SIMEON NELSON
Nationality: British/Australian
EDUCATION
1983-84 Art Certificate, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
1985-87 Bachelor of Fine Art, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
2006- Reader in Sculpture, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Eschaton,The Economist Plaza, London, commissioned and curated by the Contemporary Art Society, London
New Work, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Mossgreen Gallery Stand, Melbourne Art Fair, Australia
2008 Cryptosphere, Royal Geographical Society, London
2005 Ornamatrix, H29 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Mappa Mundi, University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield; Tactile Bosch Artist Led Space, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Terroir/Boudoir, Elastic Residence, London, United Kingdom
2002 Material World, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2000 Natural Construct, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Neuronature, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney, Australia
1999 Medium Density, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia
1998 Average Density, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1997–99 World Between, IX Triennale–India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New
South Wales, Sydney; Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast; University of Queensland Gallery, Brisbane; Tamworth
City Gallery, Tamworth; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia, curator Felicity Fenner
Landscope (The Machine in the Garden), permanent siting at the University of Western Sydney
1996 Formal Decay, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Caravan Romance, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia
1995 Seascape, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1994 The Miracle of the Rose, Australia Council Studio, New York, United States of America
1993–94 Landscope (The Machine in the Garden), Artspace, Sydney; Tamworth Gallery, NSW and Perth Institute of Contemporary
Art, Western Australia
COMMISSIONS
2008-9-King Abdullah University of Science andTechnology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, commissioner: Urban Art Projects
2007-8 - shortlisted proposal Docklands Light Railway Stratford International Extension, art consultants Modus Operandi,
London
-Sunderland Empire Theatre Flytower commission, Sunderland UK, (shortlisted)
-Stratum Thomas Tallis Specialist College, London, John McAslan Architects, art consultants - Modus Operandi, London
2006-10 -Floating World, The Birmingham New Hospital, UK, art consultants: InSite Arts & Emma Larkinson –
-Chain Reactor,Temple Quay 2, Bristol, UK, art consultants Working pArts
2006-8 -Desiring Machine Sculpture Commission, Eastlink Motorway, Melbourne, Australia
2007 -Draco, shortlisted proposal for Chirk, Wales, Landmark Wales
-Oceanic/Endless, Cardinia Life Aquatic Centre, Melbourne, Australia, in collaboration with David Chesworth and Sonia
Leber
2006-7 -Cactal, The Institute of Digital Innovation Commission, University of Teeside, Middlesbrough, UK, Commissions North
-Efflorescence, The M on Mary residential tower, Brisbane, Australia, art consultants Brecknock Consulting
2005-8 -Flume, , Bank Street Commission, in association with Whitelaw Turkington Landscape Architects, English Partnerships,
CABE, RKL Art Consultants, Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom
2004–6 -Proximities-Local Histories/Global Entanglements, in collaboration with David Chesworth and Sonia Leber,, XVIII
Commonwealth Games public art commission, Melbourne, Australia
-Wahverwandschaft, Deakin University Commission, Melbourne, Australia
2002 -Progettomoderno commission, Treviso, Italy, art consulatants, Modus Operandi, London
1997 -M4 Freeway commission, Sydney, Australia, in association with Hassell Architects
1998 -The Hope Machine and Thursdays Fictions, sets for Tasdance Dance Company productions, Tasmania, Australia
1995–97 -Ben Chifley and Crucimatrilux, Chifley Square sculpture commission, in association with Hassell architects, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Ornamental Systems, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
Skyway Art and Astronomy Festival Torun, Poland, curated by Mario Caeiro
Objet Perdu, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal, curated by Mario Caerio
2009 Here/Now, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Auxesis,Tactile Bosch, Cardiff, UK
2007 iota, Cell Projects, London, curated by Richard Priestly
Incorporate, Arts and Business, London, curated by Exhibit K
Deep Inspiration, Jerwood Space, London, curated by Rachel Dickson and Emma Russell
Diaspora/Coalescence, Bishops Square, Spitalfields, London, Spitalfields Development Group, curated by Rachel Dickson
and Emma Russell
2006 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, United Kingdom
The Gathering, Wangaratta Gallery, Wangaratta, Australia
2005 Art Omi, a Retrospective, Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
Coagulation, TactileBOSCH and House, Cardiff, part of Cardiff Contemporary, Wales
Mirage of Minds, Century Gallery, ACAVA Studios, London, United Kingdom
National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2004 Inaugural Exhibition, curator Emma Elia-Shaul, The Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Zoo Art Fair, Flaca Gallery Stand, London, United Kingdom
Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Christine Abrahams Gallery Stand, Melbourne, Australia
Tempered Ground, curators Danielle Arnaud, Jordan Kaplan, Museum of Garden History, London, United Kingdom
Acava Open Studio Exhibition, London, United Kingdom
2003 This was the Future: Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and Today, curator Zara Stanhope, Heide Museum of
Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
New York Calling, Australian Studio PS1, New York
Jerwood Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Jerwood Space, London, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Acava Open Studio Exhibition, London, United Kingdom
Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2002 London Biennale 2002, 291 Gallery, Hackney, London, United Kingdom
2001 Helen Lempriere National Scupture Award Exhibition, Werribee Park, Victoria, Australia
Nelson + Valamanesh, Sherman Galleries Hargrave,19 February - 16 March
Five, curator Australian High Commission, London, United Kingdom
2000 Pixel, Elastic Contemporary Project Space, Sydney, Australia
Australian Contemporary Art Fair 7, Melbourne, Australia
