I am a visual artist based in Australia, but currently working in Brooklyn; while in the States I am interested in connecting with male models to produce drawn and photographic works. My official biography is as follows:

Andrew Nicholls is an Australian/British artist, writer, and curator whose practice engages with the sentimental, camp, and other historically-marginalised aesthetics, and traces the historical recurrence of particular aesthetic motifs.

While primarily drawing-based, his practice also incorporates ceramics, photography, installation, performance, and filmmaking. He particularly draws inspiration from heritage sites and museum collections, and has coordinated and participated in residencies at locations including Greenough Hamlet (Australia’s third-most-significant heritage site), Spode China (at that time the UK’s longest-running ceramics factory still based in its original location), Midland Railway Workshops (the southern hemisphere’s most intact remaining Edwardian industrial site), the Freud Museum London, and the Royal Pavilion, Brighton.

Nicholls has exhibited across Australia, Southeast Asia, Italy and the United Kingdom, including solo exhibitions in Perth, Canberra and Sydney, Australia, and Plymouth, England. He has been the recipient of two Creative Development Fellowships from the Western Australian Department for Culture and the Arts, and undertaken commissions for several organisations in Western Australia and the United States, most recently a $250,000 ceiling mural for the City of Perth Library (scheduled for completion in late 2015).

Nicholls has curated projects for organisations including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Object Galleries Sydney, and has written for all of Australia’s major national arts publications. His work is represented in collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings, Brookfield Multiplex, Edith Cowan University and the City of Perth. He shows with Turner Galleries, Perth.

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