The Big Picture

Artist : Mike Nicholls

Material : Stringybark

Year Created : 2001

Special Note : The Street Furniture Project

Artist's Location : Melbourne

Type : Sculpture

Size : 4.2 x 0.6 x 8.7m

Created and installed from; 2001 The Street Furniture Project. Funded by Armidale 3rd City of the Arts, Walcha Arts Council and Walcha Council with assistance from State Forests NSW, NPWS and Fenning Timbers. The idea behind this sculpture was to frame the perspectives of both sides of the Apsley River

THE ARTIST:

Mike Nicholls is a multi-talented artist. He is as adept with the paintbrush as the chainsaw, the pencil and the chisel. His paintings over recent years have been pared back, bordering at times on the minimal. His sculpture is the opposite — gnarled and elegant, brutal and beatific, it is nothing if not complex.