NANIGRADDON//ABOUT//CV//INSTAGRAM//SHOP

Nani Graddon is an artist and arts worker based in Naarm; she has worked collaboratively in nipaluna, Eora, and Glasgow, organising and exhibiting in group shows. Nani volunteers on the board of Constance ARI, working curatorially to facilitate the presentation of emerging art. She utilises alternative spaces to bring together exhibitions open to all early-career artists. Nani was a finalist in the 2022 Shelley Simpson Ceramics Prize, she co-curated and produced Constance ARI's contribution to the Dark Mofo Festival (MONA) in 2023, and was a finalist in the 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours from UNSW Art and Design and is currently undertaking a Masters in Cultural Conservation at the University of Melbourne.

Nani’s artistic practice considers the nuances of living in the predominantly British societal structures that were transported across the globe and now exist in the colony of Eastern Australia. She considers this by working with settler-produced and imported materials that repeat in urban spaces, litter the ground, and eventually dissolve into the dirt Her practice imagines spaces and objects where ‘Decay is inevitable as well as returns of what's been before repressed.’   She monitors urban and social landscapes around her through photography and sculpture to produce artworks that communicate social formations and built environments that try to balance within them elements of growth and decay.