Nadine Christensen

Biography

Born Traralgon, Australia, 1969

Education

2006

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007

• Nadine Christensen, Uplands Gallery, Prahran

2005

• Make Your Own Windows, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
• Fine and Mild, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2004

• It's Been a Long Time Longing (curated by Geraldine Barlow), NEW04, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
• A Specially Built Ruin, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, touring to Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell

2003

• Blueblocker Epic, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Making Eyes, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2002

• Nadine Christensen, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2001

• Fen, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

1999

• Fantastic Plan, 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space, Melbourne
• Glarefoil, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

1998

• Seismic Electric, Lovers, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

• Revolving Doors: an exhibition in memory of Blair Trethowan, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2006

• Bartertown (with Delphine Coindet, Scott Mitchell, Dane Mitchell, David Stamp, and DAMP, oragnised by Nadine Christensen), Uplands Gallery, Prahran
• Parallel Lives: Australian Painting Today (curated by Victoria Lynn), the inaugural Tarrawarra Museum of Art Biennial, Tarrawarra
• Silenzi (curated by Natalie King and Giovanna Zabotti), Prigioni de Palazzo Ducale, Venezia, Italy

2005

• Deep Purple (curated by Rozalind Drummond), Manning Clarke House, Canberra
• This & Other Worlds: Contemporary Australian Drawing (curated by Kirsty Grant), The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne
• Neo Folk (curated by Julian Holcroft), Lithuanian Club, Melbourne
• Six Orbits Around the Blue Moon, RAMP gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand
• Frieze (co-curated by Anna White and Sophie Knezic), Brown Street Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne
• A Portable Model Of (curated by Tristian Koening), Plimsol Gallery, Hobart, travelling to Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell

2004

• New04, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2003

• Everyday at Home, Any Time Away (with Delphine Coindet), Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• This Was the Future (curated by Zara Stanhope), Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2002

• Mutable Spaces, Metro Arts, Brisbane
• Into the Blue, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
• Octopus 3, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
• Kiosk, for the Oblique Trust, Christchurch, New Zealand

2001

• Something for the Ladies, Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne
• Painting: an Arcane Technology (co-curated by Bala Starr and Natalie King), Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
• Afterglow, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
• Diamonds in the Rough, a Video Vaudeville, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
• Unsigned Artists 2001 (curated by Samantha Comte and Max Delany0, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2000

• No Noise (curated by Max Delaney), Metro Arts, Brisbane
• Paintings Are Ace (curated by Clare Firth Smith), Linden Gallery, Melbourne
• Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
• Concrete Livingroom (curated by Bridget Crone), 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne
• Mayonnaise, 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne
• Museum Magoo (curated by Graham Ramsey), Art Space, Glasglow, Scotland

1999

• Make It Yourself, 200 Gertrude Street annual studio artists show, Melbourne
• Same as It Ever Was (curated by Clare Firth Smith), 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
• Handle with Care (curated by Lisa Young and Meagan Evans), Annual Community and Public Sector Union Work Cover Exhibition, Steps, Melbourne
• Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, School of Art, Melbourne
• One Hour Photo, 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space, Melbourne

1998

• Liquid Evasions, Plimsol Gallery, Hobart
• Institutional Transit Lobby, 200 Gertrude Street annual studio artists show, Melbourne
• Discrete Projects @ Arts Victoria, Arts Victoria, Melbourne
• Atopic Detail, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne
• Trappings, Temple, Melbourne
• Special Issue* (for the Melbourne International Fashion Festival), 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space, Melbourne
• Silent Fall (curated by Malcom Bywaters), Linden emerging artists program, Melbourne
• In Search of Booty (with Elizabeth Hewitt - for the Next Wave Festival), Mildura Art Centre, Mildura

Publications

2005

• Editor, Chapter 3, 'Squat and Decorate', Volumeeverything 5, CLUBSproject @ Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
• Curator, with James Lynch, Six orbits around the blue moon, RAMP Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand
• Artist page, Pataphysics Magazine, Publishing Issue, ed. Yanni Florence and Leo Edelstein
• Artist page, A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gertrude 20th Anniversary Publication, p. 29, ed. Charlotte Day. Publisher: Black Ink

2004

• Editor, with Starlie Geikie and Laressa Kosloff, 24 hour love, for CLUBS in the Pines, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland
• Coordinator, CLUBS in the Pines, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland
• Artist page, Volumeeveryone, CLUBSproject (artist publication)

2003

• Artist page, Volumeeveryone, CLUBSproject (artist publication)
• Guest Curator, Last turn on the left, emerging artists from rural Victoria, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne

2001

• Curator, with Paul Sloan, Diamonds In The Rough: a Video Vaudeville, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
• Artist page, Rubik, Issue 11, ed. James Lynch and Julia Gorman (artist publication)

2000

• Curator, Shelf Space, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

1999

• Writer and collaboration with Susan Stam, Handle with care, co-curators: Lisa Young and Megan Evans, Steps Gallery
• Editor, Rubik, the Fantastic Plan Issue, Issue 8, (artist publication)

