About
I completed my Master of Fine Arts (Hons) at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Auckland, New Zealand in 2008.
My current work explores painting and sculpture as a reverse operation. Rather than controlling materials to a determined end I set experiments and allow them to run; gesture is deputised to physical forces giving paint the freedom to perform its own act. Solidifying and deciphering paint’s fluid trace has become the focus of the work.
Paint may perform with integrity, but this is not to say with predictability. Although the work derives its logic from the opposed mechanics of gravity and viscosity, an ostensibly formal inquiry, often the outcome is highly inventive, subject to curious intricacies and aberrances.
Recent Exhibitions / publications:
Selected Exhibitions:
2014 National Contemporary Art Award
2012 Call and Response – Curated by Kim Paton at Waikato Arboretum Sculpture park
2011 Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award
2011 Waikato Society of Arts National Painting and Printmaking Award
2010 Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award
2010 Waikato Society of Arts National Painting and Printmaking Award
2010 Molly Morpeth Canady Art Award Whakatane
2003 Trustbank Waikato National Contemporary Art Award
Awards
2010 Waikato Society of Arts National Painting and Printmaking Award – Merit Award
2008 2008 Master of Fine Arts Prize, Whitecliffe College, Auckland
Group Exhibitions:
2019 Tutors’ Exhibition – Estuary Arts Centre, Orewa
2013 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner- Parallel Universe, One Day Wonder Series, Pearce Gallery, Whitecliffe College, Auckland
2011 Under the Ivory Tower - Draw Inc, Hamilton
2011 A recipe for personal pleasure - Hastings City Art Gallery
2010 Drawing: For the Given Value of Drawing - Blue Oyster Dunedin
2010 Drawer in a Chronological Manor- Rm Project Space Auckland
2010 Dimensions Variable - Chartwell Gallery Hamilton
2010 La Mezz Gallery Drawing Show 2010 - La Mezz Gallery Hamilton
2009 Various Constructions and Drawings -Chartwell Gallery Hamilton
2008 Running with Paint MFA Graduating Show - Randolph Street Gallery Auckland
2008 Cluster- Chartwell Gallery Hamilton
2008 Delineate -Chartwell Gallery Hamilton
Solo Exhibitions:
2018 CERULEAN/AQUA/GOLD – Emma Jean Gallery, Silverdale, Auckland
2014 Exhibition of photography, drawings and paintings at BoConcept, BLOC, Auckland
2009 Pink Gravity -La Mezz Gallery Hamilton
2008 Running with Paint -New Friends Contemporary Art Space, Hamilton
2005 Nell Nutsford-New Work- Gallery East, Hamilton
Presentations/Publications
Nutsford, N. Artist in Space (2012) PechaKutcha presentation, Hamilton //www.youtube.com/watch?v=brUTB49Jqj0
Nutsford, N. Inside Painting (2011) Guest presentation at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland:
Nutsford, N. Painting in Reverse (2009) Guest presentation at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland
In a Chronological Manor: Rm: Drawer in a Chronological Manor, Blue Oyster: Drawing (for the given value of drawing). Joint publication by Whitecliffe College of Art and Design
A recipe for personal pleasure Joint publication by A Chronological Manor
Unpublished:
Nutsford, N. The Hitchhiker: Plastic Destinations (2007) Dissertation, Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland