@Artcons9 | 27 solo exhibitions | 52 group exhibitions | Public Collections AUS, NZ, US, EMEA
Australian artist, Constantine Nicholas’ works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and can be found in many noted collections across Australia and overseas – including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australian National University, Kerry Stokes Collection and BHP Billiton. Many of his works have been selected for major art prizes and his awards include the Australia Council’s, New York studio residency in 1993, and the Gunnery Studio in Sydney, 2007.
Major commissions include the millennium mural for Kerry Stokes’ office in Sydney, 2000 and Suntec City Towers 3 and 4 in Singapore. The artist was born in Perth, Western Australia and lives in Sydney, New South Wales.
What’s your process like?
My series, Stitched Heads explores the figurative line in the tradition of portrait scape but more from an abstract thinking perspective, of how to construct or stitch a head together – without formally resolving a formation or ID. These works are done both as physical pieces on canvas, or hybrid drawing works and/or digital pieces.
Lines Forms experiments with works on paper, photographic and digital works. I love to push the extremes of abstract space, colour, design, illusion and environmental concepts.
What inspires you?
I like to think of each line figuratively as a persona, battling over space, territories with others and the environment. I want to push what these marks and strokes can be and mean. To create an imaginary space where the mind can wander.
What are your long term goals as a creator?
I love creating and developing new and original works. Digital works give me the chance to create works immediately to share online but my aim is to do both digital and physical works for exhibition, and at scale.
Art Collections
Allens Arthur Robinson, Sydney
Art Bank, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australian National University, Canberra
BHP Billiton, Melbourne
DAMzine.xyz (NFT)
Herbert Smith Freehills solicitors, Sydney
Fremantle City Council, Fremantle
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne
Hugh Jamieson Collection
Lowensteins, Sydney
Minter Ellison, Perth
Royal Perth Hospital
SBS Australia, Melbourne
University of Western Australia, Perth
Private Collections
James Wolfensohn Collection, New York
Hugh Jamieson Collection, Sydney
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
Australia, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, USA
Exhibitions
2023 Stitched Heads, Exchange Art
2022 Line Forms Begin, FormFunction.xyz
2022 Art Lines, Concord Library, Sydney
2021 Art Lines, OpenSea Oncyber Gallery
2021 Artwords Selections
2012 – 2019, Artwords Digital Project
2010 In the cloud, Private Show, Melbourne
2008 White Cloud Story, Perth Galleries
2007 In the sky, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2006 a light ozone, SLOT Sydney
2005 Untitled Transactions, Perth Galleries, Perth
2004 polynasia, King Street on Burton Gallery, Sydney
2004 endgame, SLOT, Sydney
2003 Off the Map – Studio Show, Sydney
2002 Black Navigation, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2000 Millenium, Kerry Stokes Offices, Sydney
1998 Delaney Gallery, Perth
1996 Transactions lV, Delaney Gallery, Perth
1995 Foreign, Delaney Gallery, Perth
1995 Crown Land, Parliamentary Grounds, Canberra
1994 Transactions III, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1994 Apply Within, Sherman Galleries Artbox, Sydney
1994 Transactions II, Delaney Gallery, Perth
1993 A New Order, Artspace Gallery, Sydney
1993 Instructions for Seamen, ROM Gallery, Sydney
1992 A Seaman’s Journal, Treasury Rooms, Fremantle Town Hall
1992 A New World..., WINDOW Gallery, Sydney
1992 Philosophical Transactions, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1991 Transactions, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1990 light, PICA Perth Institute of Contemporary Art,
1989 light, EMR Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
2023 CODA #5 – International Digital Gallery
2023 SLOT 20 Years – Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2023 DAMzine No.10 DAMPFP; No.11 DAMreality;
2022 CODA #3 – International Digital Gallery
2022 DAMzine No.4 DAMswap; No.5 DAMremix; No.6 DAMselfie
2022 NFT Expoverse Gallery, Los Angeles 29-31 July
2022 Antipodean Pallette: Art Trail in Brunswich, Melbourne
2011 Angel Hair: Art from the Kerry Stokes collection, Mandurah Arts Centre Gallery, Perth
2010 About Flowers, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2008 Mapping, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2007 Cropped, SLOT Gallery, Sydney
2007 Journey 3, ATG Gallery, Melbourne
2007 The Only Constant, ATG Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery
2006 Macquarie University Year of Physics Art Prize Exhiition, Sydney
2006 Conrad Jupiter’s Art Prize Exhibition, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2005 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery
2005 Summer Show, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2004 Miniatures, Perth Galleries, Perth
2004 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery
2004 SBS Art Award, Federation Square, Melbourne
2004 Australian Multiculturalism in the 21st Century, Manningham Gallery Doncaster
2003 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize Exhibition, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2003 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery
2003 SBS Art Award Exhibition, Federation Square Melbourne
2002 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize Exhibition, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2002 Town of Vincent Art Prize Exhibition,
1998 Artists Against Racism, PICA,
1997 Gold, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
1996 Colonial Post Colonial, Museum of Modern art, Heide
1996 Banquet, Delaney Gallery, Perth
1995 Canberra National Sculpture Forum, Canberra
1995 Generation, Delaney Gallery, Perth
1994 ROM MIX, ROM Gallery, Sydney
1993 Sulman Art Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1993 Contemporary Art Fair, University Drill Hall, Canberra
1992 Artseen, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
1992 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Council Chambers, Sydney
1991 Moet & Chandon Art Prize Exhibition, Touring State Galleries in Australia
1991 Over East, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery UWA, Perth
1991 Microcosm, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1990 Art Dock: Exposition D’Art Contemporain Australien, Noumea
1990 Selected Artists, EMR Gallery, Sydney
1989 Fresh Art, SH Irwin Gallery, Sydney
1989 Relativity, Works Gallery, Sydney
1989 Eastern States/Western States, Beach Gallery, Perth
1988 Moet & Chandon Art Prize Exhibition, Touring State Galleries iin Australia
1988 Four 4, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
1988 No Mans Land, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1987 National Art Award, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra
1987 Salon Coda: The Making of History, Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra
1986 The Scanned Image, Arts Council Gallery, Canberra
Education
1989 Graduate Diploma in Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
1987 Bachelor of Arts (Visual), Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
Awards/Residencies
2007 Armory Studio Residency, Sydney Olympic Park
2004 NSW Ministry Studio Residency, The Gunnery, Sydney
2003 NAVA Marketing Grant Scheme for NSW Artists
1993 Australia Council Studio Residency Grant – Greene Street New York, USA
1992 NAVA Marketing Grant Scheme for NSW Artists
1988 Australia Council VACB, Project Grant, Sydney
1988 Arts Development Grant, Canberra
Commissions
2002 Ruth Levine Design – Northcliffe Apartments, Brisbane
1999 Kerry Stokes Millennium Mural & Invitations, Sydney
1998 Duxton Hotel, Perth
1997 Suntec City, Towers 1 & 2, Singapore
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