Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day Auction - Curated by Lee Sharrock

About

Nadine Talalla is a Painter from Australia and Malaysia based in London. She was educated in Malaysia, Australia, China and United Kingdom and has exhibited Internationally.  

She has completed a Foundation in Chinese Painting and Cultural Studies from Beijing Language & Cultural University, a Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting, at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 2004 and a Masters of Arts Management at The University of Melbourne in 2006. In 2016, she completed the Turps Banana Studio Programme and is currently undertaking a mentorship under the esteemed painter Peter Ashton Jones.  

She has been profiled in BBC News and Radio and featured in The World of Interiors, The Wall Street International Journal, The Evening Standard, The Week, The Huffington Post and numerous other International media. She works from her studio in Davies Street, Mayfair, London. ‘Interested in female archetypes and tragedy, Talalla paints what she calls “ugly women” taken from different points in history and embedded in fantastic, dreamlike narratives. She paints strong female archetypes who are not idealised to a male standard of perfection’ Wall Street International Journal  
 

Education  
2014-2016 Turps Banana, Painting Studio Programme, London  

2004-2006 Masters of Arts Management,The University of Melbourne, Australia  

1999- 2002 Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art (Painting) Honours Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia  

1998- 1999 Language and Traditional Chinese Painting, Beijing Language & Cultural University  
 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

Solo Exhibitions  

2018 That Woman, The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London  

2017 Haunted Beauty, Dissenters’ Gallery, Kensal Green Cemetery, London  

Selected Group Exhibitions  

2022 Mayfair Art Weekend 

2021 Group Show, Waserhalle, Berlin, UK  

2020 Cloud 9, Ad Lib Gallery, London Everyday’s A Miracle, curated by Ben Moore, Ad Lib Gallery, London Mayfair Art Weekend, 48 Brook Street Open Studios, London  

2018 Painting in the Digital Age, Herrick Gallery, Mayfair, London  

2017 Studio Holders Group Show, Tannery Project Space, London
 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artworks

This work employs the motif of Autumn to express the seasonal cycles of Mother Nature concurrent with the cycles of womanhood: expressing the magical and mutable qualities of womankind. In Ancient Greek Mythology womanhood was summed up in three phases: The Maiden which represented Spring, The Mother which represented Summer and The Sage which represented Fall (Autumn). In this work a wistful woman stands beside a barren tree upon a bed of Autumnal fallen leaves illustrating her transition from the Mother to Sage.  
 

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