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 Adelaide Central School of Art is an independent, not-for-profit, accredited higher education provider of tertiary courses in the visual arts, located in Adelaide, Australia. Adelaide Central School of Art uses the atelier model of visual arts ...

, a Samstag scholar (awarded 1999), and subject of the 2014

SALA Festival The South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA, or SALA Festival) is a statewide, open-access visual arts festival which takes place during August in South Australia. SALA features a range of approximately 600 venues including galleries and ...

monograph, ''Nicholas Folland''.

Biography

Folland was born in Adelaide in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the

South Australian School of Art The University of South Australia (UniSA) is a public research university in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a founding member of the Australian Technology Network of universities, and is the largest university in South Australi ...

University of South Australia The University of South Australia (UniSA) is a public research university in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a founding member of the Australian Technology Network of universities, and is the largest university in South Australi ...

. He received a Masters of Visual Arts from the

Sydney College of the Arts The Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) is a contemporary art school that was a faculty of the University of Sydney from 1990 until 2017, when it became a school of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Until the end of 2019, the campus was locat ...

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

in 2009. 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 The Piet Zwart Institute is a post-graduate institute for study and research in art, media and design based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Named in memory of the Dutch designer Piet Zwart, it was inaugurated in 2001. The current postgraduate study p ...

and the Public Art Observatory in Barcelona.

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 Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) may refer to: Africa * Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco, officially le Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi Asia East Asia * Museum of Contemporary Art Shangha ...

(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.

Collections

Folland’s work is held in the following collections: *

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two ...

* Chapman, Christopher. Cleanskin. ''Eyeline'', Vol. 37, Spring 1998: 39-40. * Knights, Mary. ''Heartlines: 27–28 February 2010''. SASA Gallery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, 2010. * Knight, Marys, & Kunda, Maria. ''Chance encounters''. Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, 2009. * Laird, Tessa. Against the floe: the recent works of Nicholas Folland. ''Art and Australia'', v.50, no.4, Winter 2013: (628)-635. * McKenzie, Jenna. Changing states: 'The extreme climate of Nicholas Folland'. ''Art Monthly Australia'', No. 274, Oct 2014: 32-39. * Ryan Renshaw Gallery. ''Nicholas Folland''. Ryan Renshaw, Fortitude Valley, Qld, 2012. * Salmon, Fiona. ''The Microscope project: Nicholas Folland, Ian Gibbins, Deb Jones, Catherine Truman, Angela Valamanesh''. Adelaide, S.A. Flinders University Art Museum, 2014. * Slade, Lisa. ''Nicholas Folland''. Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Australia, 2014. * Smith, Russell. The Art of Antony Hamilton and Nicholas Folland as Spatial History. ''Southerly'', Vol. 66, No. 2, 2006: 40-55. * Thwaites, Vivonne. ''Build me a city: an exploration of the archives of the Architecture Museum, UniSA by seven artists''. Architecture Museum and Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, S. Aust, 2012. http://www.artroom5.com.au/downloads/BMACcatalogue.pdf * Walker, Wendy. Becalmed: the art of going nowhere in the work of Nicholas Folland. Artlink, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2006: 46-49. * Walker, Wendy. The extreme climate of Nicholas Folland. ''Artlink'', Vol. 34, No. 4, Dec 2014: 76. * Wolfe, Ross. ''Kindle and swag: the Samstag effect''. University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, S. Aust, 2004.

References

External links

Artist’s website

Entry in Design and Art Australia Online
{{DEFAULTSORT:Folland, Nicholas Living people Artists from Adelaide Mixed-media artists 20th-century Australian sculptors 21st-century Australian sculptors Australian art teachers University of South Australia alumni University of Sydney alumni Artists from South Australia Australian contemporary artists 1967 births

Biography

Artistic style and subject

Collections

Further reading

References

External links