Nina Walton is a visual artist currently based in Sydney/Gadigal, Australia. Working across the mediums of textiles, painting, drawing, installation, performance and books, Nina’s practice sits within a tradition of conceptual art and abstraction that uses pre-determined rules to generate work, with the grid operating as a basic organising principle. While endeavouring to adhere to strict rules, the work is explicitly handmade, with all the contingencies and human error that entails. Nina’s work also engages with the process of art’s distribution. To that end, she has created Salon Magdalena (@salonmagdalena_), converting her apartment to an art space to exhibit other artists’ work as and when feels right.
In addition to her art practice, Nina is an economist and lawyer. Living in Los Angeles for many years, she earned her PhD in Economics, specialising in Game Theory, from the University of California in Los Angeles and was a Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Southern California. Drawing from her decades of art making, studying and teaching, all of Nina’s work focuses on how people deal with rules, systems and limitations.
ninawalton@mac.com