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Nicholas Ives

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Had the pleasure of filming an interview with @artism.___ earlier today. Check out all the great interviews already up on the page, mine will be posted sometime in the coming weeks 🎥 by @nicholasives_

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Even though I’ve been making video and sound pieces lately, I’m still sneaking in a painting or two, quickly. I painted this big one in just a few hours between school drop off and pickup as a durational frameworks for studio method. It’s meant I’ve had to empty a lot of the image out, exposing a looser and softer and unresolved surface

Noise…?
Oil on linen
180x120cm
2026 by @nicholasives_

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a day ago

Part 3 of sticking toys to the wall

#nicholasives #slinky by @nicholasives_

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2 months ago

Pretty awkward family get-together 😬🫠🤗

200x150cm
Oil on unstretched canvas

#painting #australianart #family #portait #fatherhood by @nicholasives_

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3 months ago

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available at stockroom
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NICHOLAS IVES
And when I come back, I’ve gone, 2024

oil on linen, stained wood frame
artwork 96.5 × 71 cm
framed 99 × 73 × 4.5 cm

Some of Nicholas Ives’ thinking toward his painting and studio process is to do with the question of possibilities – possibilities within the painting process and as a methodology.

Ives finds that incidents and experiences of painting(vb) articulate multiple possibilities for new lived realities. A painting is the mid-state of an event that operates as an experience with infinite divergence; ie. the instability of the painting process is a fluid reality that moves in the direction of the unlimited. The moment of painting is lived and defies abstraction as it is an experiential travel towards a multitude of moments both past, future and side-by-side. Painting moments always open new painting moments and will disrupt previous painting moments.

Ives likes thinking that these events of destabilisation, transformation and evolution as well as decay, rupturing and loosening reveal new manners, limitless spaces and openings and connections.
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for details and a catalogue of available artwork please email enquiries@stockroom.space

#nicholasives #contemporarypainting #stockroomkyneton taken in Stockroom Kyneton by @nicholasives_

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4 months ago

Recent things and things that are happening 👀 by @nicholasives_

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5 months ago

A small peek of the vagus 👀👀👀 by @nicholasives_

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6 months ago

‘Today I painted a mermaid, a friend of the unknown. This creature that has existed for over thousands of years guides me through uncharted, perhaps turbulent, waters. It has no head but many arms and a strong tail’

Currently on view @maitlandregionalartgallery as part of ‘New Old School’

‘Need a lift? (The Mermaid)’
Oil on linen
140 x 100 cm
2025 by @nicholasives_

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Experiment that got me looking at edges, borderlands & ruptures. Painted over a week or so Jan-Feb 2026
Unfinished WIP

‘KLAN’
Acrylic & oil on unstretched linen
150 x 110cm
2026

#klan #edge #painting #studio by @nicholasives_

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6 months ago

Massive thanks to @maitlandregionalartgallery and curators @chelseajlehmann & @luke_thurgate for a brilliant opening last friday night! Thanks to all that came to see it, old faces and new friends :)
@robcleworth
@katekurucz
@jordanrichardsonartist
@heidi_yardley by @nicholasives_

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7 months ago

‘Portrait of Geppetto’ is a little piece for ‘New Old School’ at Maitland Regional Art Gallery @maitlandregionalartgallery opening soon! It’s a great line up of contemporary painters, I’ll post more details and pics soon ✏️ by @nicholasives_

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7 months ago

Working on a presentation….. damn where’d the years go??? #artist #studio #painting by @nicholasives_

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