LILY NICHOLSON
Lily Nicholson is an Australian artist based on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, where she lives and works on a seaside farm in the locality of Tanja.
Nicholson graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Printmaking) from Southern Cross University in 2013. Her multidisciplinary practice explores the relationship between landscape and the quiet rhythms of everyday life, drawing together observations of seasonal change with the cyclical rituals of home and motherhood. Returning to the same places throughout the year, she observes how shifts in colour, light and atmosphere are echoed through the recurring patterns of family life, allowing each to shape and inform the other.
Working across gouache and watercolour on paper, and more recently creating large-scale textile works that combine digital print with hand-sewn mark making, she creates abstract compositions shaped by colour, gesture and atmosphere. Nicholson’s imagery emerges from these repeated observations of place, reflecting the annual rhythms of the landscape alongside the familiar routines that mark the passing of time. Through simplified forms and layered surfaces, her work evokes a sense of place, seasonality and emotional resonance.
