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No Water, No Life. No Blue, No Green.
Sylvia Earle
NINA CHRISTESEN
Nina Christesen is a Melbourne-based abstract landscape artist whose work explores the Australian environment through aerial perspectives, natural forces and geological structures.
Her approach is informed by a background in documentary film-making, which has shaped her interest in observation, composition and visual storytelling.
Drawing on experiences of Australia’s coastlines, inland landscapes and mineral-rich environments, she develops paintings that move between recognisable references to landscape and abstraction.
Working primarily in acrylics, Nina combines fluid, layered and textured processes to create original works that reflect the movement, complexity and continual transformation of the natural world.

ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores the Australian landscape through three interconnected perspectives: its surface, the forces that shape it, and the mineral structures within it.
Inspired by aerial imagery and my experiences of Australia’s diverse natural environments, my work draws on coastlines, inland terrain, water systems and geological formations.
Rather than depicting particular places, I use these sources as starting points for abstraction.
My background in documentary film-making influences the way I construct a painting, particularly my attention to composition, movement and visual flow.
Working with acrylics, I combine fluid movement with layered and textured processes, allowing the behaviour of the paint to suggest processes occurring within the natural world.
Across my work, forms accumulate, separate, erode and shift.
Some paintings consider the landscape from above, revealing terrain, boundaries and traces of change. Others focus on the energy of water and natural forces, or move closer to the veins, deposits and structures found within rocks and minerals.
Together, these perspectives explore landscape not as something static, but as a living system continually shaped by movement, pressure and time.
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