Gemma Nelson

Future and current exhibitions/Projects :

May 2009: Saatchi Gallery, Kings Road, London

•Date to be confirmed 2009: Gemma Nelson: Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, Mayfair, London

•March 2009: Solo Show- Art I Form, Galeria E Consultoria De Arte, Portugal

•March 2009: SLICK DESSIN Paris, Cynthia Corbett Gallery

March 2009: London AAF, Cynthia Corbett Gallery

March 2009:Richard Gower Private Collection

March 2009: Martina Bohn Private Collection

Feb 2009: Cover of a-n magazine

Jan 13-18th 2009: The London Art Fair, Stand 2, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, Islington

• 17th of December - 31st January 2009
Christmas Show, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, Mayfair, London

• 6 December - 1 February 09, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008- Club Row, London

September 19th 2008- November 2008:
Bloomberg New Contemporaries: Liverpool Biennial of contemporary art

• Nov-Dec 2008 'Winter Salon' Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland

• Jan 09- Robert Cole Private Collection

• Sept-December 08: John Jones Collection

• June 2008- Commission for Véronique Rolland Private Collection

• April 2008: Commission for Jacobs Capital Private Collection, Bond Street, London

• 13th-16th March 2008, Affordable Art Fair, Spring Collection, Battersea Park, London

• 12th January- 8th March 2008, ‘Gemma Nelson and Matt Franks’, Laure Genillard Gallery, London

• November 2007- Commission for Charlie Bosworth Private Collection

• 18th October-18th November 2007- ‘Rising Stars’ Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon, United Kingdom

• 7th- 14th October 2007- ‘4 New Sensations’ art prize with Channel 4 and Saatchi Gallery. Old Truman Brewery, 15 Hanbury Street, London E1 6QL

• July-October 2007 Group Exhibition at Gissings, Finsbury House, 23 Finsbury Circus, London

• July 2007- Commission from James Hockey and Foyer Gallery, Surrey for Art>Enterprise

• May 2007- The Slade School of Fine Art degree show, University College London, Gower Street, London

• April 2007- Finalist in the Nationwide Mercury Art Prize, Hospital Gallery and Private Members Club, Endell Street, Covent Garden, London

• December 2006/7- Interim show, Slade School of Fine Art, Woburn Studios, Bloomsbury, London

• June 2004 – Group show at Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
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Future and current exhibitions/Projects :

May 2009: Saatchi Gallery, Kings Road, London

•Date to be confirmed 2009: Gemma Nelson: Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, Mayfair, London

•March 2009: Solo Show- Art I Form, Galeria E Consultoria De Arte, Portugal

•March 2009: SLICK DESSIN Paris, Cynthia Corbett Gallery

March 2009: London AAF, Cynthia Corbett Gallery

March 2009:Richard Gower Private Collection

March 2009: Martina Bohn Private Collection

Feb 2009: Cover of a-n magazine

Jan 13-18th... (read more)

PRESS RELEASE

Gemma Nelson is a young emerging British artist, based in London. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2007. She was a selected by Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 to exhibit in 4 New Sensations, and has been selected to show work in the prestigious Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008 exhibition.

Highly obsessive and organic in construction; Gemma Nelson’s paintings weave like cells, creating delicate chaotic tapestries in response to various themes such as female sexuality, fairytales and notions of webbing and nets. In other works patterning and totemic tattoos are very strong influences. Using Indian inks and mixed media on canvas, her paintings are high pitched in colour, creating illusionary spaces, surfaces and worlds that are both resonant and abstract.

We can see Gemma Nelson’s paintings as objects of condensed time, whilst also suggesting disruption, mutation and beauty. Each of the obsessively crafted cells in her work represent a slot of a few minutes in the production of the painting, although when viewed in their entirety the cells in the works merge and are reminiscent of the psychedelic patterns of the sixties. We can only make sense of time as being a linear journey, although in reality time bends, warps and shifts.


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Slick Dessin Paris; Cynthia Corbett Gallery: April 2009

Pornographic Imagination' is based on an essay of the same title written by Susan Sontag, am esteemed philosopher and critic who greatly interested Nelson. Sontag argued that pornography was a literary subject and an art form in it's own right. The essay also talks about how artistic forms such as aesthetics and types of spirituality and relate to modern society. Nelson recognised the way in which 'glamour' and 'sexuality' related to her painting, the history of image making and feminism. Nelson also read Mary Daly's text 'Gyn/ecology'and how the word 'Glamour' came about.

She learnt how the word Glamour originated, that is from a spell 'witches' (aka educated women) used to possess, which castrated men or made them into eunuchs. Nelson was thus interested in making glamorous and laboriouswork in relation to feminism, that was almost like obsessive patchwork quilts (or piece-work that woman were told to do to pacify their time) but also like possessed or deranged patterning. The work is seductive and seemingly glamorous, yet is rather lurid, and cell like. Nelson describes how her subject matter grows like a spore and in a web like formation and compares her paintings to a Black Widow Spider (they entice, spin and consume their lovers). Needless to say phallus' and orgasmic explosions are quite literally all over her work!

Furthermore, Nelson is also very intrigued by fairy tales and mythology and incorporates this into her work, sometimes quite abstractly. She enjoys the sinister element in fairy tales and oxymoronic way that they convey both childlike innocence and sexualisation. Nelson identifies hidden characters in the patterning, implanting her views onto this world; they suggest Freudian totems and are almost like little fetishes. Irrealities and metaphysical possibilities really excite Nelson a she seeks these dimensions in her art (read less)

PRESS RELEASE

Gemma Nelson is a young emerging British artist, based in London. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2007. She was a selected by Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 to exhibit in 4 New Sensations, and has been selected to show work in the prestigious Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008 exhibition.

Highly obsessive and organic in construction; Gemma Nelson’s paintings weave like cells, creating delicate chaotic tapestries in response to various themes such as female... (read more)