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NOTES FROM THE FUTURE, a group exhibition at the Royal Overseas League (ROSL) Park Place, St. James’s London. Selected work, inv. international members of the Royal Society of Sculptors. 18 TH JULY to 22 ND SEPT 2024
2024
ROSL, St. James’s London
LINES IN THE LANDSCAPE, SELECTED WORK from the Barren Wasteland series 2019. The Icelandic Heart Association, Kópavogur 18TH NOV 2023 to the end of 2024
2023
SCULPTURE AND WALL WORK, REYKJAVÍK SOLO EXHIBITION 2ND - 29TH JULY 2022
LAYERS 2022
Public art in a private space, solo exhibition / The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavík
PUBLIC ART IN A PRIVATE SPACE JULY 2022
LAYERS II 2022
Public art in a private space, solo exhibition / The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavík
Royal Society of Sculptors 10gram Challenge Exhibition 2021. London 5 July - 19 September
More than 200 miniature sculptures were on display at Dora House as part of the Challenge. https://sculptors.org.uk/about/10gram-challenge
TWIST 2021
the 10gram Challenge, members exhibition, More than 200 miniature sculptures were on display at Dora House, The Royal Society of Sculptors, London
AUÐN / THE BARREN WASTELAND SERIES 2019, Gallery Grásteinn Reykjavík, two man Exhibition 4th - 30th January 2020
GZ. SANS TITRE Intern. Collective Exhibition of Contemporary Art. LE MARAIS Paris 16 - 19th September
Hvíld á jökli/rest on the glacier, Öræfajökull 1953 / Tungnaáröræfi 2019 1/13 (Kodak Retina and HasselbladXPan)
Royal Society of Sculptors summer exhibition 2020, London 13th July - 18th September.
Selected and curated by Robert and Nicky Wilson, Founders & Directors of Jupiter Artland
Barren wasteland series 2019
Royal Society of Sculptors summer exhibition 2020
THE MOUNTAIN SERIES 2014 - 2018 The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavík, Solo Exhibition 4th - 24th September 2018 Catalogue
TÍMABUNDIÐ LANDSLAG / TEMPORARY LANDSCAPE IS text Arndís Arnardóttir freelance art historian and curator
Breytingar / Changes “This waste are the ruins of consumerism in the contemporary world, ruins that are in constant motion, becoming mountains that lasts only for a certain amount of time, then moved or disappears by human involvement. Gudrun pauses at this momentum of transformation, in this gradual process that is on slow but constant drift. Like Robert Smithson, was fascinated by the impact of industry on the environment and the city, Gudrun points out to us the human impact within the city landscape”. Aldís Arnardóttir art historian and curator.
SKULPTUR The Royal British Society of Sculptors, Prince´s Gardens, Imperial College London 4th February - 15th May 2015 Exhibition Catalogue
Hatje Cantz ISBN 978-3-7757-4043-2 http://www.hatjecantz.de/skulptur--6549-1.html photographs AK Purkiss
Formalism The title of When a Country... raises the question of when a country does fall in love with itself. Possibly when it has satisfied its narcissistic tendencies, when it formally looks how it thinks it ought, when it has its desired outward composition. The attraction of compositional and for- mal perfection is clear in the works of Jacob Dahlgren, Michael Johansson, and Gudrun Nielsen.
…….”As for Gudrun Nielsen, she harnesses Japanese minimalistic form for Labyrinth (2015), inviting the viewer to change their perspective on the sky and the relationship of space to their own bodies. Labyrinth acts as a haven within a secretive enclosed garden only one step removed from the millions of visitors passing down Exhibition Road”.
SKULPTUR: Curatorial Overview Claire Mander, selected p.73
CHANGES SITE SPECIFIC SCULPTURE FOR NEW GREENHAM PARK, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND. Commission 2010
GREENHAM - A LONG TIME ACHANGIN'
“This is Changes by the Icelandic sculptor Gudrun Nielsen, a monumental piece that has just been unveiled at Greenham Common where US bombers used to land – you get the references just by looking at it. Since the Greenham Common women saw off the last of the Right Stuff in 1988 the trees have returned along with the birds and the rest of the flora and fauna, and the military buildings have either been demolished or converted by the Greenham Common Trust which now owns it. Nielsen won a competition along with the late Michael Kenny, but that was 12 years ago”…………
Text Simon Tait a freelance journalist, writer and editor. The former arts correspondent of The Times.
http://www.artsindustry.co.uk Simon Tait's Diary Issue 263 http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/simon-taitsdiary/45 17th November 2010
CHANGES New Greenham Park 2010
Steel and concrete may not be among the elements that first come to mind in relation to the term ‘changes’. However, creating her public artwork with the same title, Icelandic artist Guðrún Nielsen used these very materials in a remarkable manner. Nine Cor-ten steel plates were folded differently, placed on as many concrete slabs and lined up in the New Greenham Park. Visitors can walk along the massive yet playful objects or follow them back and forth with their eyes from a distance. On each end of the line the abstract shapes are simple, becoming more elaborate in the center where one of them takes the clear form of a fighter plane. The heavy-metal origami reminds us of the fact that this park was once a military airbase and the regular sculpture plinths are in fact recycled from the debris of the old landing strip. Together with the direct material reference, the systematic growth and unfurling of the geometric shapes symbolize the park’s history of renovation and improvement. Expressing the folding and unfolding of the past, Nielsen’s visual loop brings material life to the words of the poet William Cowper describing the wheel of time: ‘Still ending, and beginning still.’
The Icelandic Medical Journal, issue 10, Vol 96. cover and page 595, text Markús Þór Andrésson art curator, writer.
photographs Leigh Quinnell. www.laeknabladid.is
Japanese Teahouse Series 2005 - 2009 Gallery Sævars Karls, Rvk. 17th - 30th October. Catalogue text Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson Art historian, writer
2009 Japanese Teahouse Series Catalogue
S C U L P T U R E S - E N V I R O N M E N T A L I N S T A L L A T I O N S - M E D I A 2 0 2 2 - 1 9 8 7
Selected sculptures 1987 - 2022 photos by Gudrun Nielsen. AK.Purkiss 2015, Stuart Hollis 2009, Benson Sedgwick Engineering Ltd, V.Gudnason and Leigh Quinnell 2010, Roger Hoare 2002, Nick Morris 1992 and Gudrun Nielsen
Artworks © 1987–2022 Gudrun Nielsen. No images to be used without express prior written permission.