Melbourne/Victoria
Nina Killham has lived many places in the world and nothing has moved her like the forests of Australia. Her muse is the tree. Her artistic aim is to give photographic voice to its emotions.
Artworks: 26
Nina Killham’s eye returns again and again to the tree. Her work ranges from stylized pictures of local forests to close-ups of the colourful bark to more abstract and surreal images of the stories she sees within the bark.
Her art practice is a meditation on the need to protect the sanctity of these beautiful trees. As her photography evolves, she tries to penetrate further into what nature is trying to reveal. Her latest series, Tree Museum, which showcases tree trunks as statues of the antiquity, takes its inspiration from Joni Mitchell’s words: ‘They took all the trees, put ’em in a tree museum and they charged the people a dollar an’ a half just to see ’em.”
Her work has appeared in many galleries in Melbourne and Victoria, such as The Counihan Gallery, The Burringa Cultural Centre, the Sol Gallery and the Centre for Contemporary Photography.
Recently she received an arts grant from the City of Melbourne to use her photography in a children’s book about urban trees. She belongs to the MAVA Collective (Melbourne and Victorian Artists).
An active climate crisis campaigner, she started a website called Treegazing.com to inform about the devastation of deforestation in Australia.
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