Lana is a visual artist currently working in photography, acrylics and handmade paper. Her earliest work was in clothing and fashion design incorporating her own screen printed fabrics.
Recurring themes in her work include concepts of nurture and relationships between people, places, objects and time. Her island home of Tasmania means she is often drawn to the coast and the sea and these environments are often the subject or context of her work. Her pigment prints are derived from her lifelong private collection of photographs that are then digitally edited to allow her to ‘paint in’ her responses to the people, places, objects and events captured through her camera lens. The editing process (including digital drawing and painting) enables the manipulation of images – transposing their visual aesthetic forward and backward in time, in style, in colour, in texture, meaning and intensity.
Her work often blurs the boundary between reality and abstraction. Conscious choices in the selection of printing substrates ranging from her delicately textured handmade papers through to a variety of artists’ and photographic papers are also used to convey her aesthetic and often political intent.
Exhibitions
2016
Local Places Global Interfaces (joint show), Inka Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
Orogeny Suitcase Sale, (group exhibition) Tasmanian College of the Arts & Hunter Island Press, IXL Art Hotel Atrium, Hunter Street TAS
Hunter Island Press Pop Up Shop, (group exhibition) Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
Inka Pressings-Print Council of Australia- 2016 Year of Print (group exhibition), Inka Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Rescaping Realities (solo exhibition), Inka Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Northern Exposure, (group exhibition), Ritchie’s Mill , Launceston, TAS
Southern Exposure, (group exhibition), Forestvale Design Centre, Bruny Island, TAS
2015
On The Move (solo exhibition) Inka Gallery , Hobart TAS
Three Sheets to the Wind, (group exhibition), Derwent Sailing Squadron Art Wall,, Sandy Bay, TAS
Works on Paper (group exhibition), Inka Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Hunter Island Press Mini Prints (group exhibition), Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart TAS
Ashes to Ashes (Dark Mofo) at Narryna Heritage Museum, Hampden Road, Battery Point, TAS (photography & curation)
2014
Illumination (solo exhibition) Inka Gallery, Hobart, TAS
On the Waterfront (group exhibition) Derwent Sailing Squadron Art Wall, Sandy Bay, TAS
Moments (joint exhibition) Studio Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
Then Suddenly, (solo exhibition)@Artjam, North Hobart, TAS (photographer & curator)
Plume (Alzheimer’s Association of Tasmania) @Artjam, North Hobart, TAS (Curator)
Past events
Thirty-six Views of the Mountain
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77 Salamanca Place, Battery Point TAS
Local Places Global Interfaces
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Shop 16, Salamanca Arts Centre
Postcards from Myself
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Shop 16, Salamanca Arts Centre
Spring Clean – inka gallery’s annual sale
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Shop 16, Salamanca Arts Centre
Rescaping Realities
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Shop 16, Salamanca Arts Centre
On the Move
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Shop 16, Salamanca Arts Centre
inka gallery inc
Galleries
Shop 16, Salamanca Arts Centre
Explore more of Lana’s work and purchase online at www.lananelson.net and at www.tasmaniancreativestudio.com
