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Nic Mason is an emerging artist in regional Australia.
She has been selected as a finalist in numerous national awards including the 2018 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize, 2018 The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Award, 2018 Fleurieu Biennale, 2018, 2017 and 2016 Calleen Art Award, 2017 Footscray (Tertiary) Art Prize, 2017 and 2016 Brisbane Art Prize and the 2016 Korea Australia Arts Foundation Art Award. She has been awarded several awards including the 2015 Central West Regional Art Award, through Cowra Regional Art Gallery. This lead to her first solo exhibition WILD in Cowra Regional Art Gallery. Within twelve months she held her second solo exhibition STILL in her home town of Bathurst through Tablelands Artists Cooperative Gallery. She is richly informed by her background in science and she is interested in the possibilities of enticing new ways of thinking through connection and engagement with art. After attaining a Science degree she relished a twenty-year career in the conservation and land management sector. In the middle of 2016 she resigned from her employment position in this sector to focus on her art practice in a full-time capacity and to commence post graduate studies at the Australian National University. Nic is optimistic about ongoing learning and creating work that enables meaning to resonate over time and place. |
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