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Be My Once In A Lifetime, Fiona and Sidney Meyer Gallery curated by David Sequeira
Rachel Button, Nick Mullaly and Nabilah Nordin
Allowing ideas around
tenderness, romance, clumsiness and dagginess to bubble away and percolate within their studio practices,
Rachel Button, Nick Mullaly and Nabilah Nordin have developed new video, paintings and sculptures that can be
connected with the messy sweetness that we know as love. I can’t help thinking about the awkwardness of
relationships when I consider Nabilah Nordin’s sculptural processes of pushing, pressing and embellishing. Often
precariously balanced, the intensely worked surfaces give little indication of their underlying structural support.
Rachel Button’s video, positioned as a pearl within plastic sandpit/ wading pool clam shells alludes to the
persistence of internalised monologues that seem par for the course of being in a relationship. For me, entering
the warm glow of Nick Mullaly’s dreamy imagery is like soaking in a visual love song. I am deeply indebted to Dr
Lisa Radford for generously accepting the invitation to write about this project with such energy and enthusiasm.
Who else would write an essay on Valentine’s Day?
Special thanks to Gallery Coordinator Joon Youn and art installers, Ashley Perry, Zamara Robison and Michael
Sandford.
Dr David Sequeira
