Thursday

Painting, More painting, July 2016, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne

Installation view, artists N-Z

Jonathan Nichols, Atman, 2008, oil on linen, 60x71cm

Monday

Stamm 2015 — four published reviews and essays

(Stamm is an independent Melbourne writing collective formed to reciprocate contemporary art and related practices. Stamm published four online editions through 2015.)

Against nature—Charles Lim and ‘Sea State’
Charles Lim, Sea State, Singapore Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2015, Italy, 9 May – 22 November 2015.

Marco Fusinato, Spectral arrows, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, 30 August 2015

Terry Smith, ‘Contemporary Art and Contemporaneity: Reflections on Method, Review of Reviews (Part 1)’Discipline, 2013, no. 3, pp. 191–200.
Speculations on Anonymous Materials, introduction by Susanne Pfeffer & Armen Avanessian, participants Maurizio Ferraris, Markus Gabriel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Robin Mackay & Reza Negarestani, Fridericianum, Kassel, January 2014, YouTube, nos 1–7, viewed June 2015.
Boris Groys, Going Public, Sternberg Press, Berlin & New York, 2010.

Simryn Gill, Hugging the Shore, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, 27 March – 21 June.
I Know You Got Soul (Phoebe Collins-James, Liam Everett, Amy Feldman, JPW3, Kika Karadi, Hugo McCloud, Joshua Nathanson, Alex Ruthner, Diego Singh, Marianne Vitale and Jeff Zilm), Arndt, Singapore, 19 April — 21 June.

Thursday

Learning to leave, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, 6 June to 7 July 2014


Curated by Jonathan Nichols

Artists: Trevelyan Clay, Eliza Dyball, Tim Johnson, David Jolly, Michelle Mantsio, Moya McKenna, John Spiteri, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu and 3RRR (music-on-demand)

Catalogue texts: Jonathan Nichols, Anca Rujoiu, Quentin Sprague

Go to Catalogue PDF

Go to video installation view link at Vimeo


Nyapanyapa Yunupingu and John Spiteri

David Jolly and 3RRR (1 of 4)

Moya McKenna



Eliza Dyball





Tim Johnson

Michelle Mantsio




Tuesday

Stamm 2013 — 7 published reviews and interviews

(Stamm is an independent Melbourne writing collective formed to reciprocate contemporary art and related practices. Stamm published monthly through 2013 and its members were Trevelyan Clay, Jane Karnowski (production), Amita KirpalaniMichelle MantsioJonathan NicholsLisa RadfordQuentin SpraguePip Wallis and Suzette Wearne.)

A changed world: Singapore art 1950s—1970s, National Museum of Singapore, 25 October 2013 to 16 March 2014.

Jordan Marani, Xmas is a four-letter word, Daine Singer, Melbourne, 28 August – 5 October 2013.

John Aslanidis—New York noise
Sonic network no. 9, White Box, New York, April 2012, and dr. julius, Berlin, October 2011

Default: ‘Everyday rebellions’ and Frances Stark
Everyday rebellions, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 11 May – 8 June 2013.
Francis Stark: My best thing, the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, 20 March – 2 June 2013.
‘If you were to live here … a conversation with internationally renowned biennial curator Hou Hanru’, with Natalie King, Utopia@Asialink, Sydney Myer Asia Centre, Melbourne, 15 April 2013.


New13 (Benjamin Forster, Jess MacNeil, Alex Martinis Roe, Sanne Mestrom, Scott Mitchell, Joshua Petherick and Linda Tegg), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 16 March – 12 May 2013.


Atul DodiyaKochi–Muziris Biennale, Kochi, Kerala, India, 12 December 2012 – 13 March 2013.

Wednesday

'Frank Gardner', Lovers, Melbourne, 17—18 October 2013


Four paintings and a video (Vimeo)

Elaine de Kooning, 2013

Frank Gardner instal view, 2013

Frank Gardner instal view, 2013

Frank Gardner instal view, 2013

Go to video Untitled, 3min loop, 2103

Tuesday

Artwork — 'Frank Gardner', Lovers, Melbourne, 17—18 October 2013

All I know (about Saraswati),
2013, oil on linen, 76x37cm


Mannequin, 2013, oil
on linen, 82x39cm

Friday

Imprint: Growing up planned — Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 12 April to 18 May 2013


Artists: Rodger Benjamin, Tony Clark, Daniel Flood, Claire Freer, Clint Hurrell, Anthony Moulis, Jonathan Nichols, Bruce Reynolds

Curated by Virginia Rigney (Catalogue)


Go to vimeo link: automatic, 2013 (B+W video projection, 4.52 minute loop 




Untitled, 2013, installed ensemble: constructed free-standing
plaster wall, After Ibsen, 2013 (oil on linen, 66x51),  automatic, 2013 
(B+W video projection, 4.52 minute loop)


Untitled, 2013, installed ensemble: constructed free-standing plaster
wall, hedder/Schuttler 2013 (oil on linen, 66x51),  automatic, 2013
 (B+W video projection, 4.52 minute loop)