Tinspirations,
This series of work is inspired by vintage biscuit tins. Look Inside the tin to find painting and the palette nestled inside where there are two paintings in one.
Weather and Wonder, Landscape series
Explores our connections to the landscape and how we exist alongside the natural world. Take a walk to find yourself transported by nature, its changing moods, ethereal fluctuations and moody themes of darkness and light.
Artist Bio and CV
I am a practicing artist, and Iyengar yoga teacher, based in Adelaide and currently working from a studio called Collective Haunt, an artist run studio situated in Norwood. In this studio I am surrounded by many talented artists practising in various mediums. It’s a very stimulating environment of fresh ideas and concepts for any artist.
As a painter I like to work in the genres of Landscape and Still life. I am inspired by painters such as Anna Platten, Clarice Beckett, and Margaret Olly. Painting for me is a mediative activity, I enjoy the discipline, to find pleasure in the simple sensory acts of observation, of mixing colours and applying paint to canvas.
Instagram @nicolasemmens art
Education
1987 North Adelaide School of Art
1988-1992 University of South Australia, Bachelor of Arts, visual arts
1996 Flinders University, Honours Degree, Screen Studies
2007-2012 Short Courses at, Adelaide Central School of Art
Awards
1997 Young Film Makers Award, Best Film Clip: for Devils Cabaret,
Employment
2016-2023 Iyengar Yoga instructor
2018-2022 Working at Collective Haunt (artist run studio)
2007-2015 Ann Newmarch Artist studios in Prospect
2015-16 Carlclew Youth Arts; School Holiday workshops for children
1996-2000 Freelancer in Film and Television as an Art Department Coordinator
and Production Designer on various short and feature films.
Filmography
1998 ‘Dance Me to My Song’ (Rolf De ’Heer,)
2000 The Adventures of Chuck Finn, (Baron Productions)
2001 The Summer of Love (Wayne Groom)
Residencies
May 2023 Awakenings at Wick Wick Farm Somerset Uk
Board Member
2011-2023 Secretary, Friends of the South Australian School of Art
Exhibitions
August 2023 Hahndorf Academy SALA, Weather Wonder and Whimsy
April 2023 The art of Noticing Collective Haunt
Sept 2022 Loreto SpringART
Sept 2022 Between the Earth and the Sky Collective Haunt
Sep 2022 Constantly Curious, Hahndorf Academy (SALA)
June 2022 Feature, Food in Art, Artedit magazine
July 2021 Postcards exhibition Collective Haunt.
Oct 2019 Finalist in the Adelaide Hills Landscape Prize
July 2017 Journeys exhibition, Gallery M, Prize winner
Feb 2017 Emma Hack art prize, finalist
May 2016 Another World Exhibition Hahndorf Academy
Aug 2015 SALA Adelaide Botanic Gardens; Diggers Shop
June 2015 Governor Hindmarsh Hotel
Jan 2015 Foyer exhibition at the Intercontinental Hotel Adelaide
Aug 2014 SALA, Red Opus Art Space
Aug 2013 Little Deceptions Two Still lives. One Rundle Trading
Aug 2012 Thinking of Margaret, Art images Gallery
May 2012 Some of our Friends’, Regency Medical Centre
Feb 2012 Serendipity’ Governor Hindmarsh Hotel
Aug2011 Imagining Alice’ Art Images Gallery, Solo show
April 2012 Second of Friends’ Festival Theatre foyer
Feb 2011 Friends of the South Australian School of Art’
Dec 2010 16th Community Show’ Prospect Art Gallery
May 2010 Friends of the South Australian school of Art
Sept 2009 First of Friends’, Friends of The South Australian School of Art
Dec 2008 Tale’s on the Table’ Eye to Eye Fine Art
Aug 2008 SALA, Ann Newmarch Studios