Anie Nheu is an Australian artist working in Sydney on the unceded lands of the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora Nation.
Materials, their transitional qualities, and the relational spaces they occupy are central to Nheu's practice. Working with manufacturing by-products and materials from the natural environment, she draws out histories of function, labour, consumption, and exchange — histories that become ideas and visual metaphors within the work.
Treating materials as active participants, she engages their intrinsic and incidental qualities with assemblages , drawing relations through disparity. The installations use rudimentary fastening and joining methods. Setting against contemporary manufactured materials, they highlight the distinct forms of embodied knowledge and technological production.
Observation and making are her modes of inquiry, through which experience is examined and understood. This process of working-through — a 'revision' — sees materials, relationships, and ideas continually gauged and reconfigured to generate new knowledge.
Selected Exhibitions, Projects, Awards
2026
Byproducts II, Platform, Canberra Contemporary, Manuka ACT
2025
Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriage Works, Newtown
2024
Byproducts, SLOTprojects, Alexandria
Flotsam jetsam, SLOTwindow, Alexandria
2023
Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriage Works, Newtown
SLOT20, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield
Passing Through, Slot, Alexandria
2019
Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriage Works, Newtown
Group Print Show, Factory49, Marrickville
A silver voice from the corner, 2018
2018
Feeling Bodies, The Waiting Room, Sydney Hospital
Constellation In the Cranny (solo), AIRspace Projects, Marrickville
Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriage Works, Newtown
Waverley Art Prize, Highly Commended (Mixed Media Category)
2017
On Paper (solo), Factory49, Marrickville
Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriage Works, Newtown
2016
Forms on Edge (solo), AirSpace Projects, Marrickville
Youkobo Art Space a Tokyo Residency Open Sttudio Liquid, Paper and the Space in Between
2015
The elephant in the room, Slot, Redfern
Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriage Works, Newtown
Openings [a group painting exhibition], AirSpace Projects, Marrickville
2014
Intimate Worlds [a group painting exhibition], AirSpace Projects, Marrickville
2012
Several Ways of Conversations (collaborative drawing exhibition as 3ppod), Shihan Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Remarking | Remaking, Blacktown Art Centre, Sydney
Yarns between Bubbles (collaborative drawing as 3ppod), Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
2010
Bodies in Sustained Emotions. galleryeight, Sydney
2008
At the Periphery of Space. Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
2007
My Story (group) Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2006
Tim Olsen Drawing Prize Kudos Gallery (Commended)
2004
Out On a Limb (group) Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2003
Stitched, Naked (solo) 4A Gallery
Hazelhurst Art Award: Art on Paper (Finalist)
Training
2004-2007 MFA (Distinction) College of Fine Arts, UNSW
2004 Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship
1994-1997 BFA (Honours Degree, Class 1) College of Fine Arts, UNSW
Professional Developments
2014-current Assists with projects at SLOT
2024-2026 Assists with projects at UPSpace Gallery
2017-2018 Committee member of AIRSpace Projects
2016 Artist Residency, Youkobo Artspace
2007 International Drawing Research Institute Symposium, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing