Alison Road Wirragulla, 2016, oil on composition board, Artists Collection Happy to announce that I have been selected as a finalist for the 2017 NSW Parliemant Plein Air Painting Prize. Winners announced October 11, 2017. #australianart #pleinairpainting #nicolechaffey #landscapepainting #nswparliamentpleinairpaintingprize

a place for our bones is a collection of stories… Grandmother’s Bones are symbols of the life of the artist’s great great grandmother, daughter of an Aboriginal domestic servant and Irish wharf-worker, born in the former Plymouth Inn on Cumberland Street in Sydney’s the Rocks in 1878. The site has since been the subject of extensive archaeological investigation with thousands of artefacts discovered and now housed within the Discovery Museum. The artefacts found in the earth

I am very pleased to announce the details for my upcoming solo exhibition at AK Bellinger Gallery Inverell. A place for our bones draws from the collective work of the past four years, an introspective investigation of family ties, relinquished histories and reclaimed identity. Opens Friday 21 April AK Bellinger Gallery 27 Otho Street Inverell NSW 0439 180 346 #nicolechaffey #artexhibition #grandmothersbones #aplaceforourbones #painting #aboriginalart #australianart #australi