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NINA RYAN
 


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

 
rehgan de mather
stephen evans
rosi griffin
 

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

darren porter
gary rance
dennis ropar
tomek sikora
 


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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