Nichola Shanley was born in Waimana and received a Bachelor of Visual Art from the Auckland

University of Technology in 1995. Nichola works from her home in Lyttelton and is represented by Brett

McDowell Gallery, Dunedin.

 

Nichola’s cross-disciplinary work is often domestic in scale, purpose and materials – silk

paintings, lights, ceramics – becoming household vessels for the lore surrounding her practice. She is a

world maker calling upon the sacred and the profane, pagan and Catholic motifs and universal

mythology.

 

Artist photo credit: Sabin Holloway