Please join us for the finissage event to mark the closing of Nick Selenitsch’s exhibition Pool Noodle on Saturday 20th July, 3–5pm. The artist will be in attendance.
Closing event
Nick Selenitsch
Pool Noodle
Sutton Gallery
Saturday 20th July, 3–5 PM
Works from the series ‘&’ and ‘More Rebounds’ by Nick Selenitsch are included in the group exhibition Question the Space at the Walker Street Gallery in the City of Dandenong. Curated by Esther Gyorki, the exhibition confronts a conception of galleries as uncomfortable, rigid spaces in which movement is strictly regulated and accessibility is limited. The exhibition circumvents traditional modes of display, presenting artworks in unconventional and rarely attended to spaces within art galleries, while centring artists who’s work invokes playfulness and participation, each of which are fundamental tenets in Selenitsch’s practice.
Question the Space
Walker Street Gallery, City of Dandenong
21 November 2023 – 1 March 2024
Nick Selenitsch’s wall drawing ‘Maze’ (2023) is included in the group exhibition Palermo was thinking of Monk, I was thinking of J. P. Melville in a thicket, currently on show at 1301SW until 16 December.
Featuring abstract works by Janet Burchill, Don Driver, Hilarie Mais, Robert Moreland and Nick Selenitsch, this exhibition takes its impetus from ideas surrounding “jazz” and “folk” and how they sit alongside (on… in…) materiality, construction and concept, and colour the complexity of abstraction.
Palermo was thinking of Monk, I was thinking of J. P. Melville in a thicket
1301SW, Melbourne
11 Nov – 16 Dec 2023
And, &, The Middle Playground at MADA Gallery is the practical component Nick Selenitsch’s PhD candidature, titled The Middle Playground.
The Middle Playground explores how play can be employed as a framework for understanding artistic experience: both in the reception of art and in its creation. It is an endeavour that embraces paradoxical mergers — minglings—exemplified by play, and culturally defined at its outer limits by sport and games.
This is an arena where the serious is also frivolous, the inconclusive becomes conclusive, and where there is an acute awareness that comes from being lost in the task — becoming “thoughtfully playful,” in other words.
And, &, The Middle Playground
MADA Gallery, Building D, Monash Caulfield campus
6 September–23 September 2023
Aleks Danko, Raafat Ishak and Nick Selenitsch feature in ‘It’s not you, it’s me’ which opens tonight at 5pm at the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery. This exhibition runs until the 01 April 2023
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‘It’s not you, it’s me’ is an exhibition of self-portraiture by the staff of VCA ART. Including painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and photography ‘It’s not you, it’s me’ presents diverse approaches to the idea of self-imaging.
Launching on Friday 24 February, Nick Selenitsch features in ‘Recreation’ at Project8.
‘Recreation’ seeks to illuminate something of our inclination toward play through the experiential realm of art. What is the place of art in relationships between work and recreation?
Nick Selenitsch explores play in the formation of understanding. The works presented for this exhibition mingle co-existing subjects and symbols—sport, leisure, and abstraction —with an antipodean twist: a contemplation of the laconically hybrid Australian cultural experience.
Nick Selenitsch presents ‘Australian Crawl’ at Savage Garden.
’Australian Crawl’ by Nick Selenitsch
Savage Garden
Rear of 168 Amess St, Carlton North, entrance via alley.
20 Nov – 4 Dec 2022
‘a do ocean’ curated Christopher L G Hill at Kings Artist-Run, featuring Sutton artists: Gian Manik, George Egerton-Warburton, Raafat Ishak and Nick Selenitsch
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Also with Cameron Allan McKean, Ricarda Bigolin, Hugo Blomley, Nicola Blumenthal, Holly Childs, Stacey Collee, Renee Cosgrave, Gabriella D’Costa, Debris Facility, Endless Lonely Planet 11, Sam George, Luke Gerrard, Aurellia Guo, Chloe Hagger, Christopher L G Hill, Jesse Hogan, Lou Hubbard, Helen Hughes, Eleanor Laver, Alice McIntosh, Sean McMorrow, Kate Meakin, Virginia Overell, Ashley Perry, Lisa Radford, Yuval Rosinger, Amy May Stuart, Savanna Szelski, Christopher Theofanous, Yundi Wang, and more.
‘Form & The Universe of Colour’ is a survey exhibition of artist Nick Selenitsch which brings together a collection of recent works and an ambitious new project specifically developed for Benalla Art Gallery.
Friday 3rd Dec 2021 until 6th Feb 2022.
