Nicholas Folland

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Nicholas Folland
Born
Nicholas Folland

1967 (age 5556)
Nationality Australian
EducationSouth Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Known for Sculpture
Awards Samstag Scholar, 1999, SALA Festival Featured Artist 2014
Website http://nicholasfolland.com/

Nicholas (Nic) Folland is a South Australian artist and arts educator. He is Head of Contemporary Studies and Sculpture at Adelaide Central School of Art, [1] a Samstag scholar (awarded 1999), [2] and subject of the 2014 SALA Festival monograph, Nicholas Folland. [3]

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Biography

Folland was born in Adelaide in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia. [4] He received a Masters of Visual Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in 2009. [5] In 1999, he was awarded the Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship which enabled him to join the research program work at the Piet Zwart Institute and the Public Art Observatory in Barcelona. [4]

Artistic style and subject

Folland uses found objects such as knives, trophies, furniture, crystalware and taxidermied animals to create sculpture and mixed media artworks. An example of his work in the Museum of Contemporary Art (Australia), The door was open… (2006), features a chandelier with a refrigerator coil that creates a sphere of ice in the centre of the chandelier. [6]

Collections

Folland's work is held in the following collections:

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References

  1. "Nicholas Folland". Adelaide Central School of Art. 13 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  2. "Samstag Alumni 1999". www.unisa.edu.au. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  3. Slade, Lisa; Folland, Nicholas; institution.), Art Gallery of South Australia; institution.), Greenaway Art Gallery (2014). Nicholas Folland. Kent Town, South Australia : Wakefield Press. p. 144. ISBN   9781743053072.
  4. 1 2 institution.), Flinders University Art Museum (2014). The Microscope project : Nicholas Folland, Ian Gibbins, Deb Jones, Catherine Truman, Angela Valamanesh. Adelaide, S.A. Flinders University Art Museum. p. 48. ISBN   9780992547202.
  5. institution.), Flinders University Art Museum (2014). The Microscope project : Nicholas Folland, Ian Gibbins, Deb Jones, Catherine Truman, Angela Valamanesh. Adelaide, S.A. Flinders University Art Museum. ISBN   9780992547202.
  6. 1 2 "Nicholas Folland". Museum of Contemporary Art (Australia). Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  7. "Nicholas FOLLAND - Artists - NGV". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 21 September 2018.