Adam Nelson
Adam lives on the Isle of Anglesey and is currently studying a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Bangor University, North Wales.
Structure, Memory & Place
Adam's creative practice explores the ways in which environments retain traces of presence and how they shape our understanding of a place.
He is particularly interested in liminality, memory and structure - the spaces between states, the fragments of places we carry with us, and the forms through which we attempt to make sense of our surroundings.
His contemporary work investigates how landscapes are experienced, remembered and continually reinterpreted.
Adam bridges traditional and digital techniques through large abstract paintings and sculptural work. He paints lines and shapes that emerge from an instinctive visual vocabulary drawn from the natural world. He distils these familiar elements, fragmenting and reassembling them to create forms that occupy a space between recognition and abstraction. Through these processes the landscape becomes less a representation of place and more a language of memory, perception and sensation.
The resulting forms remain deliberately open-ended. He invites the viewer to move between what feels familiar and what remains uncertain.
Art & Environment
Alongside their abstract visual practice, Adam develops environment - rooted projects that explore connections with the natural world.
He collects field data from plants, water, rocks, coastal seaweed and trees using biofeedback technology, hydrophones and field gathering devices. Nature's responses are translated into unique ambient soundscapes as a another way of experiencing and interpreting the environments around us.
The process allows the landscape to become more than a subject but an active participant. He considers nature as a collaborator of his work.
Through these creative projects subtle rhythms and exchanges emerge and are shared between living systems, place and human perception.