Her installation features a compelling mix of different media: a confronting piece using mannequins, raw chillies, a series of photographs and discarded everyday objects. She uses medical scraps, wire, dismantled computer parts and various electrical junk. Her work is a documentation of memory and the effects of technology in our globalised, consumer- obsessed culture.
Artist Nectar Soliman is concerned with issues related to the natural and the artificial as well as the impact of what she describes as “cultural hybridity.” She invites the viewer to engage with the ideas presented on a deeper level and consider the validity of our changing perceptions of the environment.
Inspired by the organic and ephemeral nature of the chilli, her work primarily explores the ‘age of innocence’ morphed between greed and power. We see the heightened conflict that is evident in our increasingly materialistic and highly disturbed world.
Beauty, surgery, consumerism, transition and ethics are all intertwined to create a discussion that challenges us to question the value of our own existence.
Nectar Anne Soliman is a mixed-media artist from Sydney, currently working with photography and installation. She holds a degree in Visual Arts and Post Graduate Diploma in Education at the University of Western Sydney.
She completed her Post Graduate Studies in Arts Management at the University of Technology, Sydney. Nectar Anne is currently teaching Visual Arts and Photography at Killarney Heights High School on the upper North Shore.
In spite of her busy schedule teaching full-time, facilitating workshops, attending art shows along with her life as an artist, Nectar Anne has been globetrotting. She has travelled quite extensively, working and living in some of the most exotic cities in the world, that include London, Bristol, Madrid and Kuala Lumpur.
This experience has given her the edge to present fresh and innovative ideas, unleashing a much deeper passion for creating.
She has participated in many art shows, some of which include ACTION vs ACTION, a painting collaboration at Asia Arts Centre (4A Gallery Sydney) in 2009; Teachers Federation group show Fringe Cafe, 2004; World Cultural Festival Town Hall 2004; A Sense of Place at Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery in the late 90’s.
More recently, she was the curator of the yearend graduation show at Lorna Whiston Study Centre, at Kuala Lumpur in 2010. NectarAnne is the daughter of Dr. Tito and Neria Soliman.