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Hirik, Nevin
“For me painting is the key to my secret garden. When you are in, you are part of my garden; it is also your garden. It is all about sharing the stories. Life, memories, fun, happiness, tears, souls. My story, your story, our story.. Lovers, winners, losers, history, moving, tears, parting, happiness, surviving, welcoming, sharing, new life, family, friends, innocents, guilt, pure, mistakes, silence, beauty, beauty of the souls, dreams…lots of dream’s. Dreams to remember.” Nevin Hirik 2009
“Nevin uses her brush the way a musician uses a delicate musical instrument. On dark warm backgrounds feint lines travel gently and produce an environment of inner landscape. Those lines can turn into flowers and gently disappear to reappear again as drops. The music they produce is that of a harp, suggesting enigmatic, hesitant and lyrical contours of hidden horizons or ending of hilltops. Her paintings contain space, in which emotion travels, when a figure is presented it will appear two dimensional as a spirit, which dwells amongst that inner landscape of the wind. Those panoramas of landscapes are embroidered by Nevin’s soul and very inviting. It is easy for the viewer to lose himself in Nevin’s paintings. He who seeks refuge from harsh daily reality can find balance in the reality created by Nevin.” Rimona Kedem 2009
CV 1969 Born Bursa, Turkey 1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (Painting and Textile Design major) Uludag University, Turkey 1993 Arrived to Australia, Works and lives in Melbourne 1995 Melbourne Institute of Textiles, Australia SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2009 Dreams to Remember, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide Remember Your Childhood, Melaleuca Gallery, Anglesea, Melbourne Connections, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne 2008 Summer Group Exhibition, Paddington Contemporary Fine Art, Sydney End of Year Group Exhibition, NewNorth Gallery, Melbourne Speed of the Flows, Shanghai Yuandian Gallery, China 2007 Shanghai International Art Fair 07, Goya Galleries, China Chicago International Art Fair 07, Goya Galleries, Chicago Anguish, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide 2006 Confessione, Paul Gullotti Gallery, Perth Bid4Freedom 101 Artists, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne Leslie Goldstein Fine Art, New York Art Melbourne 06, Goya Galleries, Royal Exhibition Centre 2005 Morphine, Gadfly Gallery, Perth The Dark Journey, Goya Galleries, Melbourne Art Melbourne 05, Goya Galleries, Royal Exhibition Centre Sydney Art Fair 05, Goya Galleries, Fox Studios, Sydney Goya Collections, Goya Galleries, Melbourne 2004 New Collectables, Gadfly Gallery, Perth Sydney Art Fair, Goya Galleries, Fox Studios, Sydney Art Melbourne 04, Goya Galleries, Royal Exhibition Centre 2003 Morphing, Goya Galleries, Melbourne 2002 Between the Spires, Dante's Upstairs Gallery, Melbourne Connect, Goya Galleries, Melbourne UNESCO Nazim Hikmet Year, Darebin Arts Centre, Melbourne 2001 Night Dreams, Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne 2000 Saloni Mediterranean II, Roar Gallery, Melbourne Blue, Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne Anatolia to Australia, ImmigrationMuseum, Melbourne
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