Simeon

Nelson

SIMEON NELSON

17-09-2005 - 15-10-2005

Simeon Nelson works with sculpture, installation and public projects. His work looks at relationships between nature and technology; how nature is mediated by technology and science on one hand and art on the other.

Previous public and commissioned work includes a monumental statue of Australian Prime Minister, Ben Chifley in Chifley Square, Sydney; a two-kilometer long sculptural intervention on the M4 freeway in Sydney´s west and numerous commissions and consultancies with architects in England and Australia.

He has deployed a huge range of materials, techniques and ideas in his career, most of which has been spent living and exhibiting in Australia and Asia. Born in London he moved to Sydney in 1967 He returned to England in 2001. Since arriving he has been working on numerous projects here and abroad.

He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including being short-listed for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize in 2003.In 2000 he received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship; in 1997 he was the Australian representative, IX Triennale of India, Delhi India and has been awarded four Australia Council project grants, the 1994 Australia Council residency, Greene St studio New York and in 1996 Art/Omi International Artists Colony, New York.

His work is included in the collections of the Jerwood Foundation, London, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and numerous other public, university, corporate and private collections in Australia and internationally.

Current projects include Mappa Mundi, a touring solo show organised by The University of Hertfordshire Galleries, UK; Flumen, a major public commission , Ashford, Kent, UK and Proximities, a large scale collaborative public commission in Melbourne, Australia. For further information on his work, please go to www.simeon-nelson.com

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