Cheesecake at the Hilton

Ink and watercolour on 250gsm natural-toned paper.

My grandmother’s homemade baked cheesecake has been a lifelong weakness of mine - the kind that quietly sets a very high benchmark early on and tends to linger.

Recently, I encountered one that came almost close, which was enough to trigger a new series devoted to childhood memory, comfort, and the strange authority of food over our emotional lives.
I didn’t expect this reckoning to occur in a Hilton lobby café, yet here I am, returning with suspicious regularity, all in the name of art. The cheesecake insists ;)

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Born in and surrounded by the natural beauty of the Tasmanian landscape, Nicole has been attuned to observe and interpret her world through artistic expression from a very young age. Trained at the Art School of Tasmania and Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, she works intuitively with oils and experimental media, including natural pigments and Dead Sea mud. Design theory and classical training are broken down and reassembled into a subtly complex visual language that balances freedom and structure. Her work has been exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions, with public acquisitions, commissions, and pieces held in both public and private collections across Australia.