Amina Mcconvell

Amina McConvell B. Larrakia Country [Darwin] 1983, Based Larrakia Country, Northern Territory is a practicing visual artist and works as a co-executive officer and the creative producer of Arts Access at Darwin Community Arts (DCA).

Amina is about to complete a Master of Visual Arts by Research at Charles Darwin University, for her installation work titled '90 Seconds to Midnight: Interiors for End of Days' and the accompanying exegesis. Having previously completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) at the National Art School in Sydney and a Bachelor of Creative Arts & Industries with honours at Charles Darwin University. Amina's work Uncertainty Factors was included in Hatched: The National Graduates Exhibition at PICA, where she was one of four artists nationally to receive an honourable mention. Amina was awarded a Darmasiswa Scholarship by the Indonesian Government to study for 1-year at the Indonesian Institute of Art, Yogyakarta, supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust.

In her contemporary art practice Amina works primarily with Formalist Abstraction, Geometric Conceptualism and Non-Objective Abstraction within a practice spanning large-scale mural painting, wall drawing, sculptural assemblage and installation. Amina's practice is responsive to changing and layered contexts; with each project being developed in response to a specific concept or area of research, engaging with a range of ideas from scientific philosophy to interpretations of abstraction and intuitive composition.

Amina has exhibited her mural and installation works extensively across Australia, Southeast Asia and internationally, including at; Watch This Space (Alice Springs) Jogja Gallery (Yogyakarta/Indonesia), Sangkring Project Space (Yogyakarta/Indonesia), KRACK! STUDIO (Yogyakarta/Indonesia), Griffith University Art Gallery (Brisbane), Verge Gallery/University of Sydney, Firstdraft (Sydney), Sydney Non-Objective (Sydney), J-Studio (Manila/Philippines), 98B COLLABoratory (Manila/Philippines), c3 Contemporary Art Space (Melbourne), Unit 1 Workshop & Gallery (London/UK) and Despina Contemporary Art Space (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil). Amina has been included in the Gertrude Contemporary Studio 18 program and have received numerous prestigious grants and awards for my work as a visual artist, including from the Northern Territory Government, The Australia Council for the Arts, The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust.