Bundanon

Nina Walton is an Australian/American visual artist based in Sydney, Gadigal.

Nina utilises the abstract language of modernism (geometry, grids, colour) alongside strict instructions from conceptual art traditions, to investigate what it means to work within artistic systems and limited constraints. With a focus on process, she makes paintings, drawings, installations, books, and video works. Nina’s work is currently on show at Adelaide’s JamFactory, and in the 2023 Dobell drawing prize. She has also exhibited in Sydney’s Dominik Mersch Gallery, May Space, Factory 49, Articulate Project Space, and in various other group exhibitions both in Sydney and Los Angeles. She has been commissioned publicly (by the Mayor’s Office in Los Angeles) and privately to install site-responsive pieces, and her work is held in private collections in the US, Europe, and Australia. Recently graduated from the National Art School with an MFA in Painting where she won the University Medal, Walton also holds PhD in Economics from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a specialisation in game theory, and an Arts/Law Degree from the University of NSW, Australia.

In Residence at Bundanon

In the early 20^th century, the French philosopher Henri Bergson made a distinction between ‘clock time’ (seconds, minutes, hours) and ‘duration’ (how we experience time). For an individual, time can speed up or slow down, or even be suspended, but in scientific terms, the movement of time is predictable. For the residency at Bundanon, I wish to go deeper into my subjective experience of living within time, interrogating this distinction between clock time and lived time focusing on the course of a single day. I would like to produce work that functions at multiple temporal levels: a whole day collapsed into a single moment, 24 hours extending infinitely, but with clock time always rhythmically mediating and organising the lived experience.