Nic Mason - Artist Statement
My art practice is anchored in my background in resource and land management and my current rich domestic life with family and creatures including Nim and Mr Barry Fox my four legged friends I live and work in regional Australia in Wiradjuri Country.
I value working within interdisciplinary projects such as the Art of Threatened Species project, a collaboration with Orana Arts and the Office of Environment and Heritage. Through this project my research process included fieldwork with specialists working in a threatened brush-tailed rock-wallaby population site and going behind the scenes at the Australian Museum. Artist residencies have additionally enabled me to connect with people and places adding new ideas and ways of working to my art practice.
My everyday is reflected in my bodies of work where domestic scenes intersect with ecological themes. My investigations into ways in which still life could be employed within a painting practice to encourage viewers towards an alertness to ecological relationships were buoyed through my Honours Year studies at University of New South Wales, Art & Design (COFA) following post graduate studies in the painting section of the Australian National University.
I am interested in the possibilities of enticing new ways of thinking through connection and engagement with art.
I value working within interdisciplinary projects such as the Art of Threatened Species project, a collaboration with Orana Arts and the Office of Environment and Heritage. Through this project my research process included fieldwork with specialists working in a threatened brush-tailed rock-wallaby population site and going behind the scenes at the Australian Museum. Artist residencies have additionally enabled me to connect with people and places adding new ideas and ways of working to my art practice.
My everyday is reflected in my bodies of work where domestic scenes intersect with ecological themes. My investigations into ways in which still life could be employed within a painting practice to encourage viewers towards an alertness to ecological relationships were buoyed through my Honours Year studies at University of New South Wales, Art & Design (COFA) following post graduate studies in the painting section of the Australian National University.
I am interested in the possibilities of enticing new ways of thinking through connection and engagement with art.
