ARTIST STATEMENT
"In landscapes, one is
confronted with not only physical forms, but also with the underlying
spiritual content. There is here a structure that underpins all creation.
Quite rightly, we’re obsessed with the need to understand nature
and to transcend its essential qualities. We’re searching for clarity
and comprehension of what we see – we want to understand the law
that governs the physical and spiritual in nature.
It’s not enough to simply describe what we see. One has to recreate
the landscape in painterly form by simplifying and accentuating so that
we can understand the truth and tensions that exist therein. In combining
linear and painterly marks I’m attempting to recreate the organic
nature of forms.
I find it’s just as important what I choose to leave out of my picture,
as what I include, in order to achieve the cohesion and to stress the
rhythms that are fundamental in nature."
-Nina Ryan 2008
EXHIBITIONS
2008: Jackman Gallery, St Kilda
2008: Selected for Williamstown Festival Art Prize
2007: Selected for ANL Maritime Art Prize
2007: Jackman Gallery, St Kilda
2006: Eastgate & Holz (group)
2005: Eastgate & Holz
2005: Gallery New Quay (group)
2004: Catherine Asquith Gallery, Flinders Street, Melbourne
2003: Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery- Portrait Prize
2002: Jackman Gallery, St Kilda
2002: Maroondah Federation Gallery, Ringwood
2001: Wyndham Cultural Centre Prize
2001: “50 Most Collectable Artist” Goya Gallery, Melbourne
2001: Goya Gallery, Melbourne
2000: “Goya Collection” Goya Gallery, Melbourne
2000: Goya Gallery, Melbourne
1993: Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Southgate, Melbourne
1991: Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne
1990: Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne
1988: Graduate Diploma Students R.M.I.T. Faculty Gallery
1986: Graduate Students R.M.I.T. Faculty Gallery
1985: R.M.I.T. Students Exhibition, Victorian Regional Art Colleges
COLLECTIONS
Art Bank
Western Mining Corporation
Private Collections in Victoria, Western Australia, Queensland & Scotland
COMMISSIONS
2004 Transfleet Pty Ltd, Melbourne
2004 Transfleet Pty Ltd, Melbourne
2004 Chase Pulp & Paper International Pty Ltd, Sydney
2002 Melbourne Port Corporation
STORM
41cm x 51cm
oil on canvas
FADING LIGHT
93cm x 110cm
oil on canvas
LYSTERFIELD #2
95cm x 109cm
oil on canvas
EASTWARD
33cm x 29cm
oil on canvas
STREAM
61cm x 61cm
oil on canvas
PYLON
61cm x 61cm
oil on canvas
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