Trevor Nickolls b. 1949

  • Artist (Painter)
South Australian Aboriginal painter who began working in the visual arts in the early 1970s. Along with Rover Thomas, Nickolls represented Australia in the 1990 Venice Biennale. Nickolls has work in many public collections including the Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery of SA and the National Gallery of Australia.
exhibited at
Other side art: Trevor Nickolls, a survey of paintings and drawings 1972-2007
Description

Other side art is the first museum survey of the work of senior South Australian artist, Trevor Nickolls. Nickolls has been described as ‘the father of urban Aboriginal art’. He stands as a seminal figure whose career has spanned an unprecedented era of Aboriginal cultural expression since colonisation. Over more than thirty years, Nickolls has developed a unique repertoire of visual symbols to depict the impact of Western culture on Aboriginal traditional life. His art informs many of the critical intellectual and aesthetic positions that are vital to questions of identity and Aboriginality in Australia.

Website
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/fromyear/2001/toyear/2012/exhib-date/2009-05-13/exhib/other-side-art-trevor-nickolls-a-survey-of-paintings-and-drawings-1972-2007
Making Tracks: A Glimpse at Two Decades of Aboriginal Art in South Australia
Date
19 October 2009 - 4 December 2009
Place
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.tandanya.com.au/nd49/making-tracks-a-glimpse-at-two-decades-of-aboriginal-art-in-sa/
exhibited at
Nungar Spirituality - New Drawings by Trevor Nickolls
Date
2006
Place
Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.vivienandersongallery.com/exhibitions/previous.html
exhibited at
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Date
2004
Description

National tour to celebrate the awards first 20 years.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
1990 Venice Biennale Australia: Rover Thomas/Trevor Nickolls
Date
1990
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description

Organised by the Art Gallery of Western Australia on behalf of the Australia Council. Toured to Tandanya Aboriginal cultural Institute, Adelaide; Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne; SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Moree Plains Regional Gallery, NSW. Two Aboriginal artists, Rover Thomas and Trevor Nickolls, were selected by the Australia Council to represent Australia officially in the 1990 Venice Biennale in and exhibition prepared by the Curator of Aboriginal art, Michael O’Ferrall. Twenty-five works were selected from private and state collections to represent two distinctive and challenging faces of contemporary Australian art.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report

Exhibition Catalogue:
1990 Venice Biennale, Australia: artists, Rover Thomas, Trevor Nickolls. Perth, WA: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1990
ISBN 073090783X

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Venice, Painting
exhibited at
Venice Biennale
Date
1990
Place
Venice, Italy
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
A new generation 1983-1988: The Philip Morris Arts Grant Purchases
Date
4 June 1988 - 17 July 1988
Place
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
From dreamtime to machinetime
Date
1982
Place
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
Description

An exhibition of 34 paintings by Trevor Nickolls.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NT annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Beier, Ulli, Dream time, machine time : the art of Trevor Nickolls. Bathurst, N.S.W. : Robert Brown & Associates in association with the Aboriginal Artists Agency, 1985.
ISBN 0949267139

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting