Nadine Christensen

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2020 House Work, Queen Adelaide Club, Adelaide 2018 The Long Echo, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne 2016 Nadine Christensen, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide 2015 Materials, CAVES, Melbourne 2014 Nadine Christensen, STATION, Melbourne 2012 Nadine Christensen, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide 2010 Signals and Decoys, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide 2009 Help me make it through the night, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne 2008 Nameless, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney 2007 Nadine Christensen, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne 2005 Make your own windows, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney Fine and Mild, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne 2004 Its been a long time longing, for NEW04. Curator: Geraldine Barlow, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne A Specially Built Ruin, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, ACT, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell. 2003 Blueblocker Epic, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne 2002 Making Eyes, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney 2001 Fen, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne. 1999 Fantastic Plan, 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space, Melbourne. Glarefoil, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne. 1998 Seismic Electric, Lovers, Melbourne.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2020 Outside Painting, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide 2018 The Shape of Things to Come, curator Melissa Keys, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne 2017 The Sunshine Suite, curated by Jon Campbell, Darren Knight Gallery Sydney, Hugo Michell Gallery Adelaide I Heart Pat Larter, Curated by Geoff Newton, Neon Parc, Brunswick, Melbourne 2016 Painting, More Painting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 2014 Work, Curator: Helen Johnston, Slopes, Melbourne In some places it’s illegal to hang your washing out to dry, Curator: Rosemary Forde, Sarah Scout, Melbourne Re-raising Consciousness, Curators: Harriot Morgan, Fayen d’Evie, Katherine Hattam, TCB, Melbourne Domestic Bliss, Curator: Emma Cox, Deakin University Art Gallery Wild Places, Curator: Rozalind Drummond, Motor Works Gallery, Melbourne Kaleidoscope, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne 2013 Group Show, KalimanRawlins Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Nadine Christensen and Anne Wallace Recent Paintings, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2012 Panorama. Are we there yet? Curator: Toni Bailey, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 2010 Photocopier, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 2008 Worlds End, Curators: Meredith Turnbull and Steven Rendall, Carlton Club, Melbourne Drawing a Conclusion, Curator: Danny Lacey, Peloton Gallery Sydney, Hell Gallery Melbourne Revolving Doors, an exhibition in memory of Blair Trenthowan, Uplands Gallery 2008 Falls Creek Artist Camp Exhibition, Falls Creek, Victori Magistery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Faculty Gallery, Monash University Caulfield

2007 Electric Valley Studios, Switchback Gallery, Monash University Uturn, Curators: Kate Shaw and Larissa Hjorth, Glendale College of Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery Electric Valley Studios, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland An answer to the parts only itinerant sighs can fathom, Curator: Storm Gold, Victoria Park Gallery 2006 TarraWarra Museum of Art Biennial, Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today, Curator: Victoria Lynn, Tarra Warra Museum of Art Bartertown, Uplands Gallery Big in Japan, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery Silenzi, Curators: Natalie King and Giovanna Zabottii, Prigioni de Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy 2005 This & Other Worlds, Contemporary Australian Drawing, Curator: Kirsty Grant, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne Neo Folk, Curator: Julian Holcroft, Lithuanian Club, Melbourne Six orbits around the blue moon, RAMP gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand Frieze, Curators: Anna White and Sophie Knezic, Brown Street Gallery, RMIT University,Melbourne A Portable Model Of, Curator: Tristian Koening, Plimsol Gallery, Hobart, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria Deep Purple, Curator: Rozalind Drummond, Manning Clarke House, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2004 This World, Curator: Delphine Coindet, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France Junket, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico 2003 This was the future…, Curator: Zara Stanhope, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Everyday at home, anytime away, for the LA International, SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Artissima Art Fair, (with Uplands Gallery) Turin, Italy 2002 Mutable Spaces, Curator: Josh Milani, Metro Arts, Brisbane Into the Blue, Curator: Linda Michael, Monash University Museum of Art Octopus 3, Curator: Charlotte Day, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Recent Painting, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, New South Wales 2001 Painting: an arcane technology, Curators: Bala Starr/Natalie King, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne Diamonds in the Rough, a video vaudiville, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Unsigned Artists 2001, Curators: Samantha Comte and Max Delany, Niagra Galleries 2000 No Noise, Curator: Max Delaney, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland Concrete Livingroom, Curator: Bridget Crone, First Floor Artists and Writers Space 1999 Handle with care, Curator: Lisa Young/Meagan Evans, Annual Community and Public Sector Union Work Cover Exhibition, Steps Gallery Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Traveling Scholarship exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne 1998 Liquid Evasions, Curator: Jessica Ball and Anjanette Shaw, Plimsol Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania Trappings, Temple, Melbourne Special Issue*, for the Melbourne for the Melbourne International Fashion Festival First Floor Artist and Writers Space In Search of Booty, for the Next Wave Arts Festival, Mildura Art Centre, Mildura, Victoria Atopic Detail, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne 1997 Feeling Machines, Curator: Johnathon Nichols, Stripp, Melbourne Gals Work, Curator: Joan Winter, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne Collaboration: 2005 Timeline, with Lyndal Walker, Studio 14, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne 2004 Standing Sitting Kneeling, with Raaf Iashak, CLUBSproject, Melboune 2000 Exquisite Corpse, with Andrea Blundell and Nick Stephenson, Curator: Anonda Bell, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery, Victoria 1998 Equipotential Space, with Andrea Blundell, Talk Artist Initiative, Melbourne

