, 2023

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Janice McNab - Essay: ‘Our Spectral Gardens, on Hilma af Klint today’ in Research in Arts and Education, Vol 1, 2024.

Essay: ‘Our Spectral Gardens, on Hilma af Klint today’ in Research in Arts and Education, Vol 1, 2024. Editor: Juuso Tervo, Aalto University, Helsinki, 2024

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Janice McNab - Doctoral research: ‘The Ghost Artist: Tracing spectral embodiment as aesthetic resistance, in the work of women artists over the last 250 years.’ Author: Janice McNab. 264pp. Design: Mind Design, Amsterdam.’

Doctoral research: ‘The Ghost Artist: Tracing spectral embodiment as aesthetic resistance, in the work of women artists over the last 250 years.’ Author: Janice McNab. 264pp. Design: Mind Design, Amsterdam.

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Janice McNab is a Scottish-Dutch artist and writer. She grew up in the Scottish Highlands and studied at Glasgow School of Art and The University of Amsterdam. She was a 2022 Fellow of The Women's International Study Centre in Santa Fe and is Head of MA Artistic Research at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

The twin pressures that drive McNab’s work are feminism and climate concern, and they have woven through her work for over twenty-five years. Her paintings are known for their surreal representations of the fabric of everyday life – overconsumption and ecological decline seen as forces that impact and re-make our own bodies as well as surrounding life. She develops her paintings in groups, and her research-based approach has led to worlds that are modelled out of single-use plastics, broken aeroplane chairs, melting ice and, most recently, in the creation of fragile landscapes, drawn from the folds of an old scarf. McNab also writes, often on the work of other women artists. She has a particular interest in absence, in those who are not heard and that which is not seen.

Janice McNab is represented by Galeria Fermay, Palma de Mallorca.

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