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art, sculpture, science, religion, installation, contemporary, digital, nature, representation, commissions, contemporary, interdisciplinary, ecology, stylistic chang | |||||||
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Art Certificate, National Art School, Sydney, Australia Bachelor of Fine Art, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia Sculpture (post-technician) Certificate, National Art School, Sydney, Australia based in London Reader in Sculpture, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK Solo Exhibitions Cryptosphere, Royal Geographical Society Exhibition Space, London Ornamatrix, H29 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Terroir/Boudoir, Elastic Residence, London, UK Mappa Mundi, University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield; Tactile Bosch Artist Led Space, Cardiff, United Kingdom Stilfragen, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney Material World, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney Natural Construct, Christine Abrahams Gallery , Melbourne Arrivals, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney Medium Density, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney Average Density, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne World Between, 9th Triennale - India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; touring to Tamworth City Gallery,Gold Coast City Gallery, Mildura City Gallery and The Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth Formal Decay, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Caravan Romance, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia Seascape, Level 2 Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney The Miracle of the Rose, Australia Council Studio, New York, United States of America Landscope (The Machine in the Garden), Artspace, Sydney; Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia Transgressions, Rom Gallery, Sydney, Australia World Fare (with Stephen Crane), EMR Galleries, Sydney, Australia Crash (with Stephen Crane), EMR Galleries, Sydney, Australia Group Exhibitions iota, Cell Project Space, London, curated by Richard Priestly Incorporate, Arts & Business, London, curated by Exhibit K Deep Inspiration, Jerwood Space, London, curated by Emma Russell and Rachel Dickson Diaspora/Coalescence, Bishops Square, Spitalfields, London, curated by Emma Russell and Rachel Dickson Between the Sheets, Juno Records, Camden, London, curated by Kim Fielding, supported by Juno Records and Tactile Bosch, Cardiff Baroque My World, Transition Gallery, London The Gathering, Wangaratta Gallery, Wangaratta, Australia Art Omi, a Retrospective, Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Sydney, Australia Coagulation, Tactile Bosch and House, Cardiff, part of Cardiff Contemporary Mirage of Minds, Century Gallery, ACAVA Studios, London, United Kingdom National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Inaugural Exhibition, The Hospital, London, United Kingdom, curated by Emma Elia-Shaul Zoo Art Fair, Flaca Gallery Stand, London United Kingdom Melbourne Art Fair, Christine Abrahams Gallery Stand, Melbourne Australia Tempered Ground, Museum of Garden History, London, United Kingdom This was the future.. Australian sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and Today, Hiede Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia New York Calling, PS1 Contemporay Art Center Australian Studio, New York Jerwood Sculpture Prize, Jerwood Space, London, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom London Biennale 2002, 291 Gallery, Hackney, London, United Kingdom Nelson + Valamanesh, Sherman Galleries Hargrave,19 February - 16 March Five, Australian Embassy, The Strand, London, United Kingdom Helen Lempriere National Scupture Award Exhibition, Werribee Park, Victoria, Australia Pixel, Elastic Project Space, Sydney, Australia The Numbers Game The Adam Art Gallery, New Zealand The Organic and the Artificial: Re-inventing Modernist Design, University of Tasmania Gallery, Australia Ways of Being, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Pile on, The Bridge, Construction in Process VI, Melbourne, Australia IX Indian Art -Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India Gold CostBetween Art & Nature, Australian Perspecta, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney Moët et Chandon touring exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Works on paper by 20 Australian Artists Za Moca Foundation, , Tokyo, Japan Systems End, Contemporary Art In Australia OXY Gallery, Osaka; Hakone Museum, Tokyo; Dong-Ah Gallery, Seoul; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan Distance, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum, Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto, Japan Pachi Pachi 1000, XEBEC Centre for Experimental Music and Performance, Kobe, Japan The Blake Prize, Mitchell Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, regional gallery tour Moët et Chandon touring exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney In the Company of Others, curated by Jacques Delaruelle, King on Burton Gallery, Sydney Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Andy Wardrobe, EMR Galleries, Sydney, Australia Public Commissions Floating World, Birmingham New Hospital Commission, art consultants: InSite Arts & Emma Larkinson Desiring Machine Sculpture Commission, Eastlink Motorway, Melbourne, Australia Stratum Thomas Tallis Specialist College, London, John McAslan Architects, art consultants art consultants - Modus Operandi, London Flumen, Bank Street Commission, Ashford, Kent , UK, RKL Art Consultants, funded by The European Union, The Arts Council England and Kent County Council Docklands Light Railway Stratford International Extension commission, art consultants Modus Operandi (shortlisted) Oceanic/Endless, Cardinia Life Aquatic Centre, Melbourne, Australia, in collaboration with David Chesworth and Sonia Leber Sunderland Empire Theatre Flytower commission, Sunderland, UK, curated by Richard Hollinshead (shortlisted) Draco, shortlisted proposal for Chirk, Wales, Landmark Wales lottery funded public art programme, art consultant, Geoff Wood, Working pArts Cactal, Institute of Digital Innovation, University of Teeside, Middlesbrough, funded by ONE North East, University of Teesside and Middlesbrough Council; supported by Commissions North Chain Reactor,Temple Quay 9 Building, Bristol, In association with Stride Treglown Architects, art consultant: Working pArts (paused) Proximities - Local Histories/Global Entanglements, Commonwealth Games commission, Melbourne, Australia Wahlverwandschaft, Deakin University Commission, Melbourne, Australia Corpuscle, invited proposal for the Westminster Hospital commission, London UK, art consultants: Modus Operandi Mnemonic, invited proposal for the Felton Centenary Commission, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia The Ecstacy of St Theresa, invited proposal for the Roundhouse commision, London, UK, art consultants: Modus Operandi Arborescence, invited proposal for 199 Knightsbridge, London, UK, art consultants: Modus Operandi Progettomoderno Commission, Pianca Furniture Company, Treviso, Italy, art consultants: Modus Operandi Midway, Design of sculptural treatment for Luna Park, in association with Hassell Architects, Sydney, Australia The Hope Machine and Thursdays Fictions, set design for Tasdance Dance Company, Launceston, Tasmania M4 freeway commission, in association with Hassell Architects, Sydney, Australia Landscope (the Machine in the Garden) permanent siting at the University of Western, Sydney, Australia Ben Chifley and Crucimatrilux, Chifley Square sculpture commission, in association with Hassell architects, Sydney, Australia Awards and Residencies Artist in Residence at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London supported by the Arts Council England and The Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence, The Institute of Digital Innovation, University of Teesside, funded by ONE North East, Middlesbrough Council; supported by Commissions North Arts Council England Individual Grant The Leverhulme Trust, London, Artist in Residence Grant, Finalist, National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Arts Council England, Individual Grant Research Leave Scheme, University of Hertfordshire HEFCE Finalist, Jerwood Sculpture Prize, Jerwood Foundation, London Australia Council new work grant Finalist, Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Australia Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, New York Conferences and workshops grant, Australian Network for Art and Technology Australian Representative IX Triennale India, New Delhi Project grant, Australia Council for the Arts Art/Omi International Artists' Workshop, New York Australia Council