Published Works and Curatorial Projects 2020 Curator, Outside Painting, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide 2015 Artist pages, MATERIAL, John Nixon, Published by West Space, Melbourne 2008 Artist pages, Worlds End publication for Worlds End, Carlton Club, Melbourne 2007 Artist pages, An answer to the parts only itinerant sighs can fathom, published by Storm Gold for Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne 2006 Curator, Bartertown, Uplands Gallery Melbourne 2005 Artist page, Volumeeverything, published by Clubs Project for Clubs Project @ Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Co-curator, with James Lynch, Six orbits around the blue moon, RAMP Gallery, Hamilton New Zealand Artist page, Pataphysics Magazine, Publishing Issue, ed. Yanni Florence and Leo Edelstein Artist page, A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gertrude 20th Anniversary Publication, p.29, ed. Charlotte Day, pub. Black Ink 2004 Editor, with Starlie Geikie and Laressa Kosloff, 24 hour love, for CLUBS in the Pines, Switchback Gallery, Monash University Gippsland Curator, CLUBS in the Pines, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland Artist page, Volumeeveryone, CLUBSproject 2003 Guest Curator, Last turn on the left, emerging artists from rural Victoria, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne 2001 Curator, with Paul Sloan, Diamonds In The Rough: a Video Vaudiville, Gerturde Contemporary Art Spaces Artist page, Rubik, Iss. 11, ed James Lynch and Julia Gorman (artist publication) 2000 – 2001 Curator, Shelf Space, Craft Victoria, Melbourne 1999 Editor, Rubik, the Fantastic Plan Issue, Iss. 8, (artist publication) 1998 -2000 Curator, Slide Space, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne/Canberra School of Art, Canberra, ACT 1998 Artist Page, Rubik, Iss. 1 (artist publication)

