04/09/2026
Future exhibition: Nicole O’Loughlin
Nature/Nurture
16 October – 7 November 2026
Nature/Nurture is a body of work that continues an exploration into Nicole’s relationship to the place she lives, located in a valley, within a valley in the foothills of kunanyi.
Working across textiles and mixed media the artist creates labour intensive textural responses to the world around her that blur the lines between garden and bushland, local and global, political, social and environmental, and how the lives we live interconnect.
The exhibition will include hand embroidered portraits of trees, devoid of the substrate of cloth, suspended by warp threads into the frames. Alongside femmage works that draw from the aesthetic and narrative traditions of Flemish tapestries to create hybrid mythologies.
O’Loughlin’s work is held in national, state, and private collections. She has undertaken residencies in Argentina, China, and on the remote, windswept Maatsuyker Island. Her work has been selected for significant national art prizes, where she has received Lester Prize Highly Commended (2019), Hadley’s Packers Prize (2022), and Paul Guest People’s Choice award (2020), and in 2023 she won the Henry Jones Art Prize mixed media category.
