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Nathaniel Mellors
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Nathaniel Mellors (born 1974, Doncaster, England)[1] is a British artist and musician.[2]
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He studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, the University of Oxford and the Royal College of Art.[3]
Mellors makes installations "packed with ad-hoc sculpture, psychedelic theatre and absurdist, satirical film".[4] Mellors output includes installation, sculpture, film and video, music, performance, collage, painting, prints and critical writing.[5]
His work in the show Art Now: The Way in Which it Landed, curated by Ryan Gander at Tate Britain in 2008, was Thinking Rock Speaks, an empty speech bubble made of steel attached to a lump of alabaster.[6] Jonathan Griffin in Frieze magazine said that Mellors "gets the last laugh ... Sometimes there really is just nothing to say."[6]
In 2002 Mellors co-founded Junior Aspirin Records, a not-for-profit record label releasing music by artists in limited editions. Mellors plays bass in the art-rock group Skill 7 Stamina 12 with Dan Fox, Ashley Marlowe and Maaike Schoorel, and has also released music with Toilet, God in Hackney, Mysterius Horse and under his own name.[7]
In 2009 at the South London Gallery, he put on a one night stage version of his film, The Time Surgeon.[8] Jessica Lack in The Guardian described the variety of styles and genres in his films, "skimming off a wide range of artistic references from prog rock to hit TV series The Prisoner, with which he creates brilliantly offbeat installations".[8]
He was represented in the Tate Trienniel 2009, Altermodern, by a work Giantbum 2009, based on a
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