Simeon Nelson obtained a BA in Fine Art from Sydney College of the Arts in 1987. After establishing himself as an artist in Australia and Asia in the 1990’s, he moved to London in 2001 and is currently working on commissions and exhibitions in Asia, Australia, Europe and the UK. He is Reader in Sculpture at the University of Hertfordshire and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. He was a Finalist in the National Gallery of Australia’s National Sculpture Prize in 2005 and a Finalist in the 2003 Jerwood Sculpture Prize. Passages, a monograph on his work was published by The University of New South Wales Press, Sydney in 2001. In 2008 he had a solo show at the Royal Geographical Society, London as their inaugural artist in residence. He has received numerous awards including seven arts council grants in Australia and the UK, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship in 2000 and a Leverhulme Trust grant in 2007. In 1997 he was the sole Australian representative to the IX Triennial India, New Delhi. He has completed numerous commissions in England and Australia including Ben Chifley, Sydney, Desiring Machine, a monumental sculpture on the outskirts of Melbourne; Cactal, the University of Teesside, UK; Proximities, a major commission for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and Flume, a large-scale site-specific commission for Ashford, Kent, UK. His work is held by a number of public and private collections including the Art/Omi Foundation, New York; The Jerwood Foundation, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; The Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK, and Goldman Sachs. He is represented by Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne. He lives in East London with his partner Deej Fabyc and daughter, Beata.