Trevor Nickolls
Trevor Nickolls (8 June 1949 – 29 September 2012[1]) was an Australian artist, who identified as an Australian Aboriginal artist, known for his high-key acrylic paintings incorporating 'dot-painting' and symbolism. He was recognised for the concurrent themes exploring industrial and spiritual societal experience, and European Australian and Indigenous Australian themes, which he referred to as "Machine time and Dream Time".[2] In 2013 he posthumously won the Blake Prize for his work Metamorphosis.[3][4]
Early life and education[]
Trevor Nickolls was born in 1949 in Port Adelaide, a suburb of Adelaide in the state of South Australia, Australia.
References[]
- ^ "Trevor Nickolls". AGSA - Online Collection. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
- ^ Beier, Ulli. (1985). Dream time - machine time : the art of Trevor Nickolls. Nickolls, Trevor, 1949-, Aboriginal Artists Agency. Bathurst, N.S.W.: Robert Brown & Associates in association with the Aboriginal Artists Agency. ISBN 0949267139. OCLC 28991373.
- ^ Mendelssohn, Joanna. "Trevor Nickolls' win shows the Blake Prize is unorthodox, again". The Conversation. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
- ^ Galvin, Nick (2013-10-17). "Posthumous Blake Prize winner Trevor Nickolls' eerie influence". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
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