Simeon Nelson
| Type | Artist Male |
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| Associated person(s) | |
| URLs | Artist's page Document CV Wikipedia |
| Awards | |||||
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| Award | 2015 | Large Arts Award | Wellcome Trust | U.K. | |
| Artist in residence | 2014 | Artist in Resident | First Floor Gallery | Harare, Zimbabwe | |
| Award | 2014 | International Artists Development Fund Award | British Council | U.K. | |
| Promotion | 2009 | Fellowship | Pollock-Krasner Foundation | New York, USA | |
| Artist in residence | 2007 - 2008 | Artist in Resident | Royal Geographical Society | London, U.K. |
| Exhibitions | |||||
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| Solo exhibition | 2015 | Interlocutor | Mossgreen Gallery | Melbourne, Australia | |
| Festival | 2015 | 18th Islamic Art Festival | Sharjah Art Museum | Sharjah, Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman | |
| Solo exhibition | 2008 | Cryptosphere | Royal Geographical Society | London, UK | |
| Festival | 2007 | Deep Inspiration | Jerwood Space | London, U.K. | |
| Solo exhibition | 2005 | Terroir/Boudoir | Elastic Residence | London, UK | |
| Group exhibition | 2005 | National Sculpture Prize Exhibition | National Gallery of Australia | Canberra, Australia | |
| Group exhibition | 2003 | This was the Future: Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and Today | Heide Museum of Modern Art | Melbourne, Australia | |
| Group exhibition | 1996 | Australian Contemporary Art Fair | Christine Abrahams Gallery | Melbourne, Australia | |
| Solo exhibition | 1993 - 1994 | Landscope (The Machine in the Garden) | NSW and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art | Australia | |
| Group exhibition | Lumiere | Durham, U.K. |
| Artworks in Collections | |||
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| National Gallery of Australia | Canberra, Australia | ||
| Museum of Contemporary Art | Sydney, Australia | ||
| Art/Omi Foundation | New York, USA | ||
| Jerwood Foundation | London, U.K. | ||
| Goldman Sachs | Sydney, Australia |
| Publications | ||||||||||||
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| Monograph | 2013 | Black Dog Publishers | Anarchy in the Organism, Cancer as a Complex System | Simeon Nelson | 978 1 908966 28 5 | London | ||||||
| Monograph | Parabola | Cryptosphere | Simeon Nelson | 987-0-9558721-0-5 | London | |||||||
| Monograph | 2005 | University of Hertfordshire | Mappa Mundi | Bonvicini, Gyonata | 898543 93 3 | University of Hertfordshire, Galleries Hatfield | ||||||
| Monograph | 2000 | UNSW Press | Passages | Genocchio, Benjamin | 0 86840 730 5 | Sydney |
| Research & teaching | professorship | 2008 | Sculpture | School of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire | Hatfield, U.K. | professorship | 2009 - 2017 | Head of Visual Arts | School of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire | Hatfield, U.K. |
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Research and teaching
Hatfield, U.K.
School of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire
Places of residence
London, U.K.
Education
Sydney, Asutralia
Bachelor of Fine Art, Sydney College of the Arts
Education
Sydney, Australia
Art Certificate, National Art School
Places of residence
, Australia
Born
, United Kingdom
Education
Hatfield, U.K.
CPAD (Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education) University of Hertfordshire
"My inter-disciplinary sculpture, installation, time based work and writing is an exploration of hidden dimensions, connections and patterns guided by my daimon. The forms and processes I make try to stay within the play of Eros and Psyche and balance unruly Dionysius with rational Apollo. I am interested in the interplay of the masculine and feminine principles and how the recognition and reconciliation of these primordial forces can illuminate systemic connections between art and science. My work is conceptually underpinned by developments in quantum, chaos and complex systems theory that continue to revolutionize the human and physical sciences. In contrast to an out-dated, mechanistic worldview these developments envision an organic, interrelational and ceaselessly creative cosmos, imbued with value and agency, calling for our ethical engagement. Binary categories such as mind and matter, subject and object are reframed as vantage points within unified experience. Ideas informing this approach, for example: autopoiesis (Varela), holarchy, (Koestler) second-order cybernetics (Bateson), radical empiricism (James), elan vital (Bergson) and philosophy of organism (Whitehead) share an apprehension of humanity and nature as a divisible whole. The works are organised around geometric and iterative systems in which the parts are nodes in a network. For example Desiring Machine 2008 http://simeon-nelson.com/index.php/ desiring-machine/ and Cosmoscope 2017-19 http://simeon-nelson.com/index.php/cosmoscope-2/ display nested hierarchies of scale and dimension, lines, planes, volumes and time-based light and sound elements speak to each other - parts only make sense in relationship to each other and their constitutive whole. This gestalt has the characteristics of a complex adaptive system in the way the parts interact and different patterns emerge depending on the viewers position. I collaborate with musicians, programmers and scientists. I work with leading arts organisations like Artichoke and funders including the Wellcome Trust, The Arts Council and international agencies. I disseminate my work through exhibitions, public artworks, light festivals, performances, publications and lectures. My work migrates between public installation, concert-hall and gallery/museums."
Artist statement
http://simeon-nelson.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/SimeonNelsoncv.pdf (21.11.2019)
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Cosmoscope | 2018 | Simeon Nelson | |
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Plenum | 2014 | Simeon Nelson | |