VCA ART 2020

Nisha Hunter

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmaking)

I am an interdisciplinary artist using text, video, installation and textiles in an ongoing exploration of identity and the self. I am interested in the personal becoming political, as I use storytelling, memories and dreams to consider how individual and cultural identity is made up from subjective applications of experience and recollection. The moving image has been a consistent aspect of my work and more recently my practice has been guided by an interest in turmeric. Drawn to the yielding yellow, I utilise the spice in the form of dye in my textile work or allow it to inform the language of dreams and memories in my text-based and video works. I do not aim to provide answers to the questions of identity, rather invite the viewer to come to their own conclusions.

Click here to view digital text flip book 'I See Yellow In My Dreams'

Enquiries

nisha.hunter98@gmail.com

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Nisha Hunter, My Memories Are Yellow, single-channel digital video, 2020
Nisha Hunter, Yellow Vision (installation view), single-channel digital video, chiffon, silk, thread, turmeric dye, turmeric powder, rice paper, ink, ceramic pots, 2020
Nisha Hunter, Yellow Vision (installation view), single-channel digital video, chiffon, silk, thread, turmeric dye, turmeric powder, rice paper, ink, ceramic pots, 2020. Documentation by Lucy Foster.
Nisha Hunter, Yellow Daal, turmeric and ink on rice paper, 2020
Nisha Hunter, Yellow Daal, turmeric and ink on rice paper, 2020. Documentation by Lucy Foster.
Nisha Hunter, Yellow Vision (installation view), single-channel digital video, chiffon, silk, thread, turmeric dye, turmeric powder, rice paper, ink, ceramic pots, 2020
Nisha Hunter, Yellow Vision (installation view), single-channel digital video, chiffon, silk, thread, turmeric dye, turmeric powder, rice paper, ink, ceramic pots, 2020. Documentation by Lucy Foster.
Nisha Hunter, Yellow Daal, turmeric dye and ink on rice paper, 2020. Documentation by Lucy Foster.
Nisha Hunter, Yellow Daal, turmeric dye and ink on rice paper, 2020. Documentation by Lucy Foster.
Nisha Hunter, Yellowing Earth, turmeric powder, ceramic pots, 2020. Documentation by Lucy Foster.
Nisha Hunter, Yellowing Earth, turmeric powder, ceramic pots, 2020. Documentation by Lucy Foster.
Nisha Hunter, *Yellowing Earth* (detail), turmeric powder, ceramic pots, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Nisha Hunter, Yellowing Earth (detail), turmeric powder, ceramic pots, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Nisha Hunter, Untitled, calico, turmeric powder, ink, 2020. Documentation by Lucy Foster.
Nisha Hunter, Untitled, calico, turmeric powder, ink, 2020. Documentation by Lucy Foster.
Nisha Hunter, You Smell Like Curry, cotton, thread, turmeric dye, metal hooks, 2020
Nisha Hunter, You Smell Like Curry, cotton, thread, turmeric dye, metal hooks, 2020
Nisha Hunter, I See Yellow In My Dreams, digital text flip book, 2020
Nisha Hunter, I See Yellow In My Dreams, digital text flip book, 2020

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmaking)

Lily Beamish
Zachariya Bol
Simon Clark
Mardi Denham-Roberts
Neve Elliott
Mi-Mi Fitzsimmons
Bec Gynes
Kye Hilton
Chalk Hook
Yasmin Hopkins
Nisha Hunter
Pang Jie Siah
Emma Kleeberg
Cat Lawrance
Ruby Li
John Lim
Ashling Martin
Jak Rapmund
Nelle Rodis
Alex Smith
Ruebi Smith
Patrick Staley
Christopher Theofanous

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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