Solo Exhibition Macan
MACAN
Solo Exhibition by Nani Puspasari
at Blackcat Gallery,
420 Brunswick St, Fitzroy 3065
Dates. 15 - 26 Dec 2021
Opening Night. Thu 16 Dec 21, 6-8.30pm
Supported by City of Yarra
Artwork: paintings, ceramics and installation.
MACAN, which means “Tiger” in Bahasa Indonesia. Born in Indonesia in the year of the tiger, the artist was raised in a Chinese-Javanese household. She moved to Australia in 2008 and suddenly found herself immersed in a city full of people from different ethnic groups, cultures, and religious backgrounds. This new multicultural setting has since influenced her work as an artist.
MACAN is a form of representation that explores the perception of culture and the self. This exhibition is heavily inspired by the picture of a tiger that her father cut out from a calendar the year she was born and put on display at the family house wall. She invents different personas that are visually connected by the repetition of tiger creation to pay homage to her family and Asian heritage.
Artist Bio
Nani Puspasari is a Chinese Indonesian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne since 2008. She completed a Master of Fine Art at RMIT in 2010. Her work includes a variety of artistic mediums such as drawing, painting, ceramic and installation. Her art is inspired by childhood memories, nature, popular culture, identity and notions of femininity to communicate feelings of innocence, loss and sorrow. Nani has exhibited consistently since 2007 in various exhibitions, including The Space that Measures Distance at the Chinese Museum in Melbourne, and has been invited to the international residencies in Thailand and South Korea. She won the Bank of Queensland Encouragement Award in the student painting category in 2008, the Silver Illustrator Australia Award in 2012, the Lethbridge Art Award finalist in 2013 and the Japan Illustration Awards in 2017.
Exhibition view
Opening night
Photos: Michael Kitchenham
