Working Holiday
Nina Baker, Beautiful Bakje #5, 2017, poly urethane resin, 120x80x5mm. Photo: Nina Baker
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Map reference number: 79
Gallery Voltaire
14 Raglan St, North Melbourne 25 August – 3 September
Wed–Sun 11am–6pm Opening: Sat 26 August, 8–10pm
Artist/s: Nina Baker
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Attending Ruudt Peters annual summer workshop in 2013 left quite an impression on me as a young Sydney siding artist. Wanting more of Peters radical influence on my life and work I asked to be his intern. After some negotiating and a run of rural harvest work, I fortunately crashed my car, collected my insurance money and left for Amsterdam in July 2015.
Returning to Sydney in December 2016, Working Holiday presents new works developed whilst abroad in Amsterdam. This exhibition reveals a raw intuitive process and a theme centered on the power of the human human hand.
Returning to Sydney in December 2016, Working Holiday presents new works developed whilst abroad in Amsterdam. This exhibition reveals a raw intuitive process and a theme centered on the power of the human human hand.
a. Nina Baker, 277 Trials #30, 2016, foil, paint, clay, 80x50x4mm. Photo: Nina Baker
b. Nina Baker, 277 Trials #81, 2016, paint, 70x70x45mm. Photo: Nina Baker
b. Nina Baker, 277 Trials #81, 2016, paint, 70x70x45mm. Photo: Nina Baker
About the Artist
Nina Baker is a Sydney siding contemporary jewellery artist and currently studying a Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership at UNSW. Baker recently returned from a 1yr internship with Professor Ruudt Peters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2015-16. Prior to living in Amsterdam, she has also lived and worked in the NSW regional locations Katoomba, Leeton, Griffith, Boundary Bend, and obtained her BA(Jewellery) from CSU Wagga Wagga in 2011. Baker has maintained a studio jewellery practice ever since graduating, was a studio tenant at gaffa studios in Sydney as well as holding the position assistant manager. She was recipient of the artstart grant in 2014.
Nina Baker is a Sydney siding contemporary jewellery artist and currently studying a Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership at UNSW. Baker recently returned from a 1yr internship with Professor Ruudt Peters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2015-16. Prior to living in Amsterdam, she has also lived and worked in the NSW regional locations Katoomba, Leeton, Griffith, Boundary Bend, and obtained her BA(Jewellery) from CSU Wagga Wagga in 2011. Baker has maintained a studio jewellery practice ever since graduating, was a studio tenant at gaffa studios in Sydney as well as holding the position assistant manager. She was recipient of the artstart grant in 2014.
