Nina Grant is a multi-disciplinary artist working in painting, printmaking, installation, performance
and the digital realm.

I use my practice to explore the human condition, drawing on my own experiences of motherhood, grief, relationships, rest and survival.  I continue to be fascinated with what it means to be human, but find I am increasingly disappointed with the human race. My work now seeks to give voice to stories of human impact, and stories of hope in an uncertain world.

 

Recently, I have been exploring climate change through learning about seaweed, particularly kelp.  I have fallen in love with its skin-like qualities, it's colours, and its many roles in our future, both environmental and medical. Its luminous colours are now infilitrating my figurative paintings, as I celebrate its beauty and grieve its decline.

 

In my printmaking practice I am working with fire and water to create weathered surfaces.  Inviting elemental forces into my work is a way of collaborating with nature, and removing myself from central control, which requires me to be patient and responsive.  I am building these layers into portraits of children as I contemplate the legacy we are leaving, and our changing relationship to the wild.