Nicholas (Nic) Folland (born 1967) is an Australian artist and arts educator based in

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Early life and education

Nicholas Folland was born in

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, South Australia, in 1967. He spent two years doing a Bachelor of Design course at the South Australian College of Advanced Education in 1985 to 1986, later undertaking and graduating with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the

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(UniSA) in 1998. Later, he returned to study and received a Masters of Visual Arts from the

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at the

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in 2009.

Career

he is head of contemporary studies and sculpture at

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Artistic style and subject

Folland uses

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s such as knives, trophies, furniture, crystalware, and

taxidermied Taxidermy is the art of preserving an animal's body by mounting (over an armature) or stuffing, for the purpose of display or study. Animals are often, but not always, portrayed in a lifelike state. The word ''taxidermy'' describes the process ...

animals to create sculpture and mixed media artworks. An example of his work in the

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, ''The door was open…'' (2006), features a

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with a refrigerator coil that creates a sphere of ice in the centre of the chandelier.

Exhibitions

''The Microscope Project'' was an exhibition developed by Flinders University Art Museum in 2014, which included work by South Australian artists Folland, Ian Gibbins, Deb Jones, Catherine Truman, and Angela Valamanesh, as well as writer and artist

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. Emeritus professor Ian Gibbins was a neuroscientist, and Catherine Truman had worked with him as an

artist-in-residence Artist-in-residence (also Writer-in-residence), or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs that involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs that pr ...

. The idea was to repurpose decommissioned scientific equipment and repurpose it into artworks. The exhibition, curated by Fiona Salmon and Maddie Reece, was installed at

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's City Gallery, included sculpture, installation, moving image, sound, photography, and text.

Recognition and awards

In 1997, Folland won the Annual Art Purchase Prize at UniSA. In 1999, he was awarded the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, which enabled him to join the research program work at the

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and the Public Art Observatory in

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, Spain. Folland is the subject of the 2014

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monograph, ''Nicholas Folland''.

Collections

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

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Folland, Nicholas Living people Artists from Adelaide Mixed-media artists 20th-century Australian sculptors 21st-century Australian sculptors Australian art educators University of South Australia alumni University of Sydney alumni Artists from South Australia Australian contemporary artists 1967 births