Nina Juniper

11. Nina Juniper, Framework, 2024, 2-colour screen print on ply with constructed timber frame, 41.1 x 69 x 3cm. SOLD

Cities are continually reshaped by the construction of buildings, where the framework itself becomes a crucial part of the urban landscape. The skeletal structures—scaffolds, steel beams, concrete supports—serve as temporary yet essential elements in the building process. Among these, brace frameworks play a vital role, providing stability and strength to the structure during its construction. These diagonal supports, often arranged in intricate patterns, counterbalance forces and help the building stand firm as it rises. While they are designed for structural integrity, the interplay of lines and angles they create introduces a dynamic visual rhythm to the site. These frameworks hold the potential of the spaces to come, but in their raw and exposed form, they create a unique visual language of their own.

Nina Juniper (b. Australia, 1991) works across photo and print-based mediums. Graduating in Fine Art (Printmaking) from Curtin University in 2012, she was the recipient of the Fine Art Graduate Award, before completing Honours (1st Class) in 2019, for which she was also recipient of the Honours Fine Studio Award and selected for the Hatched exhibition at PICA. Through her photography and print-based practice, Nina explores the built environment and the frenetic rate of change and transitory nature of our everyday surroundings. She has exhibited across Australia in solo, two person and group exhibitions.