NIKE SAVVAS has been featured in the prestigious journal 'Diacritics' in an extensive article on her practice, as well as the front and back covers! Diacritics, a Cornell University publication of literary theory and criticism, has included in the past important writers and philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, Michel Focault and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Keeping a strong visual component, in recent years the journal has highlighted a single artist per issue.
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NIKE SAVVAS will be discussing her installation-based practice at the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum, 55 North Terrace, Adelaide, on Tuesday 8 August, 1.30-2.30pm.
Nike Savvas, 2016 (detail), installation view, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art. Photograph by Sam Noonan.
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
We are pleased to announce that ARC ONE will be part of this year's Sydney Contemporary with works by Peter Daverington, Murray Fredericks, Janet Laurence, Robert Owen, Nike Savvas, Cyrus Tang and John Young.
The art fair will take place from 7- 10 September at Carriageworks.
For more information, click here.
ROBERT OWEN & NIKE SAVVAS
ROBERT OWEN and NIKE SAVVAS have works in the exhibition Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art at the Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Opening 5 July, Call of the Avant-Garde is the first exhibition to examine the influence of the modernist art movement Constructivism on Australian art, presented in this centenary year of the Russian revolution.
Exhibition dates 5 July – 8 October.
Find out more here.
Robert Owen, Third Movement #1 (from the series Thought Forms), 2015, painted stainless steel, 64 x 74 x 58,83 x 57 x 46cm.
Nike Savvas, Sliding Ladder – Black with White Pentagon 1, 2012, wood, wool and steel, 155 x 260 x 250cm
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Nike Savvas, 2016 (installation detail), 2016. Photo: Sam Noonan.
NIKE SAVVAS' fascinating practice is detailed in a recent article from The Australian.
You can read the article by Bronywn Watson here.
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Nike Savvas is exhibiting in Quicksilver: 25 Years of Samstag Scholarships at the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum, University of South Australia. The exhibition celebrates the 25th anniversary of Gordon Samstag's remarkable bequest, which led to establishment of the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships.
Quicksilver reflects on the impact of the Samstag Scholarships on the trajectory of Australian contemporary art. Pivotal works by six distinguished Samstag Scholars — including NIKE SAVVAS — highlights the exciting talent that the University of South Australia has had the pleasure of assisting over the last quarter century.
The exhibition runs from 14 October - 9 December 2016.
See this link for more information.
Image: Quicksilver: 25 Years of Samstag Scholarships, featuring work by Nike Savvas, 2016, installation detail, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia. Photograph by Sam Noonan.
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Nike Savvas, Halo, 2016, Install View
The installation of a new commissioned work by NIKE SAVVAS has been recently completed. The work called Halo is now part of the Waurn Ponds Estate, a conference centre designed by Mcglashan Everist, at Deakin University’s Waurn Ponds campus.
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NIKE SAVVAS is one of six distinguished artists exhibiting in Quicksilver: 25 Years of Samstag Scholarships. The exhibition celebrates the 25th anniversary of Gordon Samstag’s bequest, which led to establishment of the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships, and will showcase pivotal work by the participating artists. New work by Nike Savvas will be on view in the show.
Quicksilver will be on view from 14 October to 9 December 2016.
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Colours are the Country by Nike Savvas, Macquarie Group Sydney, 2015, UAP.
The making of NIKE SAVVAS's site-specific project, Colours are the Country, at 50 Martin Place for Macquarie Group has been featured in Episode 1 of the new SBS program, Big Art.
Big Art is a six part series on SBS, which follows Urban Art Projects (UAP) across six challenging public art commissions and edition art projects.
The episode may be streamed, via SBS On Demand, until 7 February 2016.
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Image by Lewis Roland
NIKE SAVVAS’ immersive art installation Reverie, in the Festival of Love at Southbank Centre, London, has been extended to 12 September 2015. SAVVAS’ multicoloured work is suspended across the ceiling of Royal Festival Hall and continues outside onto the balcony of the building. The work “embodies a state of play; a daydream; a moment of losing oneself within an undulating field of ambient colour”.
For more information please click here.
