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Dan Nelson is a Muloobinba-based artist whose paintings are abstract yet strongly connected to the Australian landscape, particularly through colour and the quality of light. Her works play with strange ambiguities, drifting between recognisable elements and the sensed experience of a particular place and moment in time.
Nelson holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts and originally trained as a fine arts printmaker. This foundation in print processes and aesthetics continues to inform her practice as a painter. She tends to work in sequences, a practice that stems from the repetitive, mutative nature of the printmaking process and reflects her interest in temporality – how time shapes our sense of being in the world.
Nelson has had five solo exhibitions and participated in several curated group exhibitions. She was selected as the University of Newcastle Alumni Awards Artist for 2022. In 2023 she was Highly Commended in the 2024 Milburn Art Prize for Landscape and was selected as a finalist in the 9×5 Landscape Art Prize 2024. Her work is represented in the University of Newcastle Collection and in many private collections.
Established in 2021, the National Emerging Art Prize was created to provide an annual, highly visible national platform to identify, promote and support the most promising emerging visual and ceramic artists in Australia.
