Other side art: Trevor Nickolls, a survey of paintings and drawings 1972–2007 13 May 2009 to 02 Aug 2009 Guest Curator: Michael O'Ferrall Other side art brought together more than fifty paintings and drawings from around Australia. The exhibition recognised Nickolls’s pioneering role in the struggle by a generation of Aboriginal artists to forge a new position within the mainstream of Australian art and culture at a particularly vital juncture in the continent’s history. Largely based on a chronological sequence of paintings with the addition of selected works on paper, groups of works were arranged to explore different facets of the artist’s interests: the interplay between human psychology and the polemical and political, the cityscape and unmodified landscape, and the harmony/disharmony between the spiritual and the material. An Ian Potter Museum of Art/NETS Victoria Touring Exhibition. Sponsor: Sidney Myer Fund Related Downloads nickolls_text_panel.pdf other_side_art_brochure.pdf     01| Trevor Nickolls, ‘Inside looking out 2’ 1988, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 106 x 91.5 cm, State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased 1991. © Courtesy Trevor Nickolls   © Copyright 2009 The University of Melbourne. All rights reserved.