constantine nicholas

Works

Works are grouped by series. For availability, prices or studio visits, please enquire.

Random scrubs, days of darkness (2024)

Random scrubs, days of darkness, 2024. Pigment on sandpaper and dismantled garden furniture. 300 x 250 x 100 cm. SLOT Window Gallery, Sydney.

Abstract works on sandpaper and dismantled garden furniture, assembled in situ. The work explores the connection between the drawn image and its source material (garden furniture). Lightness and darkness made physical. Shown at SLOT Window Gallery, Sydney, 18 July to 17 August 2024.

Shades of Lightness (2024)

Shades of Lightness, 2024. Pigment on sandpaper. 250 x 400 cm. Shown in Paper Form, Articulate Project Space, Sydney, 31 August to 22 September 2024.

Lines (2021 to 2023)

Art Lines explores space, digital photography and drawing to create richly coloured abstract line-scapes. The series has been shown in a virtual exhibition at Oncyber Gallery and at Concord Library, Sydney, and selected works are listed on Exchange Art (Lines of Abstraction) and FormFunction.

Lines of white turn shale, 2022. Series: Lines of Abstraction.

Lines of white overcome by reds, yellows & greens, 2022. Acrylic, ink and pen on paper. 30 x 21 cm.

Selected works from the series are available as limited editions (see Editions).

Frankenheads (2022 to 2023)

Works on canvas, board and paper that explore the figurative head as an abstract image, asking where the lines between reality and abstraction start and end. Pigment, acrylic, pen, ink and pastel on canvas, board or paper. Canvas and board works A4, paper works A5. First shown as a digital exhibition of physical works on Exchange Art, July to August 2023.

Installations

Crown Land, 1995. Acrylic paint on grass, 208 First Nations’ place name plaques on acrylic. 40 x 30 m. Canberra National Sculpture Forum, Parliament House grounds, Canberra.

light, EMR Gallery, Sydney, 1989. Includes Ever Ready: coal, batteries, copper wire, approx. 8 x 15 m.

Transactions (1991 to 1996)

Transactions V, 1994.

A series of painted works shown at Garry Anderson Gallery and Artspace, Sydney; Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra; and Delaney Gallery, Perth.

Works on paper (2005 to 2009)

See the works on paper gallery.