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NERINA NASCELLE
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| Yubi-sa - Grace, Mixed Media and Obi on Canvas 142 cm2 |
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| Hatsu Butsu - Eight Buddhas, 75 x 150cm, 2009 1 |
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| EXHBITIONS |
2009
Collector’s
Exhibition Contemporary
Art Society The Steps
Gallery Carlton, VIC, Australia
2008
Untitled Group Exhibition Kazari Collector Prahran,
Melbourne
2006
The Nature of Things Fitzroy Gallery
Fitzroy, Melbourne 2005
Nine X Five Art
Streams Gallery Warrandyte, Victoria 2005
Shrine Fitzroy
Gallery Fitzroy 2004
Movement Within the People Eltham Art
Space Eltham, Victoria 2003
Visualising
Pure
Realms
Duo exhibition with Balinese artist
Eltham Art
Space Eltham, Victoria 2002
Meditative
Paintings
Nerina
Lascelles and Emma Samin Lovegrove’s
Winery Cottlesbridge, Victoria 2001
Mama
Serpentine
A
cry in the Wilderness
Dudley
House Bendigo, Victoria 2000
Meditative Thoughts Eltham Art
Space Eltham, Victoria 1999
Three
Eltham
Art Space Eltham, Victoria 1998
Review
Eltham
Art Space Eltham, Victoria 1998
Journey & Myth Mair
Street Gallery Ballarat, Victoria 1996
Emergence Warrandyte
Art Space Warrandyte, Victoria 1993
Post Graduate Exhibition Ballarat
Fine Art Gallery Ballarat, Victoria |
| BIOGRAPHY | Nerina is an accomplished
Melbourne Artist who has been exhibiting in Australia and
internationally for over 20 years. Her paintings are part of private
collections in Australia, Singapore, UK, America and Japan. She is
currently an artist in residence at Dunmoochin in Cottlesbridge. "In her philosophy, Nerina Lascelles starts with the proposition that the role of the artist of to depict the sacred. It is the sacred things in the art of other traditions and cultures that primarily inspires Lascelles' art practice.Nerina’s most recent influences have been drawn from travel to Japan. These paintings consist of a pastiche of origami paper and fragments of kimonos along with gold and silver leaf, acrylic paint, bitumen and encaustic wax. All these materials have been combined to create works that reflect the antique objects that inspire them while standing on their own as objects of beauty” Peter Dougherty - Arts Editor, Leader Newspapers, Melbourne. |
| ARTIST'S STATEMENT |
The title of this exhibition ‘Sonzai’
(Japanese for ‘Existence’) In the Western thought, existence is the world we are aware of through our senses.
Materialism
holds that the only thing that exists is matter that all
things are composed of material, and all phenomena are the result of
material
interactions. In other words, matter is the only substance. In
Eastern philosophy, on the other hand, "impermanence"
describes existence. In reality there is no thing that ultimately
ceases to
exist; only the appearance of a thing ceases as it changes from one
form to
another. The philosophical meaning of the Sanskrit word 'Satya'
is "unchangeable", “that which is beyond distinctions of time, space,
and person" and "that which pervades the universe in all its
constancy". Existence is the vast space or stillness from which all
forms arise and in time dissolve. This
exhibition of new works depicts a variety of landscapes in which the
elements
of both form or matter and space or stillness coexist.
The landscapes in this exhibition are not
completely identified with physical form, but not entirely of spirit
either.
They represent a middle ground between form and the formless. Figures
and
objects in the paintings are easily defined by the mind but perhaps not
as
easily comprehended, yet equally as important are the areas of space,
which
suggest a magical, mythical dimension beyond form.
Some paintings suggest the spaciousness of
the night sky while others describe distant, dreamlike landscapes which
also
represent the illusive nature of the invisible… the realm beyond space,
time
and form where true divinity dwells. Where
all is one. |