Nicholas Currie
Gumai Giberra (Them mob are as big as mountains) 2025
steel, hessian, clay, cement, paint
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Nicholas Currie is a descendant of the Mulunjali Clan of Yugambeh people of Brisbane and Beaudesert and Kuku Yalanji people of the rainforest regions of Far North Queensland. His diverse artistic and curatorial practice spans abstract work on canvas to murals and contemporary art installations, exploring social, cultural, and personal identity themes. Currie notes of his practice: ‘I as an artist paint, perform and use my art to explore cultural and social histories, conversations and perspectives within my communities. My body is not only a tool for the application of material but as a subject, theme and reference to all aspects of my art. Labour with my art making is crucial to the forms that my mark making to create a visual vocabulary to themes of Indigeneity, emotional responses and larger community Values.’
On the central Lorne foreshore Currie has scaled up figures featured in his recent sculptures. He notes that 'my work comes from ideas of making, place and identity. The figures in Gumai Giberra (Them mob are as big as mountains) 2023 abstractly resemble torsos with customary paint applied loosely. These forms relate to family, friends, memories and the ideas of place and belonging within community and culture. Another strong line for the work is the present of the mark within the construction of the torsos you can see fingerprints, cracks and slip applied by hand.'
Currie completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne in 2022. Solo exhibitions include DOG painting and Candles, Futures Gallery, Melbourne (2023); Crying to Patsy Cline, Bus Projects, Melbourne (2023); I don't know how to swim, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne, (2022); and Un-sports-man-like, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne (2021). Group exhibitions include Fired Up: Stories Through Embers and Earth, Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne (2023); Remix, Montsalvat Barn Gallery (2022); KHS, Koorie Heritage Trust art show, Melbourne (2022); and ERINYS, Margaret Laurence Gallery (2021). Public works include Testing Grounds residency and performance at Victoria Market, Melbourne (2022).
Images: Gumai Giberra (Them mob are as big as mountains) 2023. Photo Christian Capurro (top); Nicholas Currie (bottom). Courtesy the artist.
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