Wash Over Me
What does it mean to walk a line between desire and disgust.
The bulbous forms are hard and stable, yet their blushing surfaces suggest something pulsing and alive. They seem to turn the body inside out, to expose what we spend our lives keeping hidden.
The forms sit among tiled columns that evoke the bathroom. The private chamber where we perform the daily ritual of scrubbing away what smells, what leaks, what marks us as human.
There is violence mixed with tenderness in the work. Metal rods pierce soft shapes. Needles slip into a slab of soap. Gestures that suggest both wound and salve, harm and healing.
Nalty shows how porous our bodies really are. Clean and unclean, beauty and ugliness, flesh and thought. Her objects inhabit this uneasy space, the border where shame and desire meet, and where what leaks out cannot be contained.
National Art School
Grad Show 2025
156 Forbes Street Darlinghurst
Opening Night: 4 Dec 2025 6pm
Exhibition: 5 - 14 Dec 2025
Blob Spike
2025
Found ceramic tiles, plaster, paraffin wax, oil paint, steel, aluminium
198 x 32 x 32 cm
Pinned Skin
2025
Found ceramic tiles, found latex sheet
197 x 40 x 40 cm
Healing
2025
Plywood, tile adhesive, ephemeral soap, pigment, found acupuncture needles
106 x 40 x 40 cm
Blob Spike
2025
Found ceramic tiles, plaster, paraffin wax, oil paint, steel, aluminium
198 x 32 x 32 cm
Tower of Filth
2025
Found ceramic tiles, found latex sheet, plaster, paraffin wax, oil paint
175 x 54 x 54 cm
Hairy Inside
2025
Plywood, tile adhesive, ephemeral soap and artist's hair
36 x 32 x 32 cm
Slippery Bit
2025
Found ceramic tiles, plaster, paraffin wax, oil paint and ephemeral soap
81 x 32 x 32 cm
Bathroom Fog
2025
Aluminium and renaisance wax
80 x 80 cm
Penetration
2025
Found ceramic tiles, plaster, paraffin wax, oil paint, aluminium
10 x 22 x 19cm