Nani Graddon
nanigraddon@gmail.com
@nanigraddon

Nani Graddon is an emerging artist from nipaluna who is currently based on unceded Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country (Naarm/Melbourne). Her practice is driven by an insistent and joyful need to make, an ongoing compulsion rooted in curiosity, community, and material play. She primarily works with installation, using low-cost, mass-produced materials sourced from local construction sites, chain stores, and high-street dollar shops. These everyday objects, ubiquitous and industrial, carry traces of contemporary life and its discontents. Nani repurposes them to examine the entanglements of place, history, and shared experience.

Her practice is both research-led and site-responsive, often culminating in layered, immersive installations. Nani's conceptual focus lies in critiquing the enduring impacts of settler colonialism on contemporary existence, picking through the material detritus of capitalism to uncover quiet, connective moments between people, histories, and place.

Nani is actively involved in grassroots and artist-led spaces, with a deep commitment to collaboration and supporting other emerging practitioners. She has exhibited and contributed to exhibitions across Naarm, Eora, nipaluna, Glasgow, and Lisbon. Recent projects include a solo installation at ‘Mono Lisboa’ (Lisbon), a collaborative exhibition with Marguerite Carson at ‘The School House Gallery’ (nipaluna), and a group show of collaborative works made with friends at ‘138 Gallery’ in Brunswick (Naarm).

Nani is a board member of Constance ARI (nipaluna/Hobart). She has recently co-delivered exhibitions for emerging artists, including curating the 2023 Constance x Dark Mofo exhibition and facilitating a public artwork by writer Sam George-Allen, presented in April 2025.

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