The Samstag Alumni
The 1993 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Shane Carn |
Robert Cleworth |
Sally Cox |
Mark Hislop
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Jacqueline Hocking |
Nigel Jamieson |
Ruth McDougall |
Sally Mannall
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Ruth Marshall |
Roger Noakes
The principles of hermetic philosophy drive everything in Nigel Jamieson's three-dimensional conjurings. In the un-predetermined, arbitrary manner of the archetypal fool, Jamieson toys with his objects and their placement until latent meaning emerges and is alchemically discovered, recognised, reified.
In Temperance, built on the geometry of a spiral, the structure is so tenuously fabricated and kinetically charged that it may fall at any moment. Yet, transcendentally, like nature with its balancing flow of opposites, it achieves a self-supporting harmony.
Ross Wolfe
from his Samstag essay;
Samstag The First Millenium
| Nigel Jamieson Born 1964, Hamilton, New Zealand |
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| 1993 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA |
| 1992 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney |
Temperance 1991
mixed media, table top, twisted fluoro
various dimensions
© the artist
The Fool 1992
mixed media
102 x 170 x 60 cm
© the artist