Nicol Sanders-O'Shea

(b. 1973)

Run 2014
Screen print and acrylic on board
1205mm x 745mm

Nicol Sanders-O'Shea resides in Tauranga, New Zealand. She has a MFA with first class honours from Elam School of Fine Arts and a post graduate diploma in Tertiary Teaching from AUT. She has taught in several tertiary art & design programmes including AUT, Elam and EIT, and is currently a Programme Manager and Senior Academic Staff member at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology. She was recently made the Chair of Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand to encourage and support the development of printmaking and printmakers nationally.

She has won several awards including the 2015 Waikato Society of the Arts Supreme Award for the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award. She was invited to participate in the Tr6 printmaking installation residency in Manhattan, New York in 2018. Her work has been selected for public gallery exhibitions in New Zealand: Pataka Museum, Hastings City Art Gallery, Gus Fisher Gallery, Tauranga Art Gallery, Calder and Lawson Gallery, Aratoi Museum and Waikato Museum. Her works are held in both public and private collections in New Zealand.

Run was exhibited in East 2014, the biennial exhibition of invited artists presented by the Hastings City Art Gallery in 2014/15. “Depicting the nuclear family in framed moments, Nicol uses appropriated old black and white stylised drawings to historicise her work. She has converted these images into a full colour pop aesthetic to refer to the effects of popular culture and the contemporary mediated context. In this diptych, the safe nuclear family of old are experiencing unsettling realities of our times.” Linda Tyler, Associate Professor Art History and Museums and cultural heritage at University of Auckland.

You can learn more about this artist at: www.nicolsandersoshea.co.nz or follow her on Instagram @nsandersoshea

Artwork purchased from the artist