The artist thread of family memory
Nice 'n Easy: a woven history showcases Naomi Ullmann's artworks, personal objects from her parents and grandparents & works from the University of Tasmania's Tyler Collection of Romanian art.
Naomi Ullmann has long been intrigued by fate and chance. For the Bondi-born, Illawarra-based artist, both are woven into her own family story.
She is the daughter of Romanian Jewish survivors of the Shoah, a history that continues to shape her work.
Nice ‘n Easy: a woven history, is Ullmann’s exhibition at the Tyler Gallery in Hobart, which has been three years in the making. It brings together her own pieces with works from the University of Tasmania’s Tyler Collection of Romanian art, alongside personal objects from her parents and grandparents.
“An artwork speaks to me if it moves me in a visceral way, makes me very present in that moment,” Ullmann said.
Her drawings for the show take their cues from the flora of the Rarau Massif and the traditional motifs of Bukovina, where her mother, Shula, grew up. To realise them, she worked with an embroiderer in her mother’s hometown.
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