Nicci Haynes

Nicci Haynes is an artist based in Canberra, Australia after first training as a pharmacologist in Cardiff, Wales and much later visual art at Australian National University. Earlier in life Nicci was a traveller and an adventurer and now applies those qualities to her artwork. She is motivated by enquiry and experimentation, liking to mix digital and analogue technology: overhead projectors, old TVs, new data projectors, old film, electronics, the photocopier. The raw, improvised aesthetic of out-dated technology finds its way into Nicci’s mad-scientist constructions: a radio installation constructed from bare electronics and chaotic wiring filling an entire gallery space; a large keyboard-operated drawing-instrument conceived of as a sort of synthesiser to play the sounds of drawing; an animation machine along the lines of the zoetrope made from a hills-hoist rotating clothes line; an animation printed on till-roll receipts;