Emerging artist, Jillian Nalty, has exhibited in a variety of group shows in Sydney and also Los Angeles, where she lived for five years, balancing a successful career in advertising with her art practice. In 2020 she returned to Australia to complete her artistic studies at the National Art School. As part of her art education, she has been working as a studio assistant for artist, Maria Fernanda Cardoso. Her curiosity about the world has lead her to live in a variety of places throughout most of her adult life including London, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Mexico and Nicaragua.
Her practice draws from her life experiences and explores themes of family, relationships, sex, and reproduction. In her large scale figurative drawings, each piece is broken down into shades of light, texture, and form using a repetitive process of hand-drawing tiny circles. Through repetition, she mimics the phenomena of homogeneity, mass production, and anonymity; examining how these forces impact relationships and social structures. She has recently begun to expand her practise to sculpture, where is she enjoying working with materials such as wax, resin, string and paper.