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Work

• A Wallpaper Story

• Orange skin for walls

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  Nina Levett's ornamental orange skin for walls integrates antique patterns, children's faces and illustration style work to create something absolutely new. Like old frescos but fresher and newer.

• Beautiful Moveable Wallpapers

• Wallpaper graphic pornamental designs

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  NINA LEVETT's wallpapers come in size 0,5mx10m. They are made of 140g/m2 digital and/or hand-printed and/or hand-illustrated paper.

  All designs can be combined with tableware and home textiles from the same collection.

• Ceramic Illusions

• Relief pink glaze piggy series

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  This is part of the vintage series. Nina Levett rediscovers old plates and reinvents them applying new prints and meanings and experiments with glazes and colours.

• Special Nina Levett Twist

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  In Gmunden near the Traunsee lake is the bossom of Gmundner Keramik a special Austrian design ceramic tradition. Nina Levett's twisted ceramic design is not similar to Gmundner Keramik, it is much more "dirty" and doesn't follow the simple colour code of the traditional pieces. It is more colourful, experimental and bright. However it is inspired by the very simple decorative glazed lines. And impressed by the long tradition of the "Grüngeflammt".

• Alpine Poesy black and white series

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  The Alpine Poesy collection is comprised of traditional symbols that are printed on products, and also presented on textiles with the Austrian Alps embroidered style of 'Heimat'. Mixing these traditional symbols with sexual images is somewhat strange and they work in contrast to each other.The combination of sex and Alps is a sort of sweet and sour mixture. It is unusual and comprises a type of criticism. It shouts. Open your eyes! Open your mouth! We’re all just human. The typical West-Austrian Alpine traditional symbolism has no space for sex, so I find it interesting to force these two themes together.

  Here you can see different versions of the same theme.

  On some plates you can see NINA LEVETT's woman without face and without hair. She is an abstraction. She is the body and not the individual. She stands for what females have in common because they share the same physical characteristics. Their lives are partly predetermined by the functioning of their bodies and minds. The need for love, the wish to be loved. The possibility to have a child. The romantic fantasy to be able to find the right man and to stay with him forever. To search the world for the right one. The right one: the white prince on the blue horse. Until the end of their days together. But she has more days left for herself and their children after their separation and she won’t stop hoping.

• Sperm Plates

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  The fertility theme is a general one, and regards each individual. Every one of us is derived from a little victorious sperm! The sperm patterns can be funny, but they can also be in orderly or chaotic. Each plate seems to be made for a certain personality.

  My identity as a mother is a very personal thing. And yet it has been really THE moment in my life; it's been the most fundamental change in my life to date.

  The fertility and sperm series was originally meant to tell a very sad story. I wanted to show the growth of a baby, and then tell the story of how the relationship with the father of the children deteriorated, forcing the woman to leave with two babies in great exasperation. It is also the story of how the father of the children invented an untrue story, and then went to court and tried to get custody. He has terrorized her every since she left him. Life has never been the same for her since. The words don’t come when I try to tell that story, so I struggle with it, and out of that, came this concept of the fertility plates.

• Fashion

• Collages

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  Different products from the camouflage collection.

• Home Textiles & Accessories

• Alpine Poesy Bags

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  The subject chosen for these bags were flowers and alpine motives, a combination of two themes I worked on for several years.  The colours are a combination of nailcolour glosses.

  Camouflage Couture is about repeating images, much like the militarylook of it's namesake. The patterns are combined in wallpaper, fashion,plates and accessories, and furniture so that they all blend into oneand disappear.

  My designs work with the fact that the woman of the house has historically been seen as a sort of household object; looking nice, perfect body, being sexy and speaking rarely. So, I thought the perfect clothing to go with this idea of the 'housewife' could be pieces that make her disappear; they would be the same color and print as the tiles in the bathroom, or as the sheets on the bed, all blending into one. This is the bag you can put over her head in case she didn't have her hair done today or she's without makeup....

• Geometrical nothingness

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  Nina Levett's geometric shapes and patterns decorate this white resin floor. The idea behind the project was to create a space of nothingness allowing contemplative meditation in the eyes of the beholder. The silver on white colour scheme blends and makes higher or lower visible contrast as to different light conditions.

• Illustrations & Pornamental Graphics

• Editorial illustration work

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  An international design magazine which explores the potential andpossibilities of experimental editorial design has chosen myillustrations for a new issue of their ongoing award-winning projectabout "humour".

  I asked: What's your favourite joke? She said: A woman goes into a sporting goods store to buy a gun. "It's for my husband," she tells the clerk. "Did he tell you what caliber to get?" asked the clerk." "Are you kidding?" she says. "He doesn’t even know that I am going to shoot him!"

  Nina Levett represented by Caroline Seidler for this project:

  Rosebud Magazine no. 7

• Diverse illustrations

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  I don't know how what I do in art is linked to how I think and what I have experienced in my life outside of art. I usually work with ideas and concepts, but when I do things the concept isn't on my mind. When I create an artwork or illustration it just flows out of me and explanations can be given only before and after the making of an artwork.

  Some of my personal themes were present in my very early work before I actually lived them.

  These are useful when I want to work directly in flow with my inner self. Usually when I write words come easily and without prior thinking as I write, drawing happens exactly as easily as that.

• Experimental illustrations

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  My technique is secondary to the theme, but I find that I work best with multiple projects in varying medias that are in progress all at once. My techniques, be it applying ink with my fingers, or with a silkscreen, are all developed with the will to experiment and to try new things. I find that the best ideas sometimes come from unexpected results. Being a mother, as well as an artist, I am very used to multi-tasking. Now, I have the advantage that my children help me with my work and sometimes come up with better ideas than I do!

  Hand-drawings, depending on the project, are often the last part of my work process. I feel that they are the most important and direct way to find out what’s on a mind, and I find this process to be very intuitive. It's like the ideas flow out of my pen or brush and I just have to help it happen. These hand-drawn illustrations and written texts are often the finishing touches to my work. They are like the salt in the soup!

• Some more illustrations

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  Sexual motives that are used for the designs of wallpapers and plates.

• Alpine illustration work

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  Alpine Poesy is a theme that was developed for a Hotel in the Alps. From the imagery of this project lots of other work has evolved.

  The Alpine Poesy collection is comprised of traditional symbols that are printed on products, and also presented on textiles with the Austrian Alps embroidered style of 'Heimat'. Mixing these traditional symbols with sexual images is somewhat strange and they work in contrast to each other. The combination of sex and Alps is a sort of sweet and sour mixture. It is unusual and comprises a type of criticism. It shouts. Open your eyes! Open your mouth! We’re all just human. The typical West-Austrian Alpine traditional symbolism has no space for sex, so I find it interesting to force these two themes together.