Nadine Christensen: Home Truths
Nadine Christensen: Home Truths comprises paintings, video and sculpture that reflect on domestic life, particularly via the iconography of doors and houses.
At the core of Christensen’s practice is a deep commitment to the complex legacy and enduring nature of painting; her work has always explored a desire to map and understand our environment as well as the role of narrative and storytelling in the unfolding of information throughout contemporary culture. Christensen’s paintings chart a perpetual motion through art and life as she negotiates her immediate environment – studio, home and neighbourhood. Doors, for example, encountered on her travels from one place to another, are recontextualised in the studio and again in the gallery. Similarly engaging her local environment, the video Slow Motion sees the artist being towed through the streets of Reservoir in an intentionally dinged-up but tenderly painted old car.
As Jennifer Higgie has recently noted of her work: ‘Christensen’s world is as rich and oblique, as idiosyncratic and tangled, as the memories we accrue each day, alone in our heads, however crowded the room or street.’
(Jennifer Higgie, ‘The Long Echo: The Paintings of Nadine Christensen’ in Nadine Christensen: Around (exhib. cat.), The University of Melbourne, 2023.)
