Warren Nichols

Warren Nichols
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Résumé:

 

Education (Art)

2011          Life drawing classes, Hawthorn. Tutor: Yvonne Audette
2016

2002          Life drawing classes, Hobart. Tutor: Dawn Csutoros

1998          Life drawing classes, Hobart. Tutor: Paul Westbury

1981          Associate Diploma Art, Craft and Design, University of Tasmania
1986        

1975         Adult Education (Painting), Hobart. Tutor: Eileen Brooker

 

Solo Exhibitions

2018       Sky Land Sea   Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn

2016       Western Port   Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn

2014       Western Port II   Mingara Gallery, Cowes

2013       Western Port   Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne

2012       Western Port   Mingara Gallery, Cowes

2010       Snow and Ice   Goulburn Street Gallery, Hobart

2007       Grapes and Vines   Inka Gallery, Hobart

2004       Waterfalls   Inka Gallery, Hobart

2002       Enduring Landscape   Inka Gallery, Hobart

 

Group Exhibitions

2018       Sea, Sky, and Space   Manyung Gallery, Sorrento

2017        Festive   Meeniyan Art Gallery, Meeniyan

2017       Crossing the Bridge:  Recent Work by 6 Phillip Island Artists Meeniyan Art Gallery, Meeniyan

2015        Snow   Red Tree Gallery, Jindivick  

2014        Belle Arti Art Prize   Chapman & Bailey Gallery, Abbotsford
2016            

2014        Junior Arts Festival, Newhaven College, Artist in Residence

2014        Celebrating Westernport & Phillip Island Saraghi Art Space, Cowes

2012        Artists’ Society of Phillip Island annual Easter and Cup Weekend Exhibitions
present   

2011        Hawthorn Studio and Gallery/ Hawthorn Artist Society

2006       Huon Art Exhibitions “en Plein Air”

 

Awards

2017       Best Phillip Island Interpretation, Artists’ Society of Phillip Island Cup Weekend Exhibition

2017       Highly Commended, Best Painting, Artists’ Society of Phillip Island Easter Exhibition

2015       Best Art Work, Open Section, RSL Phillip Island Spirit of ANZAC Exhibition

2015       Joint Winner, Themed Award: A Sense of Place, Artists’ Society of Phillip Island Easter Exhibition

2013       Best Abstract, Artists’ Society of Phillip Island Cup Weekend Exhibition

 

Memberships

2012-present     Member, Artists’ Society of Phillip Island 

 Member, Hawthorn Artist Society

Reviews

Andersch, Joerg   Gallery Watch, The Mercury, Hobart, 17th November 2007

Andersch, Joerg   Gallery Watch, The Mercury, Hobart, 23rd November 2002

Statement:

 

A long held interest in, and active participation within the landscape has been central to my art practice.

My works are concerned, in most instances, with the immediacy, the feeling of being within a landscape.  That landscape may be the natural wilderness for which Tasmania is much celebrated, the four seasons as exemplified by a vineyard, snow and ice as experienced in the alpine regions, and more recently the changing mood and rhythm of the sea as observed in Western Port, Victoria.

In having a civil engineering and quality management background, it is not surprising that the approach taken to my painting has primarily been one of process – a process of exploring and applying transparent glazes over a pure white, textured base. This considered and systematic approach allows one to observe and arrive at tones and depth of colour not necessarily experienced by a single, direct application of paint.

Although earlier works were of a more expressionist composition, the Snow and Ice series and recent Western Port works reflect a more minimalist approach whereby the primary interest is in the effect of changing light conditions within a snow or sea environment. 

Snow is not white, but rather reflects the ever changing sky and surrounds.  In the distance we see varying shades of cool colours - grey, blue/ grey, and turquoise - that are interspersed with patches of ochre and umber coloured rock formations.  At our feet we stand in snow that reflects an array of blue, violet, and grey colour, which is capped with light catching, glistening ice.  Similarly, the sea reflects the changing sky, but unlike snow within a more static landscape, the sea’s form is never constant. The sea constantly changes colour, varying from turquoise to a myriad of blue combinations and variations of grey.  Waves, small or turbulent, provide a white relief, a flash of movement.

It is this translucency and transition in colour, as dictated by the changing sky and weather patterns over the white surface of snow, or transparency of water, that holds my interest and which I continue to explore in my work.

Associated Exhibitions

Sea, Sky, and Space
A Group Exhibition
13 January - 24 January, 2018
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