NANCY CONSTANDELIA

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M A Y

Penumbra xi 2023 styled into Alpha House by Claire Delmar, features in the upcoming May 2024 issue of Elle Decoration UK. Photography by Anson Smart. Interior Design by Studio Prineas.

Below: Untitled 2023 acrylic on Italian linen 96.5cm x 71cm styled here by Claire Delmar for Belinda Ellice Flint. Styling Photography by Felix Forest.

A P R I L

Opening 6th April 2024, Colour is Enough curated by David Sequiera at APA Gallery

Colour is Enough presents recent bodies of work by Arts Project Australia artists Wendy Dawson, Ruth Howard and Julian Martin within a broader context of Australian monochrome painting and sculpture.

In monochrome works of art there is no single focal point. Unlike the process of reading words on a page, there is no direction for where to start or finish. Viewers are not called to progress from one section to another, but rather to engage with the totality of a single colour. More specifically, understanding and experience is based on ‘consuming’ the whole work of art at once.

In monochromes, colour is its own entity that is distinct and independent. Related to (but not beholden to) form, colour is enough. Nothing else is needed for it to challenge, move, evoke and energise.

The exhibition will feature Eleanor Louise Butt, Nancy Constandelia, Renee Cosgrave, Rox De Luca, A.D.S Donaldson, Mikala Dwyer, Louise Gresswell, Aaron Martin, Jackson McLaren, John Nixon, Ron Robertson Swann, David Serisier, Madeline Simm, Lachlan Stonehouse, David Thomas, Sam George & Lisa Radford, Barbara Puruntatameri and Hayden Stuart will exhibit alongside APA artists Julian Martin, Wendy Dawson and Ruth Howard.

Read essay by David Sequiera here.

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O C T O B E R

Pleased to announce that the I am a finalist in three upcoming art prizes. Firstly the Mosman Art Prize, with ‘it rises in my spine and it manifests in tears’ judged by Fiona Lowry. Secondly, the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, with ‘I am not the one in love, It is love that seizes me’. Lastly, the Grace Cossington Biennial Art Award with ‘Penumbra 2021’ judged by Felicity Fenner and Blair French.

The dates to view these prize exhibitions are as follows:

• Mosman Art Prize at Mosman Art Gallery from now until 29th October.

• Fisher’s Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown Arts Centre from 28th October until 8th December

• Grace Cossington Biennial Art Award at Grace Cossington Art Gallery from 27th January to 24th February 2024

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M A R C H

Pleased to announce that I will be exhibiting alongside artists Djirrirra Wununmurra and Nicolette Johnson in Plus, minus equals, a group exhibition at Day01 Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney from 9th March - 8th April 2023. This will be my first exhibition in 2 years.

Opening Friday night 10th March 5-7pm

Day01 Gallery

189 Crown Street

Darlinghurst, Sydney.

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O C T O B E R

Pleased to announce that I have been selected for the Artist in Residency program at Bundanon for 2023

Bundanon’s Artists in Residence program supports new work, research and collaborations by professional artists and researchers from around the world. The multi-disciplinary residency program is the largest in Australia and provides artists time to conceive and develop new work and ideas in the iconic Shoalhaven landscape.

“The Artist in Residence program supports Bundanon’s reputation as a global arts organisation at the forefront of contemporary cultural production” - Rachel Kent, CEO, Bundanon Trust.

S E P T E M B E R

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M E L B O U R N E

Spring 1883 X Artsy

Due to COVID-19 Spring 1883 will be presented in collaboration with Artsy online from 4-29 August 2021.

Selected works for Spring 1883 will be exhibited on behalf of MARS Gallery, Melbourne, and simultaneously, a satellite exhibition of these works will be shown in situ at MARS Gallery, 7 James Street, Melbourne from 4-7 August 2021, which will be COVID safe.

Thank you to MARS Gallery, firstly for inviting me to present my recent Melbourne solo exhibition half past and secondly, to showcase selected works in this iteration of Spring 1883.

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M E L B O U R N E

half past - A solo exhibition

MARS Gallery

7 James Street,

Melbourne, Victoria

26th May - 23rd June 2021

“The paintings in half past are documents of time, like photographs. If so, then Constandelia’s paintings embrace and capture time in the way Hiroshi Sugimoto’s ‘time exposure’ photographs do, with deliberate slowness. They are concomitant with time. Painter-like or photographer-like, Constandelia redresses the bifurcation of these historically polarised modes.” - excerpt from accompanying text by James Gatt as featured in Artist Profile magazine.

S Y D N E Y

Opening Wednesday 21st April 2021 6.00-8.00pm

Galerie Pompom

DIADIKASIA

Essay by Chloe Wolifson

“Art is a space for conversations built on questions, not answers. The paintings in Diadikasia serve as a reminder of this, pushing the viewer into sometimes uncomfortably unfamiliar territory as we search for something to anchor ourselves to in the picture plane. In this space, colours, textures, gradations, and finishes take on new power and resonance, obliging the viewer to slow down and consider how and where meaning is found.”

