"Nicole Bartos’ "Linking Space to Channel Love and Warm Hearts"... Her collage of airmail letters - one mysteriously singed - exactly lives up to her description, and is a touching display of emotions we all share, but are often kept secret.” (Review of “Migration” exhibition by Adam Ford, 2009)
(http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/misc/reviews/migration.php; http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/phprint.php)

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"The work of Nicole Bartos is imbued with a greater poignancy. It contains the yearning of the exile and also deals with the issue of memory. Her aide memoires: fragments of photograph, pottery, Romanian stamps, faded flowers, envelopes… are accentuated by the use of pins which not only give rise to the idea of pinning things down in memory but also evoke pain - each pin producing its own shadow. There’s the paranoia of flight and discovery in her use of shredded documents too. But the factor that reinforces the poignancy is the use of wax in these mixed media works. It has domestic and ecclesiastical connotations; it can embed and conceal and reveal objects but is also a medium easily changed by circumstances. Objects, the means of communication, people, societies - all can easily melt away in reality as well as in memory.” (Review of “Migration” by Sandra Gibson, 2009)
http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/misc/reviews/migration.php; http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/phprint.php

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http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-cultura-4895432-mai-multi-artisti-romani-expun-capitala-culturala-europeana.htm ("Meet me at Sunset", 2008)

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"I like your ethos as a professional practitioner in curating and creatively, as
I have come to realise you are highly focused, disciplined and bring a lot to
the arts in this city. Those professional qualities I admire implicitly and
there needs to be more individuals such as yourself. The programme what you did
for Biennial 2006 ("Fire &Eurhythmy") was duly noted and we think you did a wonderful job with this.
Anyway, I will be in touch quite soon to rearrange to meet up and to propose to
you a possible project." (Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, (UK Projects Co-ordinator/Associate Artist)
Transvoyeur; www.transvoyeur.com; http://www.myspace.com/transvoyeuruk))
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http://showmercy.co.uk/bracketthis/BT3_catalogue.pdf

http://showmercy.co.uk/bracketthis/

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"Living with art and Energy" 2007

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Slight corrections regarding accuracy of this article above: "I was an artist (studied arts at Ioan Andreescu Viasual Arts Academy, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and just fnished my postgraduate studies (MA), before coming to UK. I worked a lab assisstant part time to support my studies".

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Regarding "Aesthesis &Persona" show, 2005: http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/misc/reviews/aesthesis.htm

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