Nina Battley

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1966 Born in Germany
1972-1976 Lived in Jakarta, Indonesia
1976-1977 Lived in Teheran, Iran
1978 Immigrated to Australia, W.A.
1984-1986 Lived in Germany
1996 Travelled Asia, South America & Europe
1997 Returned to Australia, W.A
2005 Moved to Darwin, NT Australia.

Qualifications
1987- 1992 Diploma in Fine Arts, WA School of Art and Design
1998 Certificate of Creative Courses in Interior Art & Design

Exhibitions
1991 Gomboc Gallery, Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture
1992 Art Space Gallery, Mixed Exhibition
1992 Claremont School of Art- Graduate Exhibition
1992 Joan Cambell Art Expo, Esplanade, Fremantle
1992 PICA, WA. Dance Performance
1993 Prickles, Solo Exhibition
1993 Greenhill Gallery, Mixed Exhibition
1994 Art Expo, Fremantle Passenger Terminal
1995 Art Space Gallery Claremont - Mixed Exhibition
1995 Port Gallery Fremantle “LIVING ART”- Solo Exhibition
1997 Delaney Galleries “BRAVARDO”- Wearable Art
1998 The Hellenic Gallery at the Museum of WA –“Stiletto”
2000 Moores Building Fremantle T.A.B. Exhibition
2007 Harriet Space Gallery Darwin - Solo Exhibition
2008 Cross Cultural Art Exchange Darwin - Solo Exhibition
2008 Darwin Entertainment Centre - Mixed Exhibition
2009 Mantra Pandanus Hotel Darwin – Solo Foyer Exhibition
2009 Stone Island Darwin – Solo Foyer Exhibition
2009 CCAE Darwin- Solo Exhibition
2009 Don Whyte – Darwin - Mixed Exhibition
2009 Gallery 139 Adelaide - Mixed Exhibition
2009 Metro Art Space – Adelaide – Mixed Exhibition
2009 Deck the Walls Christmas Exhibition - CCAE Mixed Exhibition
2010 Cross Cultural Art Exchange – Solo Exhibition
2010 DVAA – Wydham Plate Awards Exhibition- Mixed Exhibition
2010 Togart Contemporary Art Awards – Mixed Exhibition
2011 The Studio Gallery, Yallingup - Mixed Exhibitions

Media & Publications
1995 Fremantle Harold - Nina’s Top of the Table. By: M. Nugent
1997 West Australian - Wearable Art
2007 ABC Stateline NT- TV Art Closer
2007 NT NEWS- Art Fix
2007 Resident Magazine
2007 ABC Life Etc Magazine
2008 ABC Stateline NT- TV Art closer
2008 Art World Magazine issue 2
2008 NT NEWS – Art Fix
2008 Art World Magazine issue 6
2009 Sunday Arts show - ABC TV
2009 Australian Art Review- issue 20
2009 West Australian – Written by William Yeoman
2009 Art Monthly Artnotes- issue 225
2009 Art Collector – issue 50
2009 NT News- Art Fix – October
2010 ABC Stateline – TV Art Closer
2010 Outback Australia Magazine – June/July issue
2010 Art Monthly – August/September issue
2010 Darwin Life September issue
2010 Off The Leash September issue
2011 NT Writers Association
2011 MLC Strive Magazine

Art Awards
1994 Northam Art Prize Awards (Selected)
1995 Vincent Art Awards (Selected)
1998 Save the Whales Art Awards – Greenpeace, SciTech (High Commendation)
2010 Northern Territory Togart Awards (Selected)
2010 Wyndam Estate Plate Awards (Winner)

Collections
1992 Art Space, Claremont W.A.
2001 Vermilion, Cottesloe W.A.
2000 Art Co-ordinates, Private collection Subiaco W.A.
2007 SoMa Galleries, Adelaide S.A.
2009 Globetrotter Corporate Travel
2009 Air North
2011 Leeuwin Estate Wines

Biography

“Making the big move from Perth to Darwin has been something of a revelation for abstract artist Nina Battley. She takes the heat and humidity of our northernmost city, absorbs its unique tropical colours and shapes and then creates something else entirely.”
(ABC – Sunday Arts 2009)

Biography of the Artist
Nina was born in Germany and lived in Indonesia and Iran before immigrating to Australia in 1978.

Nina holds a diploma in Fine Arts from the WA Claremont School of Art and a certificate in Interior Design.

As an evolving creative artist Nina has a great love for interior design but finds her greatest passion to be abstract painting. She has been involved in numerous solo and mixed art exhibitions around Australia since graduating in 1992.

Nina works from her studio in Darwin’s northern suburb of Nightcliff. Since moving to Darwin in 2005 Nina has found the combination of her love for the lush tropics and the Northern Territory landscape a total inspiration resulting in a string of very successful solo exhibitions in Darwin.

Most recently in 2010 Nina was the winner of the Wyndham Estate Plate Awards and also a finalist in the Northern Territory Togart Contemporary Art Awards. In 2009 she was presented on the Sunday Arts program and in several media publications.

Nina’s paintings are very much inspired by her surrounding influences, subjects, mood and love of design & colour. Nina uses a repertoire of motifs and symbols such as loops, thick lines, odd shaped circles and pointed edges that repeat themselves and tell her story in some shape or form throughout her paintings. She seems to stumble across themes, like her buffaloes, buffalo horns and her falling rocks and playfully uses these and threads them together with painted grids and beating life lines. Her bold choices of colour bravely weave their way through and around all the
layers of her painted stories.

“I am always surprised by the outcomes of my paintings - I know what the influences are before I start and where I am heading, but so often the journey is diverted or hijacked and I go with the flow of what’s unfolding before me. Painting is like an experiment to me, I never quite know the end result but the journey getting there is filled with a mixture of wonderful ingredients” (Nina Battley)