NIKE SAVVAS
Nike Savvas, Living on a Promise, installation view, ARC ONE Gallery, 2017. Photo: Andrew Curtis.
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Nike Savvas is a senior Australian Artist based between Sydney and London. Trained as a painter, she works across scale and materials completing numerous large-scale installations for the Toi Art Te Papa Wellington NZ, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Auckland Art Gallery NZ, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Camden Arts Centre, London; Artspace Sydney, IMA Brisbane, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Leeds Art Gallery, UK, and the Southbank Centre in London.
Drawing her inspiration from a variety of sources, from Op Art through to kitsch, her work often conflates painstakingly crafted detail and complex mathematical algorithms - drawing attention to both the tangible and the abstract at once. Her objects and installations often invite the viewer to partake in the active experience of her work, by physically shifting, repositioning and refocusing their gaze, in order to unveil ever-changing facets to the works. Her art is never quite ‘stable’, rather Savvas creates tantalising, fluctuating objects that captivate and mesmerise the eye and the mind.
Nike Savvas’ work is held in many public collections including Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand Toi Art Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Cyprus Ministry of Culture Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Australia, Deutsche Bank Collection, Tate Library Collection, London, British Library Visual Arts Collection.British Museum, London. Artist Multiples Collection – Chelsea College of Art and Design, London The Royal College of Art Print Archive Collection, London, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Grifith University Art Collection, Brisbane, Federal Archive Canberra, PriceWaterhouseCoopers Collection, Artbank Australia, Macquarie Group Art Collection, Sydney, HOTA Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD, UTS Gallery Art Collection, Sydney, RMIT University Art Collection, Melbourne, Deakin University Museum, Melbourne, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, as well as Private Collections Nationally and Internationally.
Select Awards include: The Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, Museum of Contemporary Art Primavera Acquisitive Art Award, Jury Prize (Gold Medal) 11th Triennale of India, Dehli, A.C.T. Creative Arts Fellowship, Australia Council Fellowship.