Booloo/Perth Based
Andrew Nicholls is a Booloo/Perth-based artist, writer and curator. While primarily drawing-based, his practice also incorporates ceramics, photography, performance and video, in addition to expansive site-responsive curatorial projects.
Andrew has exhibited and undertaken residencies in Australia, Canada, China, Italy, across Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States, most recently a thematic residency at the Banff Centre, Canada and a major solo exhibition for the 2024 Perth Festival.
His work is represented in collections including Artbank, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings. Nicholls has undertaken commissions for organisations in Australia and the United States, most notably a $250,000 ceiling mural for the City of Perth Library, and has curated exhibitions for institutions including the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
From 2012-2024 he was Senior Curator at arts organisation FORM, which allowed him extensive curatorial experience across Western Australia’s regions. He is currently Senior Consultant and Strategist at Walk Through Walls, with a particular focus on regional community development. His work is represented by Art Collective WA (Perth) and .M Contemporary (Sydney), and he has been Chairman of Gotham Studios (Australia’s 3rd-oldest artist-run-initiative) since 2017.
Image credit: Photograph by Rita Taylor, courtesy of the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity.
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