Nabilah Nordin





SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025Scripts
Neon Parc, Melbourne
2024Primary Matter
Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles
2023The Australian Embassy
Washington DC, United States
 2023The National 4: Australian Art Now
Art Gallery of New South Wales
2022Prop Shop
Neon Parc, Melbourne
2021Birdbrush and Other Essentials
Heide MOMA, Melbourne
2021Please Do Not Eat the Sculptures
Missing Persons, Melbourne
2020Covergirl Adhesives
COMA Gallery, Sydney
2019An Obstacle in Every Direction
Singapore Biennale, Singapore


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024Undo the Day
National Art School, Sydney
2023Keith Sonnier: Live in Your Head
Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles
2023Fantastic Forms
Bundanon Art Museum, Bundanon
2023So Red It Looks Black
COMA Gallery, Sydney
2022Parade for the Moon
RISING, Melbourne
2021Connecting the World through Sculpture
MUMA Monash, Melbourne









Scripts
Neon Parc, Melbourne



(1) Variation, 2024, welded steel, exterior epoxy modelling compound, exterior acrylic paint
190 x 80 x 48 cm

(2) Frequency, 2024, welded steel, exterior epoxy modelling compound, exterior acrylic paint
184 x 108 x 74 cm

(3) Phrase, 2024, welded steel, exterior epoxy modelling compound, exterior acrylic paint 
179 x 81 x 49 cm

(4) Interval, 2024, welded steel, exterior epoxy modelling compound, exterior acrylic paint
192 x 64 x 40 cm

(5) Torque, 2024, welded steel, exterior epoxy modelling compound, exterior acrylic paint
201 x 48 x 43 cm

(6) Century, 2024, welded steel, exterior epoxy modelling compound, exterior acrylic paint
173 x 114 x 52 cm

(7) Veil, 2024, welded steel, exterior epoxy modelling compound, exterior acrylic paint
186 x 103 x 67 cm


Exhibition Statement
March 7–April 5, 2025


‘Scripts’ marks a major shift in Nabilah Nordin’s practice, featuring seven sculptures that distil her dynamic approach into a language of flowing, sinuous and distinctly enigmatic forms. Following a string of high-profile exhibitions in Los Angeles—where the artist is now based—the new sculptures in ‘Scripts’, refine the artists material experimentation, emphasizing structure, movement and spatial interplay.

Nordin’s recent sculptures function as drawings in space—gestural, fluid, and responsive. Each begins with an intuitive line, translated into steel through processes of bending, welding, and assembling. The rigidity of metal yields to an expressive, almost calligraphic sensibility, as if the forms were suspended in a state of continuous transformation. This process of manipulation captures fleeting moments of material tension, rendering each sculpture a choreography of precise flourishes and movement.



Biography, Exhibitions