Selected Bibliography 2020 Anna Dunnill, Navigating Home Work Art Life, preview, Art Guide, March/April Jane Llewellyn, Outside Painting, exhibition reflects on the ‘fluid boundary’ between art and life, review, The Adelaide Review, Issue 488 Laura Skerlj, In through your window, catalogue essay, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide 2018 Anna Dunnill, House/Work(hang in there), review, UN magazine 2018 Melissa Keys, The Shape of Things to Come, catalogue essay, Buxton Contemporary 2016 Jesse Marlow, Nadine Christensen Studio, interview, Art Guide, May Kim Brockett Painting More Painting, catalogue essay, ACCA 2015 Storm Gold, Materials, CAVES, catalogue essay, www.cavesgallery.com 2014 Rosemary Forde, Nadine Christensen, catalogue essay for STATION gallery Dylan Rainforth, Labyrinthine element intrigues, review, The Age Newspaper, p 40, 25th June Dan Rule, In Some places it’s illegal to hang out your washing to dry, review, The Sydney Morning Herald, 5th Dec Robert Nelson, Exhibitions dig deep in contemplation of womens archeology, review, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17th Nov Emma Cox, Home Sweet Home: some interpretations of the domestic space and a doubled interior, catalogue essay, Deakin University Art Gallery Dylan Rainforth, Labyrinthine element intrigues, review, The Age Newspaper, p 40, Wednesday 25th June 2012 Victoria Lynn, Nadine Christensen and Anne Wallace, catalogue essay, TarraWarra Museum of Art 2010 Rosemary Forde, Signals and Decoys, catalogue essay, Hugo Michelle Gallery 2007 Jarrod Rawlins, Nadine Christensen: the dust on your feet and the haze on the horizon, text, Untitled. Portraits of Australian Artists, pub. Macmillan Julie Cotter, Electric Valley Studios, catalogue essay, Switchback Gallery, Monash University Gippsalnd Ashley Crawford, Nadine Christensen U turn, catalogue essay, Glendale College of the Arts Gallery Penny Webb, Canvass the canvas, review, The Age newspaper, 20th July, p 15 Alison Barclay, Bertoli's face value, review, Herald Sun newspaper 16 July, p 89 Gabriella Coslovich, Lusciousness in pant wins prize, article, The Age Newspaper, 30th June, p.9 David Hansen, Structure underpins randomness, review, The Age Newspaper, March 30th, p. 17 Megan Backhouse, Bartertown, Art around the galleries, review, The Age Newspaper, March 15th 2006 Ashely Crawford, National Works on Paper Award, preview, The Age Newspaper, 25th June, p.18 Charlotte David, Exposition, interview, Alliance Magazine de Melbourne, Oct-Nov Issue, p. 12-13. Robert Nelson, Slick smoothed and stylised paintings leave the angst of yesteryear behind, review, The Age Newspaper, p17, 30th August Victoria Lynn, Parallel Lives, catalogue essay, Tarra Warra Biennial, Tarra Warra Museum of Art Natalie King, Silenzi, interview Prigioni di Palazzo Ducale, Venezia, Italy Ashley Crawford, Business as usual, review, The Age newspaper, April 10th Lisa Benson, Orbiting, article, Natural Selection Magazine, Issue 5, www.naturalselection.org.nz 2005 Kirsty Grant, This and Other Worlds, catalogue essay, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria Karen Burns, Frieze, catalogue essay, Frieze, School of Art Gallery, RMIT University Ashley Crawford, Nadine Christensen : Fine and Mild, review, The Age Newspaper, Preview, p38, May 29 Charlotte Hallows, Nadine Christensen and Kate Rhode, review, UN magasine, Issue 3 2004 Kit Wise, New 04, review, Frieze, Issue 88, September Cliff Burtt, New 04, review, Artlink, Vol 24, No 2 Robert Nelson, New 04, review, The Age Newspaper, May 5th Lisa Byrne, A specially built ruin, catalogue essay, Canberra Contemporary Art Spaces Zara Stanhope, Love Shack, catalogue essay, A Specially Built Ruin, Canberra Contemporary Art Spaces Megan Backhouse, No mere display, review, The Age newspaper, A2 section, 27th July, p. 8 Chloe Kinsman, Its been a long time longing, catalogue essay, NEW04, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Geraldine Barlow, How to find the frontier, catalogue essay, NEW04, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Lindsay Dunbar, Nadine Christensen/Delphine Coindet, article p. 472, Art and Australia Vol 41, No 3, Autumn 2003 Andy Alexander, Everyday at home, any time away, catalogue essay, Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Marie Pejus, Perfect Sky, catalogue essay, Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Lucinda Strahan, Active Art, review, The Age Newspaper, A3 section, p12. October 16 Zara Stanhope, All the things you are, catalogue essay, p.70, This was the future…, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2002 Andrew McQualter, Nadine Christensen, catalogue essay, Into the Blue, Monash University Museum of Art Robert Nelson, A heady experience, review, The Age Newspaper, 13th July Heidi Jermyn, Mutable Spaces, review, E-zine, Vol. 16, Iss. 5. Alexie Glass, Smart Art, article, Australian Art Collector, Issue 22, Oct-Dec Andrea Tu, Nadine Christensen, comment, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales Josh Millani, Mutable Spaces, catalogue essay, Mutable Spaces, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland Ihor Holubizky, Mutable spaces, review, p.23, Eyeline # 48 Charlotte Day, Still time: temporality, transformation and the possibilities of distraction, catalogue essay, Octopus, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne Chris Reid , Painting: reinvigorating the arcane, review, Real Time 42 April-May p.33 2001 Nicole Tomlinson, Chinese whispers, poetic response, Diamonds in the Rough: a video vaudeville, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne Racheal Anthony, Nadine Christensen, comment, Wallpaper Magazine, p.78 Bala Starr /Natalie King, Suspended Animation, catalogue essay, Painting: an arcane technology, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne Chris Reid , Painting: reinvigorating the arcane, review, Real Time 42 April-May p.33 Anna Clabburn, Painting an arcane technology, review, The Australian Newspaper, 16th February AnnaDaly, Last turn on the Left, catalogue essay, Last turn on the left, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne 2000 Bridget Crone, Concrete living room, catalogue essay, Concrete living room, 1stFloor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne Max Delany, Light Colour Action, catalogue essay, No Noise, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland Peter Anderson, No Noise, review, p. 18, Eyeline #42 Peter Anderson, Making connections at the Metro, review, The Courier Mail Newspaper, April 19th Maryanne Lynch, Not Noise, review, LIKE magazine, No. 12 1999 Daniel Palmer, And I may ask myself how do I work this, catalogue essay, Same as it ever was, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne 1998 D.J. Huppatz, Equipotential Space, review, Art and Text 62 Sandra Bridie, Talk#35, interview, Talk Artist Initiative, Melbourne Brendan Wall, Silent Fall, catalogue essay, Linden Arts Centre, Melbourne 1997 Robyn McKenzie, Gals Work, catalogue essay, City of Port Phillip exhibition space, Melbourne Stephen Zagala-O’Connell, Feeling Machines, catalogue essay, Feeling Machines, Stripp, Melbourne

