expeditions Catherine Nelson
7th to 30th August 2014
Expeditions, 2014 Catherine Nelson creates immersive landscapes, rich with detail and an in-tune understanding of 'place'. Expedition presents a meticulous reconstruction of a highly specific site, well-known to the artist, in various permutations of time, seasonal changes and weather. Catherine painstakingly merges hundreds of images to create these fully realised tropical and coastal landscapes. By inserting small figures into the landscape, the artist creates a human scale, highlighting sublime effect of being fully immersed in nature. Expedition, as a body of work, crystallises the ability of landscape (and the memory of landscape) to affect our human experience. Catherine Nelson was born in Sydney. After leaving school she completed her art education at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney and then moved quickly into the world of film and television, creating visual effects for films such as Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, 300, and Australia. Her profession has taken her around the world having lived and worked in Milan, London, Rome, Reykjavik, Bratislava, Brussels and throughout Australia. In 2008 she returned to her studio and began to dedicate her time to her own art practice.
When I embraced the medium of photography, I felt that taking a picture that represented only what was within the frame of the lens wasn't expressing my personal and inner experience of the world around me. With the eye and training of a painter and with years of experience behind me in film visual effects, I began to take my photographs to another level.
Approaching Storm, 2013 pigment print on digital photograph 150cm x 150cm - edition of 5 100cm x 100cm - edition of 5
Lost, 2013 pigment print on digital photograph 150cm x 150cm - edition of 5 100cm x 100cm - edition of 5
Waterhole, 2013 pigment print on digital photograph 150 x 180 cm - edition of 3 125 x 150 cm - edition of 3 100 x 120 cm - edition of 4
Gully, 2013 pigment print on digital photograph 150 x 187.5 cm - edition of 3 120 x 150 cm - edition of 3 100 x 125 cm - edition of 4
Pond, 2013 pigment print on digital photograph 150 x 292.5 cm - edition of 3 100 x 195 cm - edition of 3 77 x 150 cm - edition of 3
CATHERINE NELSON Born in Sydney, Australia Lives and works in Gent Belgium and Amsterdam, Netherlands
Education 1996 Graduated from the NSW College of Fine Arts , Australia 1996 - 2008 Digital Artist in the film industry
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2013 "Other Worlds", Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia 2013 "Other Worlds", Julie Saul Project Space, New York 2013 "Other Worlds", Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2013 "Other Worlds", Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2012 "Other Worlds", Gallerynow, Seoul, South Korea 2011 "Future Memories", Galerie Paris-Beijing, Beijing, China 2011 "Future Memories", Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia 2011 "Future Memories", Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2011 "Future Memories", Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France 2011 "Creation", Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney, Australia
Group Exhibitions 2014 The Mandorla Art Award, Tuart Hill WA, Australia 2014 Ulsan Photo Festival, South Korea 2014 "Expedition" HeadOn Photo Festival Sydney 2013 Moreton Bay Art Awards, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia 2013 "Realiteit", Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, Canada 2013 "The Poetry of Earth is Never Dead", Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia 2013 "Australian Landscape : Present in the Now", Michael Reid Gallery,
Berlin, Germany
2013 "Digital Generation", Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium 2013 "Preview", Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia 2012 Heyson Prize for "Interpretation of Place", Hahndorf Academy, South Australia 2012 "Murr-ma", Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2012 "Terra Cognita", Photography Festival, Groningen, Holland 2012 "Space Oddity". S Cube Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, USA 2012 "legends" La Trobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia 2012 "Digital Darkroom" Slideshow event, The Annenberg Space for Photography, LA, USA 2012 "South of the Border", Queensland Centre of Photography, Brisbane, Australia 2012 "Out of the Darkness", Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia 2012 "Flipside: Australian Photography". Project A7,
Sarah Lee Artworks ad Projects, LA, USA
2011 Royal Bank of Scotland Emergind Artist Award Exhibition, Sydney, Australia 2011 Bowness Photography Prize Finalist Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 2011 "New Worlds", Hanmi Photography Museum, Seoul, Korea 2011 "Hyper Realistic", Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2011 "Magic Spaces", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2011 "Plus One", Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2010 "Lake", Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, Australia 2010 Royal Bank of Scotland, Finalist exhibition for Emerging Artist Award, Australia 2010 Blake Director’s Cut Exhibition, Australia 2009 Future Artist, Nikon Next online exhibition, Japan
- http://www.nikonnext.com
Selected Art Fairs 2014 Palm Springs Art Fair 2013 Toronto Art Fair 2013 Korean International Art Fair 2013 Art Stage Singapore 2013 Photo LA 2012 Miami Context 2012 KIAF, Korean International Art Fair 2012 Melbourne Art Fair
2012 FotoFever, Brussels 2012 Photo LA 2012 Art Stage Singapore 2011 Art Paris 2011 2011 Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand 2011 Slick 11, Paris, France
Grants, Prizes, and Residencies 2013 Finalist, Moreton Bay Art Awards, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia 2012 Winner Photographer of the Year, AX3 Awards, USA 2012 Winner Gallery NOW Artist Award, Seoul, South Korea 2012 Finalist Heyson Prize for „Interpretation of Place“, Hahndorf Academy, South Australia 2011 Winner ‚Eclectica“ 2011, Frensham Fellowship Art Prize, Mittagong, Australia 2011 Finalist Bowness Photography Prize , Melbourne, Australian 2011 Finalist Royal Bank of Scotland Emergind Artist Award, Sydney, Australia 2010 Winner Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist Client Choice Award, Australia
Collections Microsoft, University of South Florida, Morgan Stanley New York, Sydney City, Artbank Australia, Australia Club, Daryl Hewson Collection Australia, various private collections in Europe,USA, Asia and Australia
SELECTED REVIEWS Simona Venezia, Fente Di Fotografia, 01/10/2013, 'La Monade Del Mondo' Hallie Sekoff, Huffington Post, 24/10/2012, Catherine Nelson‘s 'Future Memoreis' are Imagintaive Landscapes Christopher Jobson , Slate, 26/10/2012, Miniature Worlds Digitally Assembled from Hundreds of Photographs Rafaele Oriani, Corriere Della Sera, 18/10/12, Quattro (Pre)visioni Sul Mondo Jakob Schiller, Wired, Raw File, 11/01/2012, Bizarre Micro-Planets Made From Hundreds of Landscape Photos Mike Peters, China Daily, 02/12/2011, Worlds Apart Michael Gold, Global Times, 30/11/2011, Wonder From Down Under Heather Jacobs, Australia Unlimited, 10/2011, Painting With Technology Catherine Caines, WISH, The Australian, 05/05/11, Digital Vision Bethany Small, Time Out Sydney, 7/12/2010, Photoshop Til You Drop
7th to 30th August 2014