NOTATION 3

10 - 27 Jun 2020

Isolation residency

+ online exhibition

project | March - July

Simone Nelson 

Plans

Change of plans

Contingency plan

The best laid plans…

Plan B

2020 is the year of plan B

Shelter in place 

All bets are off

(Excerpt from Notation 3 Open Studio) 

In March 2020, two months prior to the planned exhibition of my site-specific work, Notation 3, COVID-19 restrictions hit Melbourne and BLINDSIDE Gallery closed.  In response, I embarked upon what was to become a five-month process, transforming the exhibition of this site-specific work into an isolation residency book-ended by two online publications; Notation 3 Open Studio and Isolation Residency.

Marking time and space during a period of profound global change, this project’s central action has passed.  The online publications remain, however, as a somewhat paradoxical testament to impermanence.

Click on the image below to access Simone Nelson’s online publications page and find both documents.

Simone Nelson is a visual artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.  Informed by a background in choreography, her drawing practice explores the body's relationship to architecture and place through processes, actions and the performativity of documentation.

Nelson completed her BFA (Hons) at the University of Melbourne in 2018 where she received the Stuart Black memorial Scholarship.  She has exhibited at various Melbourne ARI’s including Conical, Westspace, Kings, 5 walls and BLINDSIDE.  Recent commissions and residencies include 'Architecture As...'  Union House, University of Melbourne and the Matsushima Island Residency, Japan.

IMAGES | Simone Nelson, Floor Plan, 2020 (details), photo-collage | Courtesy the artist.