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Trevor Nickolls

Trevor Nickolls (1949 - 2012) was active/lived in Australia.  Trevor Nickolls is known for Aboriginal art.

Trevor Nickolls was one of the pioneers of what has become known as the Indigenous urban art movement.  He was the first Aboriginal artist, along with Rover Thomas (c.1926-1998), to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1990.  Based in Adelaide, Nickolls graduated from the South Australian School of Art in 1972, majoring in painting, and gained a post-graduate diploma from the Victorian College of Art in 1980.  In 1981 he was the Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra. 

From Dreamtime to Machinetime, at the Canberra Theatre Centre Gallery in 1978 was Nickolls’ first solo exhibition.  It coalesced ideas in painting that were to become the recurring theme of Nickolls’ oeuvre, the alienation, discrimination and displacement felt by Aboriginal people living within a society where they are in the minority, and the search for identity.  In 1984 Nickolls was represented in the ground breaking exhibition Koori Wally Caruana   ...  [Displaying 1013 of 3631 characters.]  Artist bio

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