Trevor Nickolls (8 June 1949 – 29 September 2012[1]) was a Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal Australian artist, known for his high-key acrylic paintings juxtaposing Western Desert 'dot-painting' and Arnhem Land 'cross-hatching' with western symbolism.
He was recognised for the concurrent themes exploring industrial and spiritual societal experience, and European Australian and Indigenous Australian themes, which he referred to as "Machinetime and Dreamtime".
He met Warlpiri artist Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa, a member of the influential Papunya school, and travelled throughout Arnhem Land, gaining practical experience of links between life, culture and land.
It wraps itself around you, full of spirit, the space, the Dreaming, imagining how it was once.
In 2013 he posthumously won the Blake Prize for his work Metamorphosis.