Bundanon

Nick Santoro examines the mundane and futile details of the subcultures, trends, and environments that he encounters as an artist/arts worker. His paintings mash together disparate references to people and places to make paintings that celebrate the strange and mundane aspects that are inevitably present in everyday life.

In 2017 he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design majoring in drawing and printmaking. Since graduating Nick Santoro has exhibited in group and solo shows in NSW at AirSpace Projects, Wellington Street Projects, Egg & Dart, Good Space, Gaffa, Ambush, Kudos Gallery, Yellow House, Wollongong Art Gallery, Grafton Regional Gallery and Carriageworks for Sydney Contemporary, in Queensland in 2017 with a solo show at Edwina Corlette Gallery in and in Victoria at Melbourne Art Fair in 2022.

In Residence at Bundanon

Throughout my time at the residency, I will challenge pre established habits I have formed in my practice by disrupting the order in which I do things. By subverting methods I’ve become used to, I hope to further explore the material, technical and conceptual dimensions of my practice with a focus on working from observation and memory as opposed to photographs, physical and/or digital source material. As a result of experiments within the constructs of my practice I hope to emerge from this residency with foundations for a new body of work to be completed in my studio and exhibited in late 2024 – early 2025.