Studio Fellowship, Greene Street Studio, New York Project grant, Australia Council Project grant, Australia Council Academic Posts and Papers Reader in Sculpture, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, U.K. Senior Lecturer in Spatial Design and Sculpture, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, U.K. paper, Marketing the Unmarketable, Marketing and the Arts Conference UH Business School, Hertford, U.K. Visiting Lecturer, Department of Visual Communication, University of Technology, Sydney paper, 'Neuronature', International Symposium on Electronic Art, Paris paper, 'The Bridge Between Art and Design, ACUADS conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney Artist-in-Residence Sydney Grammar School, Sydney Part-time Lecturer KVB Institute of Technology department of Art and Design, Sydney Demonstrator, Sculpture Department, University of Newcastle Guest Lectures at art schools and institutions in England, Australia, India and Japan Public and Corporate Collections National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Jerwood Foundation, London, UK Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK Artbank, Sydney; Australia Deakin University Art Collection, Melbourne, Australia Campbelltown City Art Gallery; Australia GoldCoast City Art Gallery; Australia McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria, Australia Sydney Open Museum, Sydney University of Western Sydney Art/Omi Foundation, New York Goldman Sachs, Sydney Grant Samuel and Associates, Sydney, Australia Macquarie Bank, Sydney, Australia NRMA Collection, Sydney, Australia Tabcorp, Melbourne Westpac Bank, Australia University of New South Wales Press, Sydney Additional Information Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts; member of the Art and Architecture Association, London; member of ACAVA, London; board member of Elastic Residence artist run space, London; member of CREAC Research Unit, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield UK; Artquest advisor; axis artist database; represented by Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne |
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Barber, Ashley ‘Getting to the art of the matter in 2008’, The Age, Melbourne, 2 January 'Art installation for city theatre', BBC News, UK, 18 November ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/7100621.stm Brown, Neal, “Ironic, I should Rococo” The First Post, April 26, UK Clement, Tracey, “Language, Craft and Politics in the National Sculpture Prize” Craft Culture Victoria Online Journal, September Issue Dalton, Gordon, Coagulation, Review of the Week, Gallery Guide, The Western Mail, Wales, 21 October Desmond, Michael, “Molecule as Muse DNA in Art”, Cosmos Magazine, No. 6, December Drummond, Rozalind, “Art Happiness”, Artlook #15, Cultural Council of the Australian Capital Territory, CanberraSeptember Nelson, Simeon, National Sculpture Prize catalogue, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia ISBN 0 642 54132 9 Preece, Robert, ‘Focus’, Simeon Nelson, Sculpture Magazine, New Jersey, USA, Vol.24 No.3 ISSN 0889-7 Shaul, Matthew, Introduction, Mappa Mundi Catalogue, University of Hertfordshire Galleries Hatfield, ISBN 1 898543 93 3 Sullivan, Eve, National Sculpture Prize, Artonview issue 43 National Gallery of Australia pp13-15, ISSN 1323-4552 Taylor, Elena, Introduction to National Sculpture Prize catalogue, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia ISBN 0 642 54132 9 Neal, Jane Tempered Ground, Contemporary Magazine, issue 66 Sept-Oct Nelson, Simeon Stilfragen artist statement, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia Williams, Eliza A View on Tempered Ground* Parabola Trust ISBN: 0-9547617-1-5 0 Murray, Peter Simeon Nelson, Jerwood Prize, Jerwood Foundation, London* Stanhope, Zara All the Things You Are, This was the Future. Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia* * ISBN 0947104755 Campbell, Farouk Jerwood Prize, London SE1, February Byrne, Lisa Simeon Nelson, Material World, Eyeline issue 48 p47 Hynes, Victoria Webmaster, Sydney Morning Herald, 01 March Genocchio & Geczy What is Installation?, Power Publications, University of Sydney ISBN 1864874309 Kidd, Courtney Simeon Nelson, Australian Art Collector, issue 19 p49 Loxley, Anne A Look Through the Layers of Arresting Works, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 Feb Nelson, Simeon, 'Welcome to my Nightmare' Material World, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, February* Bilske, Maria Lempriere prize, Sculpture Magazine, New Jersey, Vol.20 No.7, ISSN 0889-7 Brennan, Betsy Living Art Vogue Living , p 55 Dec-Jan Burtt, Cliffe Lempriere Prize, Newsletter of the Contemporary Sculptors Association, May 2001 Genocchio, Benjamin Sculptors Earn a Walk in the Park The Australian March 23 p11 Hutak Michael Australia’s 50 Most Collectible Artists, p80, Australian Art Collector issue 15 Morris, Rachel Fast Track to Fame for Emerging Artist The Daily Telegraph p 13 Jan 15 Samuelian, Christine Full Nelson Wallpaper * Magazine pp143-144 issue 36 March Lempriere Prize, World Sculpture News Cullen, Max A Private Look at Public Art, video interviews with Australian artists, Sydney Genocchio, Benjamin Simeon Nelson Passages, monograph , UNSW Press, Sydney ISBN 0 86840 730 5 Jackson, D., Johnson C. Australian Architecture Now, Thames and Hudson, London ISBN 0500283885 Genocchio, Benjamin Simeon Nelson Selections from the University of Western Sydney Art Collection* Schumack, Kaye Landscope installed at the University of Western Sydney Postwest issue 17 Gawronski, Alex Simeon Nelson Passages, Globe e Journal of Contemporary Art, Reviews Nelson, Robert Accessory to the fact; ornament to their profession, The Age 6 Dec Melbourne Nelson, Simeon Neuronature, International Symposium on Electronic Art, p80, Art 3000, Paris* Stanhope, Zara ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, KNOCK AT MY DOOR The Numbers Game, Adam Gallery, University of Wellington, New Zealand* Young, Melinda, 'Simeon Nelson: Passages' review, Object magazine, Sydneyno.4 Harley, Ross Rudesch ‘Ambiguous Topologies’, Medium Density, Sherman Goodhope, Sydney* Hutak, Michael ‘Artbank, Try Before You Buy’, Australian Art Collector, issue 10 Noble, Andrew ‘Tactile Tech’ , profile, Outrage , October issue Smee, Sebastian ‘Progress Rapport’, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 August Spinks, Jennifer ‘The Organic and the Artificial’ University of Tasmania* Rhodes, Briony The Organic and the Artificial, Reinventing Modernist Design’ , Eyeline issue 40 Cantrill, P. J. ‘Square Spaces’, Architectural Review Australia # 63 Gennocchio, Ben ‘What Remains’ , Art and Australia vol 35 #4 Green, Charles review of IXth Indian Triennale, Art/Text 61 James, Bruce ‘Work in Progress’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 August Kidd, Courtney Public art In Sydney Artlink vol 18 #50 Nelson, Simeon artist statement p 36 Ways of Being* Sherman, Gene Marking the 2000 Moment Artlink vol 18 #50 Smith, Sue ‘Rebirth of a Mystical Vision’ Courier Mail Brisbane 6 May Zulaikha, Brian, ‘Chifley Square’, cover story Architecture Australia March/April 1998 Bennie, Angela Within the cesspool, a metaphor for life’s flux, SMH, p 13, 11 Aug Clabburn, Anna In Between and Beyond, Moet et Chandon * ISBN 0958859981 Clark and Jose Systems End, Contemporary Art in Australia, Kaohsiung Museum, Taiwan ISBN 9570083123 Chenery, Susan Perspecta Perspectives cover story, Sydney Morning Herald Metro Aug 8-14 Chopra, Suneet, 'Achy Breaky Art ', Life Style, 13 December Dalmia, Yashodhara ?Between Multiple Worlds? , Outlook Magazine Dec 22 , India Dutt, Nirupama, 'High Tide of Creativity ', The Express Magazine , 14 December Farrelly, E. M. Chifley Gets a Nip and Tuck , Sydney Morning Herald 28 Oct Fenner, Felicity World Between catalogue essay , IX Indian Triennale, Delhi French, Blair Simeon Nelson, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Art / Text 56, Gennochio, Benjamin review of Perspecta 1997 Australian Financial Review Gibson, Jeff review of Perspecta 1997 Between Art and Nature, Art / Text 59. Gibson, Mike Chifley Art’s in the Right Place The Daily Telegraph 29 Oct Iyer, Vasantha, 'Ninth Triennale: An experience in Tranquility ', National Herald, 11 December Henderson, Gerard Libs, Where’s Thy Ming? Sydney Morning Herald 1Nov Jain, Madhu, 'Passages from India ', India Today, 15 December Kalidas, S The Cesspool Sonata 9th Triennale India, The Pioneer 30 Nov McNicoll, D D ?Chifley’s Vision Draws Labour Greats The Australian 28 Oct Nelson, Simeon comment, Australian Perspecta 1997, Between art and Nature, pp10-12* ISSN 07271204 Sengupta, Ratnottama Nature, Culture and ‘the World in Between’ , interview, The Times of India, Dec 10 Smee, Sebastian ‘Hung, Drawn and Courted’ , SMH Metro, May 16 Stephens, Tony ?Labours Hero Takes his Place as Man of