Andrew Nicholls
Andrew Nicholls is an Australian/British artist, writer, and curator whose practice engages with the sentimental, camp, and other historically-marginalised aesthetics, and traces the historical recurrence of particular aesthetic motifs.
While primarily drawing-based, his practice also incorporates ceramics, photography, installation, performance, and filmmaking. He particularly draws inspiration from heritage sites and museum collections, and has coordinated and participated in residencies at locations including Greenough Hamlet (Australia’s third-most-significant heritage site), Spode China (at that time the UK’s longest-running ceramics factory still based in its original location), Midland Railway Workshops (the southern hemisphere’s most intact remaining Edwardian industrial site), the Freud Museum London (family home of the founder of psychoanalysis), and the Royal Pavilion, Brighton (George IV's seaside pleasure palace). In 2015 he was allowed exclusive access to photograph Donatello's David, by the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, as part of a body of work investigating aesthetic legacies of the Grand Tour, developed via a Fellowship from the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts.
Nicholls has exhibited across Australia, Southeast Asia, Italy and the United Kingdom, including solo exhibitions in Perth, Canberra and Sydney, Australia, and Plymouth, England. He has been the recipient of two Creative Development Fellowships from the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts, and undertaken commissions for several organisations in Australia and the United States, most recently a $250,000 ceiling mural for the City of Perth Library, and major commissioned drawings for Artbank, and Curtin University. From 2018-2019 his solo exhibition, Hyperkulturemia showed at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Nicholls has curated projects for organisations including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Object Galleries Sydney, and has written for all of Australia’s major national arts publications. His work is represented in collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Brookfield Multiplex, the City of Perth, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University (with Sandra Black), the Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings, and Murdoch University. He shows with Turner Galleries, Perth.
While primarily drawing-based, his practice also incorporates ceramics, photography, installation, performance, and filmmaking. He particularly draws inspiration from heritage sites and museum collections, and has coordinated and participated in residencies at locations including Greenough Hamlet (Australia’s third-most-significant heritage site), Spode China (at that time the UK’s longest-running ceramics factory still based in its original location), Midland Railway Workshops (the southern hemisphere’s most intact remaining Edwardian industrial site), the Freud Museum London (family home of the founder of psychoanalysis), and the Royal Pavilion, Brighton (George IV's seaside pleasure palace). In 2015 he was allowed exclusive access to photograph Donatello's David, by the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, as part of a body of work investigating aesthetic legacies of the Grand Tour, developed via a Fellowship from the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts.
Nicholls has exhibited across Australia, Southeast Asia, Italy and the United Kingdom, including solo exhibitions in Perth, Canberra and Sydney, Australia, and Plymouth, England. He has been the recipient of two Creative Development Fellowships from the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts, and undertaken commissions for several organisations in Australia and the United States, most recently a $250,000 ceiling mural for the City of Perth Library, and major commissioned drawings for Artbank, and Curtin University. From 2018-2019 his solo exhibition, Hyperkulturemia showed at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Nicholls has curated projects for organisations including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Object Galleries Sydney, and has written for all of Australia’s major national arts publications. His work is represented in collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Brookfield Multiplex, the City of Perth, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University (with Sandra Black), the Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings, and Murdoch University. He shows with Turner Galleries, Perth.