The Numbers Game, curator Zara Stanhope, The Adam Art Gallery, New Zealand
1999 The Organic and the Artificial: Re-inventing Modernist Design, curator Jennifer Spinks, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1998 Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
Ways of Being, curator Jennifer, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Mecenat Collection, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Pile on, The Bridge, Construction in Process VI, Melbourne, Australia
Living city, Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Tusculum, Sydney
1996–98 Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, regional gallery tour
1997 IX Triennale–India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
Australian Perspecta 97: Between Art & Nature, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia
Moët et Chandon touring exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Works on paper by 20 Australian artists, ZA MOCA FOUNDATION, Tokyo, Japan
Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, exhibition catalogue, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
1996–97 Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia, curators Takeshi Kanazawa and William Wright, OXY Gallery, Osaka; Hakone
Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Dong-Ah Gallery, Seoul, South Korea; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
1996 Australian Contemporary Art Fair 5, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Gallery Artists: New Work, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia
1995 Distance, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum, Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto, Japan
Pachi Pachi 1000, XEBEC Centre for Experimental Music and Performance, Kobe, Japan
AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2009 Highly commended, Rouse Hill Public Art Award, Kent, UK
2007 Artist In Residence, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK
2006 Artist Residency Grant, The Leverhulme Trust, London, UK
Individual Grant, Arts Council England, UK
2005 Finalist, National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2004 Arts Council England individual grant, UK
2003 Finalist, Jerwood Sculpture Prize, London, UK
New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
Paul Hamlyn Foundation, nominated for Artists’ Bursary UK
Nominated for Becks Futures, ICA, London UK
2001 Finalist, Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Australia
2000 Pollock-Krasner Foundation fellowship, New York
Conferences and Workshops Grant, Australian Network for Art and Technology
1998 New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
1997 Australian Representative, IX Triennale–India, New Delhi
Project Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
1996 Art/Omi International Artists' Workshop, New York
1994 Australia Council Studio Fellowship, Greene Street Studio, New York
Artist in residence, Sydney Grammar School, Sydney
1989 Project Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
APPOINTMENTS AND CONSULTANCY
2008 Judge, Vice Chancellors Grants in the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, University of Hertfordshire
Judge, Inaugural Sculpture Prize, School of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire
Advisor to MADE West Midlands Architecture Centre, Birmingham, UK
2007 Consultant to Modus Operandi Art Consultants, Stratford International Docklands Light Rail Extension Art
Programme, London, UK
2006 Independent peer assessor Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Proposal to the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Modern, London, UK for Ornamental Systems, exhibition
Consultant Power Court Housing Development Art Strategy, Luton, UK, Future City Art Consultants
Member Ashford Ring Road Advisory Group, Ashford Borough Council
2005-07 Advisor Artquest Artists advisory and advocacy body, University of the Arts, London,
Co-director Elastic Residence Artist Run Space, London
2005 Co-authorship of new CREAC Research Unit website, School of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire
2000 Judge, Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney exhibition and sculpture prize, Sydney, Australia
1998 Consulant to South Sydney City Council on Green Square Public Art Programme, Sydney, Australia
1997 Initiator of Australian Perspecta Between Art and Nature, multi venue survey exhibition, Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney, Australia
Consultant to Hassell architects on Olympic Art Programme, Homebush, Sydney, Australia
LECTURES, PANELS, PAPERS
Artquest, University of the Arts, London, UK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia
Hakone Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Jerwood Foundation, London, UK
Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, UK
Institute of Digital Innovation, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK
Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi, India
National Gallery of Australia. Canberra
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia
Queensland University School of Art, Australia
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2007 paper: Mapping the Mythical, inIVA Creative Mapping symposium, Royal Geographical Society, London
2005 Panel member National Sculpture Prize symposium, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2003 Panel member Jerwood Sculpture Prize symposium, Jerwood Space, London UK
2002 paper: Marketing the Unmarketable Marketing the Arts Conference, UH Business School, Hertford, UK
2000 paper: Neuronature International Symposium on Electronic Art, Paris, France
1999 paper: The Bridge between Art and Design, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1995 paper: Distance Symposium, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum, Japan
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Art/Omi Foundation, NewYork, USA
Jerwood Foundation, London, UK
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK
Royal Geographical Society, London, UK
The University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK
Artbank, Sydney
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney
Deakin University Art Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Goldman Sachs, Sydney
McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park,Victoria, Australia
Grant Samuel and Associates, Sydney
Macquarie Bank, Australia
NRMA Collection, Sydney, Australia
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Sydney Open Museum, Sydney