Trevor Nickolls
Trevor Nickolls
Media monster, 1975
Trevor Nickolls, Ngarrindjeri people, South Australia (1949 – 2012)
oil on canvas
76 x 76 cm
signed lower right, inscribed reverse: 2/ Media Monstur (sic)/ Trevor Nickolls
Exhibited: Australian Art Post-1960, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne, 18th May – 2nd June 1989, Cat. No. 26
Literature: Ulli Beier, Dream Time - Machine Time: The Art of Trevor Nickolls, Sydney, Robert Brown and Associates and Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd, 1985, pp 38, 39, colour illus. plate 4 as TV Culture
Australian Art Post-1960, Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Deutscher Gertrude Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, 18 May - 2 June 1989, illus. front page.
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Trevor Nickolls was born in Adelaide in 1949 and completed a Diploma of Fine Art at the South Australian School of Art in 1970. Subsequently, he taught art in various South Australian schools and in country New South Wales. In 1975 he moved to Canberra, and in 1980 he completed a Postgraduate Diploma of Fine Art in painting at the Victorian College of the Arts. Between 1982 and 1984 Nickolls held various positions in the Northern Territory Department of Education in Darwin before establishing short-term studios in Sydney and Melbourne and commencing a fulltime painting career In the 1990 Venice Biennale he was chosen to represent Australia with thirty paintings.
Nickolls enjoyed an illustrious career with over 50 group and solo shows across Australia, as well as several in Europe and the United States. His works are currently held in in all major Australian public collections and in the Rotterdam National Museum, Amsterdam.