Angus Nivison features in new NERAM exhibition

Bush to Bay: Hinton and the artist’s camp presents new works created by New England based artists in response to Sydney’s artist camps of the nineteenth century and iconic works which depict them. 

“The young Howard Hinton arrived in Sydney in the late nineteenth century and spent a lot of time staying in the artist’s camps around Cremorne and present day Mosman where he met artists such as Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Julian Ashton,” said Robert Heather, Art Museum Director at NERAM.

 “This exhibition brings together works from NERAM’s famous Howard Hinton Collection and from the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections with new artworks created by four New England-based artists who revisited the sites of those artist camps and found inspiration there, even though these locations had changed quite dramatically in the past 125 years.”

In 2015 the four artists travelled to Sydney with guest curator Sandra McMahon to visit the artist camps sites in Mosman and Cremorne, stay on the Harbour at Cockatoo Island and explore the archives at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Library.

”On decamping to Sydney and then a day trip to Mosman’s Bay, I was unprepared for what Mosman’s Bay had become – a parking lot for yachts, pleasure cruisers and high-rise apartments, all I could look at was the water, as it was the only thing that not been changed for the worse,” Walcha artist Angus Nivison said. 

Nivison has been exhibiting regularly since the 1970s and has works in major public and private collections around Australia. He won the Wynne Prize in 2002 and the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award in 2011. 

The exhibition will be opened at NERAM at 6.00pm on Thursday December 1 and will be on display until March 2017.