Nani Graddon
nanigraddon@gmail.com
@nanigraddon

Nani Graddon is an emerging contemporary artist from Nipaluna, currently based on unceded Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country (Naarm/Melbourne). Her practice is motivated by the everyday exploration of urban sites and materials, considering the histories and tensions held within places undergoing ongoing development, as well as the material and cultural traces left behind.

Nani graduated from UNSW Art and Design, receiving Class 1 Honours in 2021. She has exhibited consistently at a grassroots level both in Australia and overseas, including at TCB Gallery (Naarm), The Schoolhouse Gallery (Clarence City Council, Nipaluna), Contemporary Arts Tasmania, Puzzle Art Studio (Eora), and Mono Lisboa (Lisbon). Nani has been a finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, the Shelly Simpson Ceramics Prize, and the Jenny Brit Painting Prize, and has also received an emerging artist grant from Contemporary Arts Tasmania. 

Education

UNSW Art and Design
BFA First Class Honours 
2021

University of Melbourne
Masters of Material Conservation

Exhibitions

Upcoming October 2025
Solo exhibition
138 Gallery
Palm/s

2025
Duo exhibition
Mono Lisboa
Holding Rain


2024
Collaborative exhibition
Roseny Barn and Schoolhouse Gallery
Glasshouse - somewhere between underground cables and overhead flights

2023
Curator 
Dark Mofo x Constance
Walls of Skin

2023
Collaborative exhibition
Puzzle Art Gallery
all around the silence of the body the paper like the skin of your palm

2023
Group exhibition
Contemporary Art Tasmania
Constellations New Work


2023 
Group exhibition
Good Grief
framed/unframed

2022
Group exhibition
M2 Gallery
Kudos Offsite


2019
Group performance
Glasgow School of Art
John Cage and Merce Cunningham dance performance

Grants + Prizes

Press