ARTIST BIO

In 2015 Nina Waters has relocated her private studio to the Bellarine Peninsula.

During 2013-2014 Nina was an Artist in Residence at the Caritas Christi Hospice in Kew as part of the St Vincent's Artist in Residence Program.

She has been involved with the Arts since the 1960s with extensive experience in arts education in both teaching and curriculum design at all levels in Adelaide, Canberra and Melbourne, and mentoring of art teachers. Formerly Head of Art departments in schools and colleges, she has spent the last 10 years working as the inaugural Rusden Curator of Art and Archives at Trinity College in the University of Melbourne, retiring from this position early in 2010. This role provided the curatorial responsibility for collections and exhibitions, including a significant portrait collection, working intimately with artists, their agents and sitters. She connected students with contemporary artists and professional galleries to facilitate  annual art purchases. She also established a repository of Indigenous works to be used for teaching and learning within the university and wider communities.

Working with Indigenous artists led Nina to renew her artistic practice. She looks at landscape, form, shape, texture and colour in a different way, with a deep respect for the environment and all its intricate detail. Visual imagery that has sustained, nourished and challenged her begins with the  migrant experience of her Russian parents. This background has always led to a deep spiritual connection with religious iconography and an appreciation and awareness of the surrounding environment.

Nina has worked on small curatorial projects as a Director of AnimArts Consulting. The rest of her time is spent as a studio based artist, first as a member of an artist collective at Swan Street Studios, Richmond in 2010 and then as Resident Artist at Workspace Gallery, Collingwood, from 2011. She has held two highly successful solo shows Transitions#1 and Transitions#2 at Workspace Gallery in 2011 and 2012. She has exhibited in various group shows and is represented in private collections including Trinity College, the University of Melbourne and the St Vincent's Art Collection.