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Nelson was born in England in 1964 and came to Australia in 1967.
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Simeon Nelson
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Since 2001 he has lived and worked in London. He is Reader in Sculpture at The University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom and a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. His work looks at relationships between nature and technology.
How nature is mediated by technology and science on one hand and art on the other.
Nelson has deployed a range of materials, techniques and ideas in his oeuvre. Much of his work looks at the forms, systems and structures of nature, as described and represented by science.
The branching of a tree, the root directory of a website or the infinitely intricate tracery of the lungs or vascular system of the human body form a set of important metaphors in his work. They are seen as structurally and conceptually analogous.
These works ask questions such as: how organic (natural) form is appropriated by art, science and design.
How their visual codes and models of how the world works become fixed in public consciousness. This concern with the connection between the natural and the artificial manifested in a series of ecological installations in the 1990s including Landscope (The Machine in the Garden). Representations of nature and nature itself were combined in large scale works that suggest that nature creates art as much as art creates nature.
