Adam Nudelman

Born 1967, Melbourne, Victoria.

With an artistic career spanning 25 years, Nudelman has exhibited widely and his paintings, drawings and prints feature in prominent private, corporate and public collections.

He has maintained a continuous practice as an artist since graduating in Fine Arts from Victorian College of the Arts in 1992.

“Nudelman’s work contains a subtle discourse surrounding displacement and cultural identity, where the landscape becomes a vehicle for the artist’s search to fully comprehend his place in the world. The grandson of Polish Jewish immigrants, Nudelman’s connection to his homeland was shrouded in secrecy, and the unspoken histories of people who suffered cataclysmic trauma during World War II. As his family heritage began to unfold, his work began to express the tension between belonging to Australian society, versus a feeling of dislocation from his newly revealed Jewish heritage.

In Nudelman’s work, a detailed observation of the natural world is imbued with psychological and emotional layers of meaning, as the artist explores the idea of a homeland and a sense of disconnection, and isolation from it. Yet despite the melancholy that exists in many works, an evocation of hope is always present in the beauty Nudelman extracts from his subject, via his cool breed of refined realism. Nudelman’s deep empathy for the plight of displaced people is subtly evoked in works that reflect his own journey of identity, and the universal hope for a better future.”

– Marguerite Brown, MA ArtCur