Nici Cumpston

Nici Cumpston, OAM (born 1963)[1] is an Australian photographer, painter, curator, writer, and educator.

Nici Cumpston

OAM
Born
Nicole Jane Cumpston

1963 (age 57–58)
Adelaide, South Australia
Alma materUniversity of South Australia
Known forPhotography, visual arts, Indigenous art curation

Cumpston's family background is Barkindji (an Aboriginal people of New South Wales), Afghan, Irish and English. Born in Adelaide,[1] she graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts.[2]

Cumpston shoots on black-and-white film, which is then scanned and printed digitally on canvas before being hand-coloured. An exhibition of her work, having-been-there, was held at the University of Virginia's Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection in 2014, during which Cumpston spent two months as resident artist.[2]

Employed by the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) since 2008,[3] Cumpston became artistic director of Tarnanthi, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts festival held in Adelaide, in 2015. Tarnanthi exhibitions were held at AGSA, the South Australian Museum, the JamFactory and the South Australian School of Art.[4][5]

Cumpston became Curator Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at AGSA in 2016, and as of March 2020 remains artistic director role of Tarnanthi.[3]

In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, Cumpston was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for "service to the museums and galleries sector, and to Indigenous art".[6]

Works

Cumpston has works in the National Gallery of Victoria

  • Flooded Gum, Katarapko Creek, Murray River National Park, 2007[7]
  • Nookamka – Lake Bonney[8]
  • Tree stumps, western shoreline – Nookamka[9]

Her work is also found in the National Gallery of Australia:

  • Campsite V, Nookamka Lake[10]

References
  1. "Nici Cumpston | Artists | NGV". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  2. "Nici Cumpston: having-been-there at the Kluge-Ruhe". Kluge-Ruhe. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  3. "Nici Cumpston / CV / Nici Cumpston,cv". nicicumpston.com. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  4. Opie, Rebecca (1 October 2015). "Gallery: TARNANTHI Indigenous art festival attracts thousands". ABC News. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  5. "Tarnanthi 2015". AGSA – The Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  6. "Nicole Jane Cumpston". Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  7. "Flooded Gum, Katarapko Creek, Murray River National Park | Nici Cumpston~Barkindji | NGV | View Work". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  8. "Nookamka – Lake Bonney | Nici Cumpston~Barkindji | NGV | View Work". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  9. "Tree stumps, western shoreline – Nookamka | Nici Cumpston~Barkindji | NGV | View Work". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  10. "Campsite V, Nookamka Lake". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 16 March 2020.

Further reading
  • Lane, Carly (2012). "Nici Cumpston". unDisclosed – 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial. National Gallery of Victoria. (Bio accompanying Cumpston's photographs of Lake Bonney, or "Nookamka", exhibited as part of an exhibition at NGV.)
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