Verna Nichols b. 1947

  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Weaver),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Ceramist)
Verna Nichols is a Tasmanian Aboriginal painter, drawer, silk screen printmaker, weaver and kelp worker who works from her home in Hobart, Tasmania.
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Name
Verna Nichols
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist
  • Artist (Weaver)
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Ceramist)
Other Occupation
  • Senior Printer/Coordinator (Senior Printer/Coordinator Palawa Prints 2000/2002)
  • Office Administrator/Partner (Office Administrator/Partner Strahan Engineering 1990/1992)
  • Trainee Curator (Trainee Curator Anthropology Department, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1987/1990)
  • Coordinator (Coordinator Women's Karadi Aboriginal Corporation 1984/1986)
  • Deckhand (Deckhand 1980/1984)
  • Mothercraft Nurse (Mothercraft Nurse Aboriginal Children's Centre 1986/1987)
  • Cultural Officer (Cultural Officer Palawa Aboriginal Corporation 2002/2003)
Birth date
1947
Birth place
Flinders Island, Tasmania
Active Period
  • 1975-
Residence
  • 1947 - 1954 Flinders Island, TAS
  • 1954 - 1967 Hobart, TAS
  • 1967 - 1969 Melbourne, VIC
  • 1969 - 1990 Hobart, TAS
  • 1990 - 1997 Strahan, TAS
  • 1997- Hobart, TAS
Training
  • 1994 Tasmania
  • 1999 Palawa Prints
Indigenous Australian
 
Heritage Country
  • Bunurong, VIC
  • Cape Barren Island, TAS
  • Flinders Island, TAS
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW
Copyright
  • Nichols, Verna

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