Nicole Welch - Apparitions

NICOLE WELCH Apparitions 25 March to 17 April 2014

Nicole Welch Apparitions 25 March to 17 April 2014

Bathurst-based media artist Nicole Welch produces stunning images of picturesque landscapes that have a loaded symbol implanted into each painstakingly-composed scene. Welch does not resort to using Photoshop and instead takes mobile cranes with candelabras, generators, spotlights and projectors to her chosen location where she camps out, waiting for the perfect light, before capturing these alluring disruptions illuminated within captivating landscapes.

In this series of photographs of media installations in the Australian landscape, projected images emerge from the terrain and escarpment, appearing and receding simultaneously. These works reveal the embedded cultural history and idealism projected onto this land since colonisation, centering on the Australian Romantic landscape painters who brought a European sensibility and vision to their depictions of this ‘new’ world.

Nicole Welch ‘Apparitions #1, Projection - Mount Arapiles and the Mitre Rock 1863, Nicholas Chevalier’ 2013 pigment ink, face-mounted 95 x 200cm (also available 61 x 130cm) edition of 6 in two sizes

Nicole Welch ‘Tondo #1, Smoke Haze over the Central Plains’ 2014 pigment ink, face-mounted 60cm diameter edition of 6

Nicole Welch ‘Apparitions #3, Projection - Pulpit Rock, Cape Schanck, Victoria, 1860s, Nicholas Chevalier’ 2014 pigment ink, face-mounted 95 x 200cm (also available 61 x 130cm) edition of 6 in two sizes

Nicole Welch ‘Tondo #2, Low Tide

by Moonlight’ 2014 pigment ink, face-mounted 60cm diameter edition of 6

Nicole Welch ‘Apparitions #4, Projection - The Upper Nepean, 1889, WC Piguenit’ 2014 pigment ink, face-mounted 95 x 200cm (also available 61 x 130cm) edition of 6 in two sizes

Nicole Welch ‘Tondo #3, Kanangra Wall Lookout’ 2014 pigment ink, face-mounted 60cm diameter edition of 6

Nicole Welch, ‘Apparitions #2, Projection - Fern Tree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges, 1857, Eugene von Guerard’ 2014, pigment ink, face-mounted 130 x 61cm, edition of 6

Nicole Welch, ‘Apparitions #5, Projection - Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair, Tasmania, 1875, WC Piguenit’ 2014, pigment ink, face-mounted 130 x 61cm, edition of 6

NICOLE WELCH SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Apparitions, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

2013 Illumination, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

2012 Illumination: New Work Nicole Welch, Bathurst Regional

Art Gallery, Bathurst 2008 Stealing Beauty, FCA Gallery, Faculty of Creative Arts,

University of Wollongong 2007 Stealing Beauty, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst 1998 e’merging, Print Gallery, Canberra School of Art ANU

Leaden Veil, Stairwell Gallery, Canberra School of Art

ANU, Canberra SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 Christmas Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

Wilson Visual Art Award, Finalist, Lismore

Art on Paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Finalist, Hazelhurst

Regional Gallery, Sydney

Plan B, Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection,

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst 2012 CLIP Award, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth

Head On Portrait Prize, Australian centre for Photography

Flannery Centre Art Prize, Bathurst

B Positive, Orange Block Gallery, Orange 2011 Dog Speak, Orange B Block Gallery, Orange 2010 Harris Farm Markets $5000 Acquisitive Art Prize, Winner,

Bathurst City Gallery 2009 New Figuration, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 2008 Printing Figuratively, Port Jackson Press, Centre for Australian Printmaking 2007 OUT OF THE BLUE into the void, Orange Regional Art Gallery

56th Blake Prize for Religious Art, The Gallery, NAS

The presence of things: sense, veneer and guise, touring

exhibition. Faculty Gallery: Monash University, Wangaratta

Exhibitions Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre, Warrnambool Art

Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Castlemaine Art Gallery,

Ararat Gallery, Tamworth Regional Gallery.

2006 House of Flowers, Installation at Miss Traill’s House, Bathurst

Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne

Pressing Issues, print symposium, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 2005 Art on paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery

New Works-Nicole Welch & Ruth Stone, Warpstanza

Gallery, Bathurst

B R E N D A M AY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (cont’d) 2002 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Glen Eira Art Gallery, Melbourne 2000 Soft Obsessive Violation, Spiral Arm Gallery, Kingston, ACT 1999 Substance-Emerging Artists 99, ANCA Gallery, Canberra

NCG-Not Conceptually Grounded, Print Folio, Studio One, Canberra 1998 Ex’cita-Graduatiing Exhibition, Canberra School of Art ANU 1996 Multiple Visions, ANCA Gallery, Canberra AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/COMMISSIONS 2013 Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Commission, permanent

artwork for the foyer

Wilson Visual Art Award, Finalist, Lismore

Art on Paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Finalist, Hazelhurst

Regional Gallery, Sydney 2102 CLIP Award, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Finalist

Head On Portrait Prize, Australian centre for Photography,

Sydney, Short-listed

Flannery Centre Art Prize, Bathurst, Finalist 2011 Windmill Trust Scholarship for a Regional NSW Artist, Winner 2010 Harris Farm Markets $5000 Acquisitive Art Award, Winner

Country Energy Funded Residency Awarded; Artists in

Residence program Hill End, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 2008 Royal Doulton & Jenolan Caves Plate design Commission

Bathurst Base Hospital Commission, Installation of three light

boxes for the Intensive Care Unit waiting room. Greater

Western Area Health Service, Health NSW 2007 Blake Prize for Religious Art, Finalist, 2005 Art on paper Hazelhurst Art Award, Finalist, Hazelhurst

Regional Gallery 2004 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Finalist, Glen Eira Art

Gallery, Melbourne 2002 Silkcut Award for Linocut Prints, Finalist, Glen Eira Art

Gallery, Melbourne 2000 Artist Grant, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra 1998 Studio One Residency Award, Emerging Artist Support

Scheme, ANU

Megalo Access Residency Award, Emerging Artist Support

Scheme, ANU

Chamberlains Law Firm Acquisition Award, Emerging Artist

Support Scheme, ANU COLLECTIONS Bathurst Regional Art Gallery; Canberra School of Art Collection, ANU; Greater Western Area Health Service, Health NSW; Harris Farm Markets Collection; National Library Of Australia; Private Collections.

G A L L E R Y

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