About Us
basketry
oil painting
oil painting
my favorite recycled basket! Art made from old electric cords! Don't we have a lot of them lying around? I hate to think of them all in a landfill! Instead, I have baskets made of electric cords to help storage in my art studio. A win for me and the environment. I have even made paintings with electric cords!
oil painting
oil painting
oil painting
I'm thinking about both my grandfathers fighting in WW1. It must have something to do with RUSSIA invading, the Middle East, where at one point they both were fighting. Harold was the man in charge, Oswald was just a gunner in the same unit. They snuck time together when they were off duty. Two Jewish men, fighting for Australia, with
I'm thinking about both my grandfathers fighting in WW1. It must have something to do with RUSSIA invading, the Middle East, where at one point they both were fighting. Harold was the man in charge, Oswald was just a gunner in the same unit. They snuck time together when they were off duty. Two Jewish men, fighting for Australia, with horses in Egypt. Lots of food for thought for art making in my art studio. Paintings in oil paint, watercolor
watercolour
oil painting
watercolour
I love teaching watercolor, hand mending, fitting your dress to you, sewing, quilting, paper making, and making do! I feel the need to extend the use of clothing, and household items. in my art studio, I have everything from buttons, sewing machines, a serger/overlocker, easels, paper-making equipment, old-fashioned Millinery equipment
My Background
My Inspiration
My Background
STITCH IT. Stitching is an artistic medium. All mark-making is my thing! I make marks with stitches on hand-made paper, canvas, fabric, felt, paintings, and tea bags, Anything from thread, paint, pastels, leaves, and just anything else that leaves a mark in paintings. I fill my art studio with attention-grabbing articles of a thousand different kinds.
My Mediums
My Inspiration
My Background
A sunny day at the beach in watercolor! Painting is immediate and I love doing that in my art studio! I like to paint in watercolor and oil paint or draw with pastels, charcoal, or thread!
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
I had a fun time painting these black sneakers in my art studio! Something different for a fundraiser. I love the use of the line used like stitching because my favorite thing at the moment is DO IT!
STITCH IT! Make it art!
Nicolette's cv
CV
Nicolette Benjamin Black ARTIST
14 Kinsman Drive, Murrumbateman.
NSW.
Australia. 2582.
ABN. 35 688 339 016
email: njblacky@gmail.com
nicolettebenjaminblack.com ]
Diploma - Fashion CIT 1973-76
BA ANU NITA -1997-2000
1988 Certificate Weaving and Textiles Yass TAFE
1973-76 Diploma Fashion CIT
Professional Experience
Teaching in private studio 2013- present
2021 19 May-23 June, Belconnen Art Gallery, Watercolour Term 1 and 2
2019 Watercolour for MS, MS Gloria McKerrow House, Deakin, ACT.
Belconnen Art Gallery Beginners Watercolour Thursday Mornings 10 am-12.30 pm
Art Studio, Murrumbateman NSW Paper-making classes
Monday morning - Watercolour classes
Wednesday mornings - Sewing with Nicolette on Wednesday evenings
Teaching 2013 Belconnen Art Gallery, “Starting Point”
Thursday Mornings 10 am-1 pm Studio, Murrumbateman NSW
Saturday Morning Children’s Art Class
Experimenting with Art, Wednesday mornings March-September 2012
Workshops for Goulburn Regional Gallery-textiles, High Schools, year 11 and 12 July 04 –Feb 05
Graduate in Residence, (teaching) papermaking Studio,
ANU School of Art, Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT Australia Education 1997-2000
COLLECTIONS
Australian National Archives,
KPMG, Private Collections (Australia and international)
Teaching Experience
2007/8 Teaching workshops for Goulburn Regional Gallery for High School student groups
2005 Graduate in Residence ANU School of Art
AWARDS AND ACQUISITIONS
2010 Finalist, ‘Through the Looking Glass’, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery
2009 Finalist, Off the Wall, Sydney
2008 Finalist, Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting
2007 Finalist, Cowra Festival Art Awards - special mention
2006 Finalist, Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale - food and wine
2005 Finalist, Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting
2005 Craft-in-Site, Craft ACT
2000 Emerging Artists Support Scheme Acquisition Award
005-09 Travelling Exhibition “Just add water” Australian National Archives
2007 SOLO EXHIBITION ANCA DICKSON ACT “dialogues” GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014- 27 June/July After the studio fire YassArts, Oddfellows Hall Yass
2013 19 July -4 August “Intersections” –Belconnen Art Gallery
2013 1-24 March “Rhyme and Reason” Belconnen Art Gallery
2013 March “Then and Now” Gallery on Track, Goulburn,
2013 Aug30 –28 Sep Goulburn Regional Gallery 30 years Birthday Exhibition
2012 May/June “Art Down Under”, Agora Gallery Chelsea, New York, USA
2011 Dec- Jan 2012 “That’s not how you make porridge”, Goulburn Regional Gallery
2011 November On the Edge, Mostra D’ARTE Internazionale, Bologna, Italy
2011 May/June Art Down Under, Agora Gallery Chelsea, New York, USA
2010 Earth Connections, Belconnen Arts Centre Gallery, ACT
2008 Through the Eye, Regional Textiles, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW 2008
Countryscapes, The Gunnery, Sydney,
NSW 2008 Peripheral Vision, Goulburn Regional Gallery
2008 Dialogues 2, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Heads Up 2 The Front Gallery, Lyneham ACT
2006 Nature’s Moments, Art Moment Gallery, Bondi Sydney
2006 Two points of View, The Front Gallery, Lyneham ACT
2006 Japanese Exchange Exhibition, The Artist Shed, Queanbeyan
2006 making do two, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery NSW
2005 Heads Up, the Art of Millinery, The Front Gallery
2005 Curses – a dual installation, Goulburn Regional Gallery
2005 Curses – a dual installation, Strathnairn Homestead Gallery, ACT
2005 Unearthing Australia’s Finest - Canberra Artists Awards, Italo-Australian Club ACT
2003 Inaugural Contemporary Art Space Prize. Canberra Contemporary Art Space.
2003 H2003 School of Art Foyer Gallery
2003 Ceremonial vessels for the drinking if water, Canberra Centre, Civic, ACT
2000 Graduation Exhibition NITA Gallery ANU
REVIEWS AND MEDIA INTERVIEWS
2013 February Yass Tribune
2012 Australian Art Collector
2011 Interview on Agora exhibit (New York), ABC local Radio (666 Canberra)
2011 Art is Spectrum, Vol. 26, November
2011 Review of Agora exhibit (New York), Yass Tribune
2010 Art is Spectrum, Vol. 24, November,
2009 Australian Art Market Report, Issue 34,
2008 Kerry Ann Cousins, “Landscapes of Vision”, Canberra Times,
15 June Lyn Mills, “Teabags of expression”, Canberra Times,
20 June Sasha Grishin, “Dreaming of a teabag”, Canberra Times,
22 June 2005 Miranda Tetlow, “In A Shade of English Breakfast”, for TRIPLE J Arts Crew, www.theprogram.net.au/features