Nani Graddon
nanigraddon@gmail.com
@nanigraddon

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.

Education

UNSW Art and Design
BFA First Class Honors 
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