The University of Melbourne has unveiled a major exhibition by Melbourne-based artist Nadine Christensen, representing her first career survey to date. Titled Around, the exhibition is presented at Buxton Contemporary, the University of Melbourne’s contemporary art museum, from 24 November 2023 to 7 April 2024.

Spanning more than two decades of work, this milestone moment in Christensen’s career will see key works from 1998 to now. The exhibition will include rarely seen works from private lenders and a new series of ambitiously scaled paintings, alongside five new commissions including interventions to the museum’s architecture and large-scale audience-activated kinetic works.

Over 80 artworks will detail an exploration into the enduring nature and complex legacy of painting, an enquiry that lies at the heart of Nadine Christensen’s practice. Large-scale sculptural and kinetic works created from seemingly incidental and overlooked source material gathered from Christensen’s immediate environment reveal her ongoing interest in the interplay of everyday life and art.