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Gemma Nelson is a young emerging British artist, based in London.
She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2007. Highly obsessive and organic in construction, her paintings create delicate yet chaotic tapestries in response to various themes such as female sexuality, fairytales and notions of webbing and nets. In other works patterning and totemic tattoos are very strong influences. Using Indian inks and mixed media on canvas, her paintings are high pitched in colour, creating illusionary spaces, surfaces and worlds that are both resonant and abstract. Nelson's paintings can be seen as objects of condensed time, whilst also suggesting disruption, mutation and beauty. Each of the obsessively crafted cells in her work represent a slot of a few minutes in the production of the painting, although when viewed in their entirety the cells merge and are reminiscent of the psychedelic patterns of the sixties. Since graduating Nelson has been selected by Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 to exhibit in '4 New Sensations' and the prestigious 'Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008' exhibition. Her work is held in several private collections and she has exhibited widely including John Jones Project Space, Laure Genillard Gallery, and the Coach Shed as part...
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