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| Nicola Smith and Elise Harmsen |
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| Nicola Smith, Je tu il elle, after Chantal Akerman, 2016, oil on linen, 45 x 60 cm |
Nicola Smith is a painter living on Gadigal Land. She makes paintings in watercolour and oil looking to scenes from the cinema and from everyday life. From 2015 to 2024 Nicola was represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery. She has shown at Artspace, AGNSW, ACCA, AGSA, NAS Gallery, Firstdraft, 55 Sydenham Rd, KNULP, and MacDowell, USA.
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| Nicola Smith, I waited for me to believe in god, 2020, oil on gesso board, 25 x 35 cm |
Elise Harmsen is a photomedia and performance artist who lives on Cammeraygal Land. Her experience working with archives drives her interest in the nuances of digital images and their relationship to memory, time, and space. From 2014 to 2018 Elise was a resident artist at 55 Sydenham Rd where she ran the adjoining studios. In 2022, she won the HIDDEN Films Award and in 2020 she was a finalist in the National Photography Prize, MAMA Albury NSW.
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| Elise Harmsen, Rests are moving silences, 2022, Dual video projection onto painted glass, installed at Verge Gallery, Darlington. |
“ ... During our residency at Gunyah we will be planning our fourth exhibition together, to be staged late in 2025. Elise will be making a film, and Nicola will be making watercolours from Harmsen’s film. Our work will also be informed by the architecture of the house, and its surrounds. Having shared studio space in the past, and spent time making shows together, we have a simpatico way of working. We’re looking forward to being surrounded by the sounds of birdsong and lapping water ... ”
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| Elise Harmsen, Echo, 2022, Film stills after Antonioni's L'Avventura, at Knulp Camperdown, in Hear the echo... Why is it empty? with Nicola Smith, Photograph: Alex Gawronski. |
Follow on their residency on Instagram @gunyahartists, Nicola Smith @hellonicola and Elise Harmsen @esusannahh.
