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Artist Talk | Mike Nelson

12 Mar 2024

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Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00

Free admission

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Helston
England, United Kingdom

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  • Redruth Station
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Celebrated British artist Mike Nelson will give a talk about his work, introduced by and in conversation with Jonty Lees, Course Leader, BA(Hons) Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art.

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Mike Nelson’s work manifests itself in a very physical manner, encouraging us to enter and occupy a work of art. Often his structures are on such a large scale that we can inhabit them, a ploy he uses to encourage empathy or feeling in the viewer, inviting us to understand the work through all the senses. His practice is also very much underpinned by literary and filmic references; he uses the constructed worlds found in these sources to generate spatial structures that in turn suggest new narratives. Many of these narratives focus on belief systems and on the complex myriad of ideas within the structures of the societies evoked in the work.

The talk is supported and hosted by Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth University, and organised by CAST as part of The Cornwall Workshop, 2024. 

Tuesday 12 March, 5pm 

Falmouth Campus Lecture Theatre 1, TR11 4RH
Free admission, booking essential  
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/falmouthart/1113560​

Image of Mike Nelson. Photo: Arnaud Mbaki, courtesy the artist and Hayward Gallery.

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