Steel, Sydney Morning Herald 28Oct Symons, Emma-Kate Chifley Returns to High Office as 8m Cartoon Cutout, The Daily Telegraph 28 Oct Titmarsh, Mark Teach Me Teach Me Australian Art Collector, issue 3 Ward, Peter ?Sydney’s 12-point Plan?, Review,Weekend Australian Dec. 13-14 Watson, Bronwyn Art in the Littoral Zone, 1997, Art Monthly, October 'IX Indian Art - Triennale 1997 goes Hi - tech', Delhi Times, 5 December Ashton, Chris, 'Australian Contemporary Art is Coming to Japan', QANTAS Spirit, March-April Clark, John Systems End,Contemporary Art in Australia Kaohsiung Museum ofArts, Taiwan Clarke, Neil Beginning at the End Hakone Museum, Japan The Daily Yomimuri, 7 June Guest, Micheal ?Thoughts on Distance?, A-Value meets Distance, A-Value, Shizuoka, Japan* Hayes, Paul ?Nelson’s Nature?, Capital Q , 8 November Hedger, Michael review of ?Distance?, Architecture Australia , vol 85, # 1, Jan-Feb James, Bruce ?Artists find new markets? Sydney Morning Herald 2 June Larkin,Annette Distance, Shizuoka, Kyoto, Japan * Loxley, Anne Catalogue essay for Sherman Galleries Solo exhibition November * McCulloch, Susan The Oriental Express Weekend Review, The Australian, 20 April McGuire, T G Down Under Asia Asahi Evening News, 27 June Merten, Margaret ?Arts Beat? (profile) HQ Magazine Nov, Dec Murphy, Bernice catalogue essays for the Crant Samuel Collection of Contemporary Art , Feb * O’Brien, Geraldine Article on Chifley Monument, Sydney Morning Herald 9 Feb Takami, Akihiko, 'Componding Australian Identity'(review of Systems End), Bijustu-Techo, TokyoAugust, Yoda, Miki, 'Strong aspect of multicultural society', The Sankei Shimbun Newspaper, 7 July 1996 Bond, Tony Simeon Nelson Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia Sherman Galleries * Delaruelle, Jacques ?Tautological Injunctions? The Sydney Review # 73 March Fenner, Felicity Icons and Idolisers, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July Johnson, Anna" 3 Australians in New York" , profile Imagine, S.B.S. T.V. 7 August. Johnson, Anna ?Submerged?, Seascape catalogue essay, Art Gallery of New South Wales Kishimoto, Yasushi ?Distance?, documentary video Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto, Kyoto Art Today, vol 18 Lynn, Elwyn The Moet and Chandon Prize The Australian, 10 Feb McGillick, Paul Champagne for the Mind Financial Review 17 Feb Timms, Peter “The Case for Mannerism”, Moet and Chandon Foundation* ISBN 0958859981 Williams, Tim Chifley Square, Sydney Spaces, publ. by Sydney City Council 1989 Ashton, Helen "Architecture of the Imagination", Churinga, vol 4, no 6. Australian Consulate, NYC Banks, Ron "Installation Gets a Slimy Reception" The West Australian, 21 July Merten, Margaret ?Simeon Nelson?, Australian Style Magazine, # 9 Miller, Nikki "Nature and Culture Brought Together" The West Australian, 7 July Nelson, Simeon Uroboros artists statement, 1995 Moet et Chandon catalogue Timms, Peter The Case for Mannerism 1995 Moet et Chandon, December * Weston, Neville "Of Boundary Riders and Outback Dunnies", The Western Review Delaruelle, Jacques "Accordance with Nature", Sydney Review, 54, Harley, Ross The Machine in the Garden: Simeon Nelson's Landscope, Artspace, Sydney * Lynn, Elwyn "Galleries Sydney" Weekend Australian, 22 May Merten, Margaret "Landscapes of the Under-Soul", Artspace, Sydney* Nelson, Simeon The Prison of Vision artists statement for Landscope , Artspace, Dunn, Jackie, ‘Objects of installation’, Craft New South Wales, spring Johnson, Anna, ‘Mortal coil’, Perspecta 91, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syndey Sproull, Richard, ‘Marine Theme Behind Wave of Contemporary Art’, Australian, 12 June Bell, Allison, ‘Objets Trouvé’, Interior Architecture, no. 32 Chater, Jenny & Anne Howell, ‘Objects of obsession’, Follow-Me magazine, DecemberJanuary Lumby, Catherine, ‘Andy Wardrobe’, Art & Text, no. 37, August McCarthy, Paul, ‘Pandora's Wardrobe’, Tension, no. 22, August Allen, Christopher, ‘Famous victory gets a humorous reworking’, Sydney Morning Herald, July Gibson, Emily, ‘Closet artists, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 June Lumby, Catherine, ‘Mismatched artists create an Impressive and gigantic show’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 July Lynn, Elwyn, ‘Dark deadly serious fun, Weekend Australian, 9 July McMillan, Richard, ‘Working in the warehouse’, City Life, 7 January * denotes catalogue 3 |
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