Nimmi Hutnik

I am one of the artists included in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020 Exhibition. I was also included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition of 2019. Trained originally as a psychologist, I focus on human states of mind such as exhaustion, angst, grief, joy and resilience. I ‘paint’ with oils, acrylics, bamboo pens, inks, my iPad, acrylic markers and traditionally marginalised tools such as Sharpies and sketchbook paper. I create a balance of emptiness and coloured space to embody the Japanese concept of Wabi Sabi. Wabi Sabi is a philosophy and an aesthetic that emphasizes the impermanence, imperfection and incompleteness of life. Another Japanese concept fascinates me. Kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold such that the value of the mended piece is greater than that of the original. As a philosophy, it is seen as similar to Wabi-Sabi, which is the embracing of the flawed or the imperfect. Not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, the repair is highlighted and celebrated as part of the history of the object. While painting, I mindfully attend to both my internal and eternal worlds to open a space in which adversity is transformed into something beautiful.

MA in Painting UAL Wimbledon College of the Arts.

Doctorate in Psychology Oxford University, UK
Chartered Counselling Psychologist
Accredited Cognitive Behaviour Therapist
MA in Clinical Psychology New Delhi, India
BA(Hons) Psy. New Delhi India

Bloomberg New Contemporaries South London Gallery London January 13 -March 7 2021

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition Trinity
Buoy Wharf, London Salisbury, Leicester January 25-June 26 2019

Squeezed The Nunnery London, May 2-5 2019

Hollow Chambers The Crypt Gallery London, March 5-10 2019

Artopia Yunus Emre Institute London, January 11-19 2019.

Dissecting the Archive MA Grad show at Wimbledon College of Art. London, 2018

Haselmere Art Society Group Exhibition Haselmere Surrey, 2013

The Loft Gallery Grayshott Surrey, 2011

Surrey Open Artists Studios Ellanby Lodge Surrey, 2010

Battle Fine Art Fair Group Exhibition Battle West Sussex, 2010