Simone Nelson, Floor Plan, 2020, detail, photo-collage. Courtesy the artist.

Solo Residency: Notation 3

Simone Nelson

10–27 Jun 2020

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.

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Simone Nelson, Notation 3 - Daytime, southern window #1, 2020, digital photograph. Courtesy the artist.

Simone Nelson, Notation 3 (North East), 2020, digital photograph. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Tim Gresham.

Simone Nelson, Notation 3 (North & South West), 2020, digital photograph. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Tim Gresham.

Simone Nelson, Notation 3 - Daytime, southern window #2, 2020, digital photograph. Courtesy the artist.

Simone Nelson, Floor Plan, 2020, photo-collage. Courtesy the artist.

Onsite, Residency, Publication

Overview

With the gallery spaces closed for a much of 2020, Blindside initiated a series of on- and off-site solo residency projects. Artists included Anna Dunnill, MJ Flamiano, Jessie Gall, Simone Nelson, Mira Oosterweghel, Amaara Raheem, Ella Sowinska, Ivey Wawn, Benjamin Woods, Elke Varga, Yusi Zang.

"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."

Acknowledgment

This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.

Biographies

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.