Nicole van Dijk
I am a Melbourne based artist whose work explores the relationship between landscape, memory and constructed image. Trees have become my metaphor for lineage: structures that grow slowly, forming connections between ground, time and place. The landscapes I paint are often small pockets of nature found within the city, spaces where something organic persists within an otherwise constructed environment.
I also work as an Educator, working with pre-service teachers. Both teaching and painting involve a similar process: building something gradually over time, creating structure, connection and continuity.
Education
I hold a Bachelor of Design with Honours (Swinburne University) and a Master of Education (Melbourne University). I have exhibited at Rubicon ARI, Forty Five Downstairs and have been a finalist in Glover Landscape Prize. I have created public artworks for the city of Booroondara and held Artist in Residence positions at Strathcona Grammar School for consecutive years.
Works by Nicole van Dijk
Acknowledgment of traditional owners.
We would like to pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land on which our building stands, their leaders, past, present and emerging.