- Chloe Wolifson. Excerpt from the exhibition essay

L A U N C E S T O N

Orbit, curated by Paul Snell, is open from 11 March to 6 May 2021 at Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania. Featuring Australian and international artists.

“Time is also a highly significant factor in this show - not just the time required for deep engagement but the time of production which is crucial in Nancy Constandelia’s work which may seem inconclusive and indirectly records the process itself.” - Sean Kelly, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

“In a time of social, political and emotional disruption Orbit will invite the viewer to slow down, take stock and breathe. The work in this exhibition is intended to place the viewer in a space that is just out of reach. Orbit will provide an escape from the daily narrative offering a ‘gravitational pull’ to other thoughts, processes and ideas. Orbit will showcase 43 amazing artists from across Australia and around the world. Steven Alexander, Susan Andrews, Peter Atkins, Gaston Bertin, Arvid Boecker, Terri Brooks, Matt Butterworth, Nancy Constandelia, Jeffery Cortland Jones, Michael Craik, Luuk de Haan, Ivan De Menis, Louise Gresswell, Anton Hart, Andy Harwood, Sam Holt, Suzie Idiens, Ash Keating, Lev Khesin, Emma Langridge, Christine Low, Kevin Lund, Doris Marten, Aaron Martin, Penny Mason, Tomislav Nikolic, Daniel O’Toole, Ilkka Parni, Ulla Pedersen, Anya Pesce, Laurien Renckens, Mark Rodda, Paul Snell, Evelyn Snoek, Liam Snootle, Elwira Skowronska, Kāryn Taylor, Aimee Terburg, Molly Thomson, Kees Van de Wal, Amy Vensel, Amanda Wilkinson, Werner Windisch“ - Paul Snell.



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SYDNEY

Huge thanks to Nick Tobias for choosing the works from Slow Motion as one of his top 5 favourites.

“There is something deeply soothing about the measured, filmic wash of colours in these works. For Nancy’s solo exhibition at Galerie pompom, the artist presents Slow Motion, an exhibition exploring the variable rates of time”

A passionate ambassador and collector of contemporary art, Nick sits on the Board of Directors of the Museum of Contemporary Art ( MCA ), The MCA’s Foundation Council, the advisory board of the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, and was part of the Commissioner’s Council for Australia at the 56th Venice Art Biennale

2019

SYDNEY

(UN)DIVIDED ATTENTION - a group exhibition curated by Stephanie Berlangieri

My works will be exhibited alongside fellow artists Amy Prcevich (VIC), Corporate Massage ( Artist due Ellen.gif & Vicky Power ) (NSW), & Finn Marchant.

Open 30 Jan 2019 6.00-8.00pm

at Wellington St. Projects

19-23 Wellington St.

Chippendale, Sydney, NSW 2008.

Photography: Docqment Photo

“Nancy Constandelia’s monochromatic paintings provide a captivating entry point to the exhibition, recalling the late modernist interest in the transformative encounter between painting and viewer… Constandelia’s work encourages the viewer to enter a space of spatio-temporal suspension - and thus a place of sustained, ‘deep’ attention- through her manipulation of colour and deftness of technique.… Constandelia posits a return to an apolitcal individualism, one that is founded on the bodily interaction between painting and viewer. Her painting The Blue of Distance iii (2018), located at the main sightline from the entrance to the gallery, is a dizzying vision in electric blue. As is typical in her work, Constandelia applies a gradient in her chosen colour, seamlessly transitioning from light to dark. This tonal shift produces an ambiguous pictorial space divorced from representational depiction. It is in this space that the viewer becomes absorbed, perceiving various optical (and affective) impressions based on the selection of colour. The intense brightness of The Blue of Distance iii recalls the glare of the computer screen, while Khora xxiv and xxv, two paintings in dark grey (their titles drawn from the Greek khora, referring to a space or receptable), have a subtler, more meditative effect. Both however, produce the enveloping sensation that Selz refers to, permitting a prolonged depth of engagement and attention”. - Stephanie Berlangieri, curator.

Excerpt from Berlangieri’s essay ‘(Un)divided Attention - New Individualisms in an Age of Distraction’.

P A R I S

Huge thanks to the Art Gallery of NSW for granting me the Moya Dyring Memorial Studio Scholarship to attend an artist residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France for July and August 2019. This residency was also supported by the NAVA NSW Artist Grant.

2018

MELBOURNE

EPHEMEROS - a solo exhibtion

Open 12 October - 27 October

Wed-Sat 12pm-5pm

at Five Walls

1/119 Hopkins Street

Footscray, Melbourne VIC 3011

SYDNEY

A selection of my works will be exhibited with Galerie pompom at the 2018 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair at Bay 21, D08 from 13-16 September 2018.

Showing alongside my works will be Genevieve Felix Reynolds, Caleb Shea and Vivian Cooper Smith.

New works will be exhibited daily.

For the full selection, please speak to Samantha Ferris at the booth on the day or contact her on 0430 318 438.

