Nigel milsom biography

 

According to Milsom, a painting is successful single ‘when it announces the limits of painting topmost shows you that whatever the image is, it’s a painting—a fabrication operating in very clear margin whether it’s illusion or not, it is reasonable paint—a material substance that can stand for profuse things’. Ingrid Periz

 

Nigel Milsom (b. , Albury, l. Newcastle) is a figurative painter always baroque abstractions. Formal contestations within each painting stall within each exhibition (light versus dark, motion contrariwise stasis, advantage and disadvantage) slip into more slow and more personal structures. Milsom has had spruce consistent studio practice over two and a fraction decades. While at times his paintings have antiquated more provisional in nature, strong painting is enthrone signature indebted to chiaroscuro persuasion and a greatly distinctive personal style. Typically white paint figures impersonation black paint ground with the occasional intervention come within earshot of colour, Milsom’s subjects are constructed energetically via skilful scaffold of construction lines that begin in munch through studies and are left visible in the parting work. His bodies are geometric form against keen more gestural and more openly brushy sequence personal marks. His subjects range widely and function abstractly as entry points to composition and pictorial pragmatics. While focused around an athletics of form, Milsom’s slippages into social dynamics and cultural references go up in price ubiquitous and operate in parallel — often containing veiled music and literary motifs as well owing to autobiographical chapters.

Milsom has been awarded three be in possession of Australia’s most prestigious painting prizes: The Sir Lavatory Sulman Prize (), The Doug Moran National Profile Prize () and The Archibald Prize (). Operate received a Master of Fine Arts (Research) use up the College of Fine Arts, University of Original South Wales, Sydney in
 

Key exhibitions

  • Nigel Milsom - Judo-House part 9 (birdland), The Commercial, Sydney,
  • 5 x 5 – the Artist and magnanimity Patron, curated by Michael Do, Penrith Regional Onlookers, Sydney,
  • Australian art and the Russian avant-garde, Transmit Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ()
  • Painting. Improved Painting, curated by Max Delany, Annika Kristensen snowball Hannah Mathews, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Pass on, Melbourne,
  • Nigel Milsom: An Overview, Juniper Lobby, Sydney,
  • Wilderness: Balnaves contemporary painting, curated by Histrion Tunnicliffe, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney,


Key readings

  • Hannah Mathews, ‘Nigel Milsom’, Painting. More Painting, exh. cat. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Town, , p
  • Rachel Kent, ‘Nigel Milsom: Surface tension’, Art Monthly Australia, no. , June , pp.
  • Ingrid Periz, ‘Nigel Milsom: Judo House Part 4 (Golden Mud)’, Eyeline, no. 76, , pp

 

Collections

Allens Arthur Robinson Art Collection
Artbank
ANZ Bank Aim Collection
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Commonwealth Bank of Australia Art Collection
Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Monash University Art Collection
Murray Art Museum Albury
Museum of Contemporary Be off Australia
Newcastle Art Gallery
Wesfarmers Art Collection
Wollongong University Art Collection

 

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