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About
Nic Mason is a visual artist who primarily paints and draws in her art practice. She lives and works in regional Australia near Bathurst in Wiradjuri Country. In 2024 her work was awarded the Early Career Art Award at the Grace Cossington Smith Art Award, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery and her work won the Inaugural Interior Art Prize, Weswal Gallery. Her work has been selected for numerous other national art exhibitions and prizes including both the S. H. Ervin 2023 and 2021 Salon des refusés (alternate Archibald portrait) and 2021 Salon des refusés (alternate Wynne landscape) exhibition. Nic's practice has been propelled by a number of residencies including her 2019 Bundanon Artist in Residence program through Bundanon Trust. She has created bodies of work for a total of eight solo exhibitions, participated in four two person exhibitions and numerous group shows since Nic's first solo exhibition, WILD in Cowra Regional Art Gallery in 2016. This exhibition followed winning the 2015 Central West Regional Art Award, through Cowra Regional Art Gallery. Her works have been exhibited in a number of other regional galleries including a solo exhibition Cycle in Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in 2022 and group exhibitions in Orange Regional Gallery, Western Plains Cultural Centre and Hazelhurst Gallery. Her work is richly informed by her background in conservation and land management and influenced by her domestic life. In the middle of 2016 she resigned from her employment position in the conservation and land management sector to focus on her art practice and to commence studies in the painting workshop at the Australian National University. Nic has been listed on the Dean's List for Academic Excellence for her 2019 Honours Year at the University of New South Wales Art & Design. |
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Acknowledgement of Country
I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Wiradjuri elders past, present and emerging, who are the traditional owners of the land where I live and work.
I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Wiradjuri elders past, present and emerging, who are the traditional owners of the land where I live and work.