RATE OF CHANGE

Curated by James Gatt

Opens Friday 10 August 2018 6.00pm

10 August - 8 September

at COMA Gallery

137 Bayswater Rd, Rushcutters Bay 2011

“The outstanding exception to Hockney’s claim is the photographic practice of Hiroshi Sugimoto. His long-exposure photographs of seascapes and other subjects capture a more accurately human sense, or memory, of time and place, “It was my goal to visualise the ancient layer of human memory with the means of photography.” For Rate of Change, Nancy Constandelia has painted 22 gradated monochromes, which although painted, read much like Sugimoto’s photographs. The gradient in this instance is not only the pictorial resolution, but the very process – the durational quality – of making the work. Rather than blending black and white to achieve the tonal spectrums, Constandelia accrues diluted layers of black acrylic paint onto the surface, producing gradations in a manner far less contrived, and more attuned to the passage of time. For this reason, each of the 22 paintings is unique – each has a different rate of change – despite the evident consistencies of Constandelia’s process. It is in the subtle nuances differentiating each of the panels that we also realise the dynamism paramount to all of the works in the exhibition.” - James Gatt, Curator. 

BRISBANE

2018 CHURCHIE NATIONAL EMERGING ART PRIZE

Opens Friday 7 September 2018 6.00pm

8 September - 4 November 2018

at QUT Art Museum

2 George Street, Brisbane, QLD 4001

An annual exhibition that profiles new and emerging artists. It explores a broad range of vibrant contemporary art making, from new media and installation to more traditional mediums.

A short list of 35 artists, crossing a broad range of disciplines, have been selected as finalists for the 2018 prize from over 1000 entries.

The 2018 pre-selection panel consisted of Katherine Dionysius (QUT Art Museum Assistant Curator), Dr Chris Bennie (visual artist and lecturer at QCA Griffith University), Leah King-Smith (visual artist and lecturer in the School of Creative Practice QUT), and Vicky Leighton (Head of Art at Churchie).

Katherine Dionysius comments, “One of the great things about this prize is that entries are not restricted by medium or subject matter, and we are excited that the finalists this year represent a diverse cross-section of emerging art practices in Australia. The work includes explorations of culture, identity and the environment - from the playful to the powerful and deeply personal - as well as vibrant investigations into form and colour, and thoughtful meditations on surface and materiality.”

The 2018 prize winners will be determined by guest judge Lisa Havilah, director of Carriageworks, Sydney. The Major Prize and three Commendations will be announced at the official opening of the exhibition, open to the public, at QUT Art Museum on Friday 7 September 6 to 8 pm. The exhibition will remain open until 4 November and will feature artworks from each of the 35 finalists.

MELBOURNE

2018 GEELONG CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE

9 June - 19 August 2018

at Geelong Gallery

Little Malop Street, Geelong, VIC 3220

Showcasing the best of contemporary Australian painting practice, this $30,000 acquisitive award and biennial exhibition will feature 36 shortlisted works (chosen from 550 entries nationwide), by Natasha Bieniek, Seth Birchall,Amber Boardman, Andrew Browne, Jon Campbell,Nancy Constandelia, Yvette Coppersmith, Ann Debono, Troy Emery, Emily Ferretti, Patrick Francis,Nyarapayi Giles, Peter Graham, Camille Hannah,Katherine Hattam, Euan Heng, Gregory Hodge, Carissa Karamarko, Madeleine Kelly, Mason Kimber, Anna Kristensen, Darren McDonald, Laith McGregor, Fiona McMonagle, Amanda Marburg, Sam Martin, Tully Moore, Jan Murray, Louise Paramor, Sally Ross,Huseyin Sami, Andrew Taylor, Kate Tucker, Sharon West, Bradd Westmoreland and Alice Wormald.

Justin Paton, Head Curator, International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Rebecca Coates, Director, Shepparton Art Museum, joined Lisa Sullivan, Senior Curator, Geelong Gallery, in judging this year’s award.

ABSTRACTION TWENTY EIGHTEEN

25 April - 12 May 2018

Opening Friday 27th April 6.00pm - 8.00pm

at Five Walls Projects

Level 1/ 119 Hopkins Street, Footscray VIC 3011

Abstraction Twenty Eighteen is series of exhibitions that complement NGV’s The Field Revisited, by highlighting practising artists who continue to explore colours within geometric abstraction and collectively demonstrate the influences that the seminal Field exhibition of 1968 has on artists practising today.

Abstraction Twenty Eighteen will be exhibited across five of Melbourne's most important abstract and non-objective galleries and offers a selection of over 100 artists who are working within this genre.

SYDNEY

GROUP EXHIBITION AT HOME@735

Exhibiting alongside Anthony Cahill, Janet Haslett, Jenny Orchard, & Beccy Tait

9 May - 3 June 

Opening Wednesday 9th May 6.00-8.00pm

At Home@735 Gallery

735 Bourke Street, Redfern 2016

Opening Wednesday 9th May 6.00-8.00pm