1998 – 2000

• Curator, Slide Space, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne/Canberra School of Art, Canberra

1998

• Artist page, Rubik, Issue 1 (artist publication)

Bibliography

2006

• Robert Nelson, Slick smoothed and syylised paintings leave the angst of yesteryear behind, review, The Age Newspaper, p17, August 30th
• Victoria Lynn, Parallel Lives, catalogue essay, Tarra Warra Biennial, Tarra Warra Museum of Art
• Interview with Natalie King, Catalogue for Silenzi, Prigioni di Palazzo Ducale, Venezia, Italy
• Lisa Benson, Orbiting, review, Natural Selection Magazine, Issue 5 www.naturalselection.org.nz

2005

• Kirsty Grant, This and Other Worlds, Catalogue Essay, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne
• Karen Burns, Frieze, catalogue essay, Frieze, School of Art Gallery, RMIT University
• Ashley Crawford, Nadine Christensen:Fine and Mild, review, The Age Newspaper, Preview, p38, May 29
• Charlotte Hallows, Nadine Christensen and Kate Rhode, UN magasine, Issue 3

2004

• Kit Wise, New 04, review, Frieze, Issue 88, September
• Cliff Burtt, New 04, review, Artlink, Vol 24, No 2
• Robert Nelson, New 04, review, The Age Newspaper, May 5th
• Lisa Byrne, Introduction, A specially built ruin, Canberra Contemporary Art Spaces
• Zara Stanhope, Love Shack, catalogue essay, A Specially Built Ruin, Canberra Contemporary Art Spaces
• Chloe Kinsman, Its been a long time longing, catalogue essay, NEW04, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
• Geraldine Barlow, How to find the frontier, catalogue essay, NEW04, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

2003

• Andy Alexander, Everyday at home, any time away, Catalogue essay, Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles
• Marie Pejus, Perfect Sky, Catalogue Essay, Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles
• Lucinda Strahan, Active Art, review, The Age Newspaper, A3 section, p12. October 16
• Lindsay Dunbar, Nadine Christensen/Delphine Coindet, review, p. 472, Art and Australia
• Zara Stanhope, All the things you are, essay, p.70, This was the future…, Heide Museum of Modern Art,

2002

• Smart Art, Article, Australian Art Collector, Alexie Glass, Issue 22, Oct-Dec.
• Mutable Spaces, Catalogue essay, Josh Milani.
• Nadine Christensen, essay, Andrea Tu.
• Nadine Christensen, Catalogue essay, for Into the Blue, Andrew McQualter Still time: temporality, transformation and the possibilities of distraction,
• Catalogue essay, Octopus 3, Charlotte Day.
• A heady experience, Review The Age, 13th July, Robert Nelson.

2001

• Nadine Christensen, Wallpaper Magazine, Rachel Anthony.
• Suspended Animation, Catalogue essay, Bala Starr/Natalie King.
• ‘Painting an Arcane Technology”, Review, Anna Clabburn. The Australian, Friday 16th February.
• ‘Painting: reinvigorating the arcane’, Review, Chris Reid Real Time 42 April-May p.33.
• ‘Judging the Masters’ The Age Friday 7th, Gabriella Coslovich September, Today p.1-2.
• Rubik #11, Artist book of Drawings.

2000

• ‘Concrete Livingroom’ catalogue essay, Bridget Crone.
• ‘No Noise’ Review, Eyeline 42, Peter Anderson.
• ‘Making connections at the Metro’, Review. The Courier Mail, April 19th, Peter Anderson.
• ‘No Noise’, Review LIKE, No 12, Mayann Lynch.
• No Noise: Light, Camera, Action, catalogue essay. ‘No Noise’, Max Delaney.

1999

• And you may ask yourself: How do I work this, Catalogue essay ‘Same as it ever was’, Daniel Palmer.
• Art right now 2, Australian Contemporary Visual . Artists CD rom Discovery Media.

1998

• Rubik #1 Artist book of drawings.
• ‘Equipotential Space’ Review. Art and Text 62, D.J. Huppatz.
• Talk 35, Interview, Sandra Bridie.
• Silent Fall, Catalogue essay, Brendan Wall.

1997

• ‘Gals Work’ new acquisitions catalogue essay, Robyn McKenzie.
• Feeling Machines catalogue essay, Stephen O’Connell.

Collections

• Maquarie Bank Limited, Art Collection
• Joyce Nissan Collection, Melbourne
• La Trobe Regional Gallery
• Monash University Collection
• National Gallery of Victoria

Awards and Prizes

2006

• Australian Postgraduate Award, Monash University, Melbourne

2003

• Export and Touring Grant, Arts Victoria

2002

• Australia Council Development Grant, Los Angeles Studio
• Pat Corrigan Artists Grant

1998

• Pat Corrigan Artists Grant
• C.P.L Digital work prize, Center for Contemporary Photography

1998 – 2001

• 200 Gertrude Street Studio Residency, Melbourne