News
April 2008
Cryptosphere, Mapping Paradise a major installation at the RGS Exhibition Pavilion on Exhibition Road, London has been launched accompanied by a 64 page catalogue. This is the culmination of a 15 month Artist Residency at Royal Geographical Society, London
January 2008
A profile on my current work has been published on the Phillips Art Expert Website by London based writer Rebecca Geldard titled “Into the Cryptosphere with Simeon Nelson. Please go to http://www.phillipsartexpert.com/forums/11/215 to view
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November 2007
•Desiring Machine, a monumental sculpture for the Eastlink Motoway, Melbourne was launched at Federation Square, Melbourne on the 27th. It will be completed in 2008 and be part of the 5.5 million dollar Eastlink collection of new sculpture by leading Australian artists.
Media Kit - Press Release - Road Map
•Efflorescence, a sculptural intervention into a new residential tower in Brisbane, Australia has been installed.
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September 2007
Simeon Nelson has been short-listed to create a major new public art work on the fly tower of The Sunderland Empire Theatre, Sunderland, England.For further infomation go to The BBC and The Sunderlannd Echo
•Cactal, an architecturally scaled sculpture for the Institute of Digital Innovation, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK was installed on the facade of the new building. For further information and press coverage so far please go to the following links
http://www.tees.ac.uk http://www.hero.ac.uk gazettelive.co.uk
•iota, a group show including the work of Simeon Nelson will be at Cell Project Space, London, Opening on Friday 14 September curated by Richard Priestly
•20 September - Diaspora/Coalescence, an intervention into Foster and Partners Bishops Square building will open as part of the Spitalfields Public Art Programme Phase Two, London
•20 September - Opening of Oceanic Endless, Cardinia Aquatic Centre, Melbourne. Forpress coverage so far please go here.
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May 2007
Simeon Nelson and Vong Phaophanit/Claire Oboussier have been appointed by Modus Operandi Art Consultants as artists for Thomas Tallis Specialist Arts College, London, a new school designed by John McAslan Architects. For further information please go to Modus Operandi
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Draco has been shortlisted for the Landmark Wales public art programme, a major lottery funded programme of commissions to mark the key entry/exit points into Wales. For information please go here
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March 2007
Sonia Leber, David Chesworth and Simeon Nelson have been awarded the latest public art commission for Cardinia Shire in Melbourne - Press Release
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Deep Inspiration
Into the Cryptosphere - Press Release
Artist Residency at Royal Geographical Society with I.B.G. London, UK has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Grant and an Arts Council England Grant. This residency will culminate in a major installation at the RGS Exhibition Space on Exhibition Road London in April 2008
December 2006
Cactal
Institute of Digital Innovation, University of Teeside, Middlesbrough, Commissions North
Flume Bank Street Commission, Ashford, Kent , UK
Baroque my World, Transition Gallery, London
Proximities, Local Histories, Global Entanglements, Commonwealth Games commission, Melbourne, Australia
Wallzip National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Prize, Canberra, Australia
Coagulation, Tactile Bosch and House, Cardiff
Mappa Mundi, solo touring exhibition organised by the University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield, UK
Ornamatrix H29, Brussels, Belgium
terroir/boudoir Elastic Residence, London
Tempered Ground The Museum of Garden History, London
Dendrite, 2003 Jerwood Sculpture Prize
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