Master of her craft

Nabilah Nordin made her name with her bold, playful sculptures. After relocating overseas, her latest exhibition displays her most confident and profound works yet.

Hannah-Rose Yee

A year ago, sculptor Nabilah Nordin and her partner, painter Nick Modrzewski, packed up their lives in Melbourne and moved to Los Angeles. They were approaching 10 years since graduating with masters degrees from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and over that time, Nordin had already made her mark: an installation of her teetering, towering sculptures at the entrance of the Art Gallery of New South Wales at 2023’s The National, an appearance at the Singapore Biennale in 2019, and a public art commission for a bright orange abstract caricature of a figure on its way to work called The Tie and the Undercoat (2023) that now stands proudly in the grounds of the Australian Embassy in Washington, DC. “We knew that we needed to begin a new…

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Vogue Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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