The Samstag Alumni
The 1996 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
John Kelly | John R. Neeson | Nike Savvas | Kathy Temin | Angela Valamanesh
Nike Savvas' often beautiful ensembles comfortably resist descriptive reduction, conceived as they are on a layered platform of critical enquiry, for example of form, colour and language. Operating ostensibly through abstract, coded and formalist methodologies, Savvas also invests her work with historical and allegorical references, sometimes redolent of her Greek and migrant heritage.
The dimensions of her practice are well communicated in Untitled, a 1994 installation which functions not only as ironic metaphor for the 19th century colour theory of Seurat, but, in its extraordinary kinetic effect, as a kind of celebration of post-modern upheaval
Ross Wolfe
Director, Samstag Program
from the 1996 Samstag catalogue
Samstag's Class of '96
| NIKE SAVVAS Born 1964, Sydney, Australia |
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| 1996 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship: Associate Research Program, Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom |
| 1994 | Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 1992 | Diploma in Education (Secondary Education), University of Sydney, Australia |
| 1990 | Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney , Australia |
| 1988 | Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, Australia |
Untitled (detail) 1994
installation of polystyrene spheres,
acrylic paint, fishing line, vinyl on acetate, fans
850 x 1000 cm
© the artist
Untitled (detail) 1994
installation of polystyrene spheres,
acrylic paint, fishing line, vinyl on acetate, fans
850 x 1000 cm
© the artist