ABOUT

Lorraine Heller-Nicholas is a cross-disciplinary artist who works with photography, drawing, painting, animation, artist books and textiles.

Storytelling is a vehicle for Heller-Nicholas to create affective responses, this is achieved by, incorporating a nostalgic, sometimes kitsch, approach. Time is a key concern to her within the context of narrative and the experience of an artwork. In this way her moving image practice often attempts to speak of a pivotal moment, while the still image elements in her practice often speak of a passage through time. The work is most often positioned in a contradictory realm that is informed on a very material level by the past and the present, but at the same time transcends both. Her more recent work has incorporated a focus on spatial relationships both within an image and in its presentation.

Heller-Nicholas has been exhibiting in Australia and internationally since 2001. Exhibitions include Beyond Boundaries, The University of Melbourne at the Auckland Art Fair (2018) ; Between You and Them: the Identity of Self, Object and Place, ACAF, Shanghai (2016) ; Merged, Amelia Gallery, Gulf Coast State College, Florida (2016) ; Love Triangle, Little Woods Gallery (2015) ; CoupleStalking, c3 Contemporary Artspace (2015). Heller-Nicholas has completed studio residencies in Vermont, USA (2019) ; Ólafsfjörður, Iceland (2015) ; Shanghai, China (2014); Taipei, Taiwan (2007) and Eltham, Australia (2013). She was a founding member of dotmov screen collective and Tape Projects (2004-2008).

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SELECTION OF STILL & MOVING IMAGES