If The Mountain is Burning, Let It Burn

Artist-led exhibition tour and morning tea

Join us for a tour and conversation with artist Claudia Nicholson, 2024 UTS Artist in Residence as they discuss their exhibition If The Mountain Is Burning, Let It Burn at UTS Gallery.

If The Mountain Is Burning, Let It Burn is an exhibition of new photographic and recent video work that draws from Nicholson’s archive of over two hundred photographs of Colombia, her birthplace—Bogotá, and her life in Australia.

Moving between analogue and digital methods and marking Nicholson's first time working in photography, If The Mountain Is Burning, Let It Burn sees the artist re-examining and deconstructing the archive anew.

Morning tea and refreshments will be served.

About the artist:

Over the past decade, Claudia Nicholson’s multidisciplinary practice has examined her relationship to the Latin America region—specifically, Colombia—in an ongoing attempt to negotiate geographical, cultural, and temporal distances. Particularly notable have been her alfombras de aserrín (sawdust carpets), silletas (wearable fresh flowers displays), and watercolour paintings.

Nicholson is a recipient of the NSW Emerging Visual Arts Fellowship (2017) and a three-time finalist of the Sir John Sulman Prize (2022, 2019, 2018). In 2022, she was commissioned by the Sydney Opera House to develop new video work 'The Deep Rivers Say It Slowly' for Shortwave Festival. In 2020 she was commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia to develop Art Trail, an art education resource for young people. In 2019 she was commissioned by Museum of Contemporary Art and Vivid Sydney to create a light up the facade of the MCA. 

Over the past decade, Claudia Nicholson’s multidisciplinary practice has examined her relationship to the Latin America region—specifically, Colombia—in an ongoing attempt to negotiate geographical, cultural, and temporal distances. Particularly notable have been heralfombras de aserrín (sawdust carpets), silletas (wearable fresh flowers displays), and watercolour paintings. Nicholson is a recipient of the NSW Emerging Visual Arts Fellowship (2017) and a three-time finalist of the Sir John Sulman Prize (2022, 2019, 2018).