#08 | Nell

Nell - the mononymously titled artist - explores a poetic dichotomy of spiritual influences and good old-fashioned rock’n’roll across a variety of mediums including painting, ceramics, sculpture, video and performance. Situated within the parameters of Zen Buddhism, Nell’s work employs a particular vernacular including ghosts, eggs, tears, and lightning bolts to contemplate the binary archetypes of life and death, happiness and sadness, light and dark.

In-conversation with Nell available via Apple Podcasts here or Vimeo below.

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EXHIBITION INFO

NELL
everyday happiness (gold)
2016
gold plated bronze
9 x 13 x 10 cm
Edition of 5 + 2AP

Lightning Bolt
2013
neon 50 x 17 cm Edition of 5 + 2AP

The ghost who walks will never die (sunset #1)
2022
hand blown glass
24 x 19 x 21 cm

above the ground and under the sky, happy days are 7 days a week – TODAY
2010
enamel on NZ kiln dried pine
202.6 x 75.8 cm

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Nell lives and works in Sydney. Nell received her Masters of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 2006. Selected solo exhibitions include WORDS and CROSSES, Ramp Gallery, Waikato Institute of Technology (Hamilton NZ, 2017); NE/LL, Shepparton Art Museum (Victoria, 2016); BLACK'n'WHITE, PS, Project Space (Amsterdam, 2015); Let There Be Robe, Alaska Projects (Sydney, 2013); Hometown girl has wet dream, Maitland Regional Art Gallery (Maitland, 2012); Life and Death, ARTBAR, MCA (Sydney, 2012); Chanting to Amps, Let There Be Robe, MONA FOMA Festival of Music and Art, Salamanca Place, PW1, Theatre Royal and MONA (Hobart, 2012); It's a Long Way to the Top (If you Wanna Rock'n'Roll), MONA FOMA Festival of Music and Art (Sydney, 2011) and The Oracle, Spring/Summer 2011/12 collaboration with Romance Was Born for Australian Fashion Week, Mitchell Library (Sydney, 2011). Selected and recent group exhibitions include Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, 2021); Brown Pots, Shepparton Art Museum (Victoria, 2021); Clay Dynasty, Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, 2021); Looking at Painting, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (Sydney, 2021); Hyper-Aware: 21st Century Highlights from the Collection, HOTA (Queensland, 2021); Just Not Australian, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery NSW, Maitland Regional Art Gallery NSW, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre NSW, NorthSite, Cairns (2021); Full Face: Artists’ Helmets (GOMA, 2020); Just Not Australian, Artspace (Sydney, 2019); From Here to There: Australian art and walking, Lismore Regional Gallery (NSW, 2018); The National: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, 2017); Magic Object, Adelaide Biennial, The Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide, 2016); Sirens (I Heard Voices In The Night), Gertrude Glasshouse (Melbourne, 2016); Transcendence: Nell, Angelica Mesiti, Aura, Satz, Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne, 2014); Wynne Prize, Art Gallery ofNew South Wales (Sydney, 2011); and Soft Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, 2009). Recent awards include UQ National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize 2013 (Winner) and The Woollahra Sculpture Prize, Winner of the People's Choice Award (2001). Nell has been a finalist in The Blake Prize (2011 and 2013), Redlands Westpac Art Prize (2010), The Woollahra Sculpture Prize (2009). Nell was also a Artspace Studio Artist in 2016, and a Carriageworks Clothing Store Studio Artist in 2017. Her work is in the collections of AGNSW, MONA, MCA, UQ Art Museum, Art Gallery of SA, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Artbank, Austcorp Corporate Collection, Sydney, BFG Superannuation Fund, Deutsche Bank, MBF Australia Ltd, Sydney, Allens, Sydney, Credit Suisse, Sydney. Public Commissions include “Made in the Light”, Allens, Deutsche Bank Building, (2012, Sydney) “Let there be Robe” MONA FOMA, MONA (2012, Hobart), “Let Me Put My Love Into You” Deutsche Bank (2007, Sydney).

Nell is represented by STATION Australia.