Claudia Nicholson is an interdisciplinary artist based on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia). Her practice examines psychic and physical connections to place through multidisciplinary forms of art making including painting, installation, performance and video. She is interested in creating acts of collective remembrance, exploring the ways in which we navigate the complexities of identity in a post-colonial context.

The conceptual enquiries in Nicholson’s practice are driven by her position as a Colombian-born artist living in Australia. Her practice addresses the Diasporic position, specifically in the Asia Pacific region, and in addition, connects with the varied experiences of the Australian Latinx community. Her work blends artistic practices local to Central and South America with her own in an ongoing attempt to situate herself in a history and culture from which she is separate, specifically, silletas and alfombras de aserrín. Nicholson adopts these practices – with their complex imbrication of both colonial and indigenous lineages – as a platform from which to articulate the complexity of identity. These artforms are transient, adaptable, and resilient becoming sites for celebration and resistance.

In 2017 Nicholson was awarded the 2017 NSW Emerging Visual Arts Fellowship. In 2019 she was commissioned by Museum of Contemporary Art and Vivid Sydney Festival to create a light installation for the facade of the MCA and presented new commissioned work, By Your Side at the Art Gallery of NSW. She is currently a third time finalist of the Sir John Sulman Prize. Recent exhibitions include: A Park is Not a Forest, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery 2022, Looking at Painting, Casula Powerhouse 2021, Belonging Art Gallery of NSW 2019, Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism, ACCA, Melbourne 2017, The NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney; The National; New Australian Art, Carriageworks, Sydney, 2017.Her work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of NSW, Artbank and Campbelltown Arts Centre.