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Nike Savvas, Spark (3), 2014, pigment print, 111.5x112cm
NIKE SAVVAS’ work is part of a major exhibition titled Graphics Interchange Format: 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery at the Focal Point Gallery in Essex, U.K. The show features a multi-screen installation showcasing a collection made up of hundreds of GIF animations.
The exhibition will continue until 17 October 2015.
For more information click here.
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Nike Savvas, Sparks, installation view, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, 2014.
NIKE SAVVAS is featured in the latest issue of ARTAND magazine. The article, The Connective Experiences of Nike Savvas, discusses the artists’ ability to demonstrate the connectedness of art and the viewing experience, outside of the traditional gallery exhibition space.
The article can be found in Vol 52.2 Winter 2015 issue of ARTAND. For more information please click here.
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Image courtesty of Southbank Centre, London.
NIKE SAVVAS' work is currently in the Festival of Love at Southbank Centre, London. The festival starts today, June 6 and continues until August 31.
Spanning across the ceiling of the Royal Festival Hall, Nike's joyous work Reverie is an installation of thousands of rainbow coloured ribbons.
For more information please click here
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, NIKE SAAVAS, ANNE ZAHALKA
Anne Zahalka, Untitled (figure and pillar), 2015, Pigment ink on rag paper, 100cm x 66.6cm
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, NIKE SAAVAS and ANNE ZAHALKA will be part of the exhibition Lines of Force... Space + Displacement in the Sydney College of the Arts Gallery at the University of Sydney. The exhibition presents works by a selection of SCA Alumni whose practice is informed by the key considerations of space and displacement.
The exhibition will run 15 April - 2 May.
For more information, click here.
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Nike Savvas, Colours are the Country, 1 Martin Place Sydney.
NIKE SAVVAS has recently completed a major public art piece for the Macquarie Group in Sydney. This kaleidoscopic artwork consists of thousands of vibrant kinetic suspended, dual coloured discs that immerse the viewer in a continuous shifting mass of colours, intimating the subtle movement and changing colours that unfold during the spectacular Australian sunrise. The artwork is installed in a partially external 26 metre long lightwell, through the core of an iconic heritage building in Sydney.
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Nike Savvas, Sliding Ladders (detail view), 2014, wool, wood and stainless steel, 61 x 61 x 74 cm each.
NIKE SAVVAS' work is included in a curated group show titled Pattern, at Glen Eira City Council Gallery from 6 to 23 November 2014. The exhibition explores the use of geometric and abstract patterning in contemporary practice through the work of six artists, across a variety of mediums.
More information here
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Nike Savvas, Sparks (installation view), 2014, Howick Place, London.
NIKE SAVVAS is currently part of a major group exhibition in London, Paradigm Store at Howick Place, a new landmark development at the heart of Victoria’s rapidly emerging cultural quarter. Spread across five floors and 80,000 sq ft of Howick Place, the exhibition looks at the interface between art and design and the latent socio-economic and political forces that underpin it through new and recent work by seventeen UK and international artists.
Paradigm Store runs from 25 September to 5 November 2014.
For more information about the exhibition, click here
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Nike Savvas' Sliding Ladder: Octagonal Prism featured on the cover of ACCA Optical Mix booklet.
Optical Mix', a group exhibition at ACCA that includes the sculptures of NIKE SAVVAS, has been reviewed by Robert Nelson in The Age.
To read the review, click here.
Optical Mix is on until 28 September 2014.
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Nike Savvas, Epic 8000, 2013, Commission by Nike for NikeTown, San Francisco, glass and steel wire, 336 x 600 cm
NIKE SAVVAS is featured in the new publication Big Art Small Art by Tristan Manco. Scale is being taken to new extremes in art: big and bold on the one hand, intricate and intimate on the other. This book is divided into two sections, big art and small art, and includes profiles of forty-five contemporary artists who are revolutionising our approach to scale with works that provoke questions, arouse emotions and offer fresh perspectives. This survey comprises everything from beautifully carved leaves (Lorenzo Manuel Durán, Spain) and micro reproductions of artists at work in their studio (Joe Fig, USA) to giant mechanical kinetic sculptures (Theo Jansen, Netherlands) and immersive galaxies of shimmering spheres (Nike Savvas, Australia).
For more information click here.