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Structure into Pink and Blue – Work in Progress
I am behind on posting what I’ve been working on. That never happens. Here are some photographs of a work in progress. Working again in a hallway; there is just something about those spaces....
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Structure into Pink and Blue is complete
Installations are hard to photograph. I always find it tough. Straight lines warp through the camera, light is hard to capture (for the novice photographer), and you can’t shoot around corners or...
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Blue Cubed
This work was born out of a series of drawings and paintings on paper and I wanted to see them in large scale. Often when working on paper or sketching, the works don’t feel complete until I can walk...
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Graduate Exhibition – Documentation
After all the hard slog preparing, the Graduate Exhibition was a great success. We had a great opening night, standing room only in many areas of the buildings. Approx. 750 people responded with an...
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Work in Progress – Art in Public Places
I’m currently in the thick of installing work for the Hobsons Bay City Council initiative, Art in Public Places. Three sites and I have two days left(!). The first site, is at Mason St Newport. And...
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Work in Progress – Art in Public Places – Mason Street
Ah public art. Everyone has an opinion, and I have inserted myself into that scene with eyes somewhat open, knowing what I might find there, but hopeful that the experience would be overall good....
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Christening My Newish Studio – Experiment
I want to share with you some play from my first few weeks in this, my new studio (now more newish than new). It’s a good space, reasonable light, quite a decent size, compared to what I’ve had before...
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Legal Tagging and the Body Signature
Recently, I discovered a local ‘Urban Art Supplier’, a phrase I had never actually contemplated. How very closed minded of me. Yet, it is true. The establishment, with a secure entrance (they have...
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Cornered Gesture
Cornered Gesture (c) 2013 Naomi Nicholls Acrylic on wall/floor In this work from a few weeks ago, I placed myself into the corner of the room and gestured around corners. Down wall and onto the floor...
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Paint and Vinyl, Together Again
“Painting onto vinyl. Yes, that’s what I’m doing.” She utters inwardly, in relief! Something about the middle of the year sends me for a bit of a tailspin in my practice. I’m not sure if it’s just a...
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Installing – Interchange: We’re Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue at Seventh ARI
We’re Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue is a collaborative project Polly Hollyoak and myself have been planning for a few months now. We knew we wanted to paint and installation together and formulated a...
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Interchange: We’re Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue – Documentation
Here is the finished product following days of painting. Visit the videos tab to see a timelapse of our painting efforts. Interchange: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue, (c)2013 Naomi Nicholls...
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Homemade Festival 2013
The Homemade Festival wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. Dancers/performance artists, visual artists and a photographer came together over the space of about almost a year to develop works for this...
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Fracture I – Major Project
The past month has been full of stuff. I completed my research paper and submitted it, which was to discuss the issues present in my work and situate my work within an historical context. It was...
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Fracture Below – VCA Graduate Exhibition
Fracture Below, (c) 2013 Naomi Nicholls Synthetic Polymer Paint, Vinyl Fracture Below, (c) 2013 Naomi Nicholls Synthetic Polymer Paint, Vinyl The VCA Grad Show took place on in late November. Here are...
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Union House Commission – Work in Progress
I was recently commissioned to create a mural on a disused wall of Union House at the Parkville Campus of Melbourne University. The site featured a deep purple wall and a maroon vinyl seating across...
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One Four Four – The First Three Months
This year I was asked to take part in a project with eleven other artists. Here’s the skinny: ‘Twelve Australian female artists have been invited to participate in onefourfour which sees them create...
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The Brushy Parallel – Work in Progress
An empty wall wasn’t a menacing prospect as I arrived ready to install last Monday morning to install for the Daylesford Group Residency Exhibition, the resultant exhibition from a residency I went on...
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Homemade Festival 2013
The Homemade Festival wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. Dancers/performance artists, visual artists and a photographer came together over the space of about almost a year to develop works for this...
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Christening My Newish Studio – Experiment
I want to share with you some play from my first few weeks in this, my new studio (now more newish than new). It’s a good space, reasonable light, quite a decent size, compared to what I’ve had before...
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