The Samstag Alumni
The 1999 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Peter Alwast | Stephen Bram | Kristian Burford | Nicholas Folland | Paul Hoban | Hanh Ngo | Deborah Paauwe | Matthew Warren
Reworking culture seems to be a preoccupation of Nicholas Folland, though I doubt you'll find any expressive marks or metaphysical musings spoiling his bratty, minimalist objects. And as for going native, Folland brings his hip, transnational Gen-X style to bear on national culture, particularly the Australian manufactured landscape and the urban rites which conform dutifully, namely sports. By its own mythologizing standards, Aussieland has set itself apart in world media by using sports culture to train its people in the art of spectatorship and national identity.
In Landscape (Sports Sunday) Folland seizes upon this myth and wryly plays it according to self-inflicted rules of the tyrannical architectural grid: Governance of space equals governance of power.
M.A. Greenstein
from her Samstag catalogue essay;
Back to the Future - From Wry to Rave
| Nicholas Folland Born 1967, Adelaide, South Australia |
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| 1999 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship Graduate Program, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1998 | Bachelor of Visual Arts, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide |
Landscape (Sports Sunday) 1997
mixed media
140 x 140 x 46 cm
© the artist
Jason is a LA. Z. BOY 1998
steel, sign, and reclining chair
180 x 160 x 190 cm
© the artist