NICOLE ZHANG

Nicole Zhang's practice centres on genre painting and its potential to respond to the complexities of everyday life and document encounters between the mundane and the sacred. Her work references the pictorial vernacular of modern and contemporary figurative painting and acknowledges the duality of quotidian tasks as at once prosaic and spiritual.

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Zhang’s suite of paintings for her exhibition Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow consider the everyday as a site of formation; the devotional soil on which we are shaped. Within her crowded, yet intimate tableaux, tragicomic figures navigate the rhythms of daily life and quietude with care. Recurring patterns and shapes envelop and mirror one another, in a contemplation on both the prosaic and deeply significnat nature of the things we do each day.