2024
MA GRIPPE. JIMMY NUTTALL. WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER.
CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS. LEVEL 3 STUDIO 1537 ANNEXE BUILDING 15 RUE GEOFFROY L’ASNIER 75004 PARIS.
Untitled (rayures de ma grippe)
Acrylic on collected papers
Dimensions vary
2024
Untitled work in progress
Looped video
8 minutes 11 seconds
2000, 2001, 2024
Photo documentation by Caroline Pierret Pirson
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
2023
Cococonstance (2023), single-channel HD video, 1620x1080 / 16:9, 15.46 minutes
Photographed by Prue Stent
Performed by Oliver Saraviego, Eugene Choi, Mick Klepner-Roe, Geoffrey Watson, Kate Meakin, Raf McDonald, Jojo Gauci-Seddon, Seb Henry-Jones
Ella Sowinska - Director of photography
Nicholas Smith - sound recordist. set dressing and art coordination
Jimmy Nuttall - written by, directed by and edited by
Daniel Jenastch - sound designer and musical score composition
Commissioned by EO Gill and the National Art School
Backpack Of Love, cotton and polyester bed sheets from op shops and friends, steam dyed with rusted fencing wire and leaves, ceramic oxide, wire and hay, 2020 - 2021
Photographed by Tim Hardy
Thanks to Bella Gordon, Ben Sheen and Georgia Robenstone
The panels of fabric of which I am sewing new JN Sacs are made from this big bag. I know I have been saying for months that they will be available - and they will be soon. Online soon. For those have ordered, they are being sewed rn.
“I wanted to do a portrait of what I love and making bags last year gave me purpose. I found a process I enjoyed, buying sheets from the senior op shop volunteers. I laundered and ironed them, steam dyed them in leaves and sticks I found around. I wrapped my wares for delivery, took them to the post office and dispatched them to friends across the world. The Kathmandu Unisac, mum bought when I was in primary school, was hers then mine. Now in my 30s, I still have it and I decided to make an enlarged sculpture of it, one hundred times bigger and from the sheets I had collected. From the jangling over time, both zippers had fallen off last year. I cast them in bronze, immensely heavy. The lay on the ground of the gallery. I wanted to footnote the piece with a photo. I thought about all the collages I made with Nick in our covid lockdown country-city exchange last year. Some were personal images of past loves and partners. Then misc found stuff. The collages were poems for those passed times, because last year, time paused. I printed out a photo I took of a photo collage by filmmaker Curt McDowell in a group exhibition at Participant Inc, titled “Things” curated by Bryan Nordeen. I travelled to New York in 2016, when I fell in love, that’s when I saw it. This time proved fruitful in making art. This year, I staged his photo, and got my friends Jacqui Shelton and Ella Sowinska to both shoot me. The intimacy and exposure of McDowell’s body on his mattress, the doubling of himself, his bottom, the birds eye view, his gayze, a doll on the bed. I wanted to make similar and have my bums facing the bag.”
'Houses'
2019
‘Blanket Pussy Boots’
And on recess.net.au in 2020
Images by Jacqui Shelton and Jimmy Nuttall
Link to essay on Fabulina by Aodhan Madden featured on recess.net.au
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2019
Live performance combining painted cotton and hand-dyed costumes, wooden clogs made of council oak trees from North Fitzroy, blanket fleece, text, sauerkraut and drums
45 minutes
Performed by Leah Landau, Jimmy Nuttall, Nicholas Smith, Luigi Vescio
Drums by Bonnie Cummings
Presented at Kings Artist Run in Melbourne, Australia
Images by Jacqui Shelton
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‘Marquette for lounge room'
2018
Plywood, acrylic, painted aluminium and paper
60 x 75 x 45 cm
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‘Burlap body’ 2018 Hessian, foam and chicken wire Dimensions vary
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‘Yoga blanket’
2018
Synthetic blanket |
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| 'Sofa-bed mattress from farm' Mattress and rope 2018 |
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| Collection of textiles including papa's wool items, childhood cricket battling pad, 'Qantas Flag' silk (2014), 2018 |
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| 'Kirsty's heated blanket' 2018 |
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| 'Sheets from our beds and a fleece heart from Marrickville' 2018 |
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‘Happy Birthday’
2018 Aluminium flashing and acrylic paint, looped 4 minute digital video Dimensions vary Performed by Mick Klepner Roe and Jimmy Nuttall Videography by Sheena Colquhoun |
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| Harry's burial 2018 |
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| 'Aunty Kirsty out front of Towerhill in the 80s' 2017 Found photo |
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| Public water fountain in Syracuse, Sicily August 2017 |
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| Somebody's home, Kassel, Germany September 2017 |
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| Back of Karolina as she talks on the phone and waits for a tram in Bemowo, Warsaw September 2017 |
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| The pink walls and concentration on the RER metro train, Paris September 2017 |
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| Pacotille in the apartment of Cedric and Yves, Canal de St. Martin, ParisSeptember 2017 |
2017
Looped double channel digital video presented on two crooked screens
16.55 minutes
Performances by Mick Klepner Roe, Debra Batton, Zak Pidd, Zoey Dawson, Sheena Colquhoun, David Huggins, Edward Anatov and Tim Hennessy
The video was presented alongside a sculpture (in collaboration with Nicholas Smith) that echoed the basketball court outside the gallery window or provisional market shelving. Atop it, ceramic vessels, inspired by vases from paintings of Sydney Charm School artist, Adrian Feint.
As part of a collaboration ‘I am crying’ with Nicholas Smith, presented at Firstdraft, Sydney, 2017.
Installation shot by Zan Wimberley
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‘Shower (MASSACHUSSETTS)’ is a sculpture referencing a work from 2012 and 2013. A fountain costumed as a domestic shower presents mosaic figures. It references the bodies of friends in photographs from a trip to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA in 2016.
Presented in ‘Arsehole turns inside out, rest of body reluctantly follows’ at Pansy Gallery alongside Aodhan Madden and Brigid Fitzgerald in 2017. Then presented part of Interior Monologues: Elise Harmsen & Jimmy Nuttall at True Estate, Melbourne 2017.
Images by Lauren Burrow
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| Archival poster from the former "Victorian AIDS Council" from the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, 2016 |
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| ‘GINA’ 2015 - 2016 Enamel, steel, frankincense, looped single channel digital video, 13.48 minutes ‘GINA’ at Bus Projects, Melbourne 2016\ Installation shot by Matthew Stanton |
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‘Davies St Feb '14'
2015
Inkjet print on rag paper, plaster cast frame
Above and below documentation from 'Too Soon' with Chris Sciuto at Duckett Street Studios, Melbourne 2015
Installation shot by Christo Crocker
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| 'GINA' production stills 2015 |
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| 'GINA' production still |
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| Studio assemblages at Duckett St Studio, Brunswick, 2015 |
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| Oscar's burial, 2014 |
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| San Francisco street, 2014 |
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| 'Untitled (David and dove)' 2014 Silk and enamel on hessian Dimensions vary |
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| 'Avril in garden' and 'Garden' 2014 Silk, ribbon, charcoal and enamel on hessian Dimensions vary |
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| My bed in West Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, 2014 |
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| 'Qantas Flag' 2014 Digital print on silk, or acrylic painting, dowel and rope |