Selected Public and Private Collections National Gallery of Victoria Buxton Collection Bendigo Art Gallery Geelong Art Gallery Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection Maquarie Bank Limited, Art Collection Joyce Nissan Collection Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale City of Port Phillip Collection, Melbourne Monash University Museum of Art Contemporary Collection Maddocks Contemporary Art Collection Novotel Australia RACV Collection of Contemporary Art

Education 2006 - Master of Arts Research, Monash University, Caulfield (did not complete) 1996-1997 Post Graduate Diploma, Victorian College of the Arts 1991-1993 Bachelor of Arts, Painting, Monash University, Gippsland.

Awards 2019 RM Mc Givern Prize 2007 Deans Award for Excellence in Teaching (Visiting Lecturer), Monash University 2006 Australian Post Graduate Award (APA) 2003 Arts Victoria, Export and Touring Grant 2002 Australia Council for the Arts, Development Grant, Los Angeles Studio, USA Pat Corrigan Artists Grant 1998 Pat Corrigan Artists Grant Centre for Contemporary Photography , C.P.L Prize, 1998 -1991 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Studio Residency

Professional Experience 2021 Sessional Lecturer, RMIT School of Art, Melbourne 2016 – 2021 Tutor in Art, VCA Art, Melbourne University. (Breadth, Drawing and Printmaking Department, Painting Department and Honours Program) 2019 VCA Access Mentor 2007 – 2016 Sessional Lecturer, School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University 2015 – 2017 Teaching Associate, Painting Studio, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, Monash University 2013 Artist in residence, Woodleigh School, Langwarrin South Mentor Redlands Minolta Art Prize, Sydney, curator Julie Rrapp 2011 Lecturer, School of Art, RMIT University Judge (with Greg Creek), ANL Maratime Art Prize, Mission to Seafearers, Melbourne 2009 Teaching Associate, Painting Studio, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, Monash University 2008 Artist in residence, Falls Creek Artist Camp, Falls Creek 2007 -2008 Lecturer, School of Art, RMIT University Lecturer, Afterhours/Winter School, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University 2007 Coordinating committee, Sustainable Practices Workshop, Meat Market Arts Centre, Melbourne Artist in Residence, Caulfield Grammar, Melbourne Committee Member, Committee of Graduate Studies, Monash University Lecturer, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Monash University 2002-2007 Founding Member and committee member, CLUBSproject, Melbourne 2006 Sessional Lecturer, School of Art, RMIT University Guest Lecturer, Victorian College of the Arts 2005 Guest Speaker, Spark05 Conference, Creative Industries Research Centre and School of Media Arts, Hamilton, New Zealand Guest Lecturer, Department of Art and Visual Culture, Latrobe University, Bendigo 2002-2005 Education officer, Outreach program, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne. 2004 Guest Tutor, Sculpture Department, RMIT University, Melbourne External Assessor, Masters by coursework, Monash University Guest Lecturer, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Monash University Gippsland 2003 Guest speaker, Postgraduate Art Forums, Monash University Caulfield 2000-2001 Exhibition Selection Committee Member, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne 2000 Guest Lecturer, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne 1999-2000 Guest Lecturer, Victorian College of the Arts, School of Visual Arts, Melbourne of University 1998-2002 Exhibition Selection Committee Member, Helen Shutte Access Gallery at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

Nadine Christensen is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne