The monumental work "Borrowed View 231" is a 2012 sculptural, video and sound installation. The work consists of 231 repeated sculptural forms, displayed in straight lines on three perspex forms suspended from the ceiling.  Under each sculptural form are equally as many coloured drawings each different from the next one. The installation refers to the Japanese expression „borrowed landscape“. A technique where vistas extend beyond a structure, into the distance. On each coloured drawing is one line from the poem Borrowed View 231 repeated differently on each drawing twohundredandthirtyone times  A vital part of the installation is the projection of the drawings on the gallery wall constant changes of scenery "the borrowed landscape".gn

The poem Borrowed View 231 one part of the Edsvik installation.

Link to YouTube.

One beautiful morning view from across the Edsviken Sollentuna

The installation in Edsvik Konsthall Sweden

 the Tamarama coast, Bondi, Sydney Australia.

Work in progress for the installation in Sweden in May

Gudrun is one of the selected artists to participate in the exhibition “European Sculpture - methods, materials, poetry”, at Edsvik Art Gallery in Sweden, May 5 – 27, 2012. 

..."We have received applications from all over Europe with a broad spectrum of methods and materials. 102 artists .applied and 47 were accepted with a total of 100 artworks". 

The members of the jury were:
-          Ricardo Donoso, Director of Edsvik Art Gallery
-          Sam Westerholm, Sculptor – member of Skulptörsamfundet
-          Segio Perea, Curator and sculptor
-          Robert Drees, Director of Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany

Edsvik Art Gallery in cooperation with the Swedish Sculptors Association and Sculpture network Germany

Link to Youtube. "After buying Greenham Common and creating a business park on the former military and nuclear airbase, the Greenham Common Trust commissioned the Royal British Society of Sculptors to hold an international competition in 1998 to create new pieces of public artwork. Icelandic artist Gudrun Nielsen´s design was chosen from over 150 international entries to create the site specific piece of artwork at the entrance to the park"

Link to Youtube. My participation in the exhibitions. The Absent Belfry Shö-Rö 2011, Labyrinth 2010, Obi V and Skylight 2009, Memory 2005 and Echo 2002 in the Harold Martin Botanic Garden, University of Leicester.

 Link to Youtube. Exhibiting Obi V in the Harold Martin Botanic Garden University of Leicester.

Invited to Exhibit in SÍM-húsið Hafnarstræti 16 Reykjavík, Iceland.

www.sim.is/sim/

Samband Íslenskra Myndlistarmanna / The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists

Japanese Teahouse Series 2005-2011.  Image detail of a new work, Borrowed View 231.  One of 231 coloured drawings, a part of an installation-work in progress.  There my focus has been on the Japanese expression "borrowed landscape".  A technique where vistas extend beyond a structure, into the distance.gn

Please find image under  Works 2005 - 2012 / Drawings and Models

Autumn is here yet again, time to take the sculpture away.

A Decade of Sculpture in the Garden exhibition, has come to an end in the Harold Martin Botanic Garden University of Leicester.

Please find a few autumn images amongst others, of The Absent Belfry Shö-Rö under Recent Works 2009 - 2012 and under Works 1989 - 2012

For me there are two kinds of drawings.  The necessary accurate measurement working drawing, for the purpose of making a sculpture. And then it is the drawing that pleases my mind, with the freedom of expression.........................
See further text under Review / 9 gn 23.03.2011

Image, part of the participating artists, conference lecturer and guests, at the campus before a coach journey to visit Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the new Hepworth Wakefield 27th August.

Juliet Macdonald from Huddersfield University - John D.Antone and Carl Billingsley USA - Silke Katharina Hahn, Bettina Ludicke, Petra Paffenholz and Gustaf Reinhard from Germany - Dilys Jackson, Deanna Petherbridge and Johannes von Stumm UK - Eva Moosbrugger and Ilse Schrottenbach Austria - Mark Reist Switzerland - Wouter Muiler Belgium - Henrik Troelsen and Benny Jensen Denmark

Beatriz Blanch Spain, behind the camera.

Greenham - a long time achangin'

This is Changes by the Icelandic sculptor Gudrun Nielsen, a monumental piece that has just been unveiled at Greenham Common where US bombers used to land – you get the references just by looking at it. Since the Greenham Common women saw off the last of the Right Stuff in 1988 the trees have returned along with the birds and the rest of the flora and fauna, and the military buildings have either been demolished or converted by the Greenham Common Trust which now owns it.  Nielsen won a competition along with the late Michael Kenny, but that was 12 years ago and while Kenny’s large geometric form, Broken Symmetry, was unveiled almost immediately by Ringo Starr (a Kenny fan and local resident), Gudrun’s was a little tardy in taking off, as it were............... 17.11.2010 / Simon Tait's Diary

Old photo, November 1992 from the opening of the Exhibition "A Festival of Scandinavian Design".  The Icelandic president Fru Vigdís Finnbogadóttir and Gudrun Nielsen by the site specific sculpture Wheel of Progress.

Please find more images under Works 1989-2012 / Wheel of Progress 1992 The Design Museum London.

or under .......Links

"Committed to the pursuit of excellence in the art form, we aim to inspire, inform and engage people with sculpture / three dimensional art"......... RBS

Please visit the recently relaunched website for the Royal British Society of Sculptors

Image, Wheel of Progress 1992 the Design Museum London.  Gudrun Nielsen Fellow of the RBS.

"Harold Martin Botanic Garden" This exhibition will be a reflection of the last 10 years of Sculpture in the Garden but will also present some of the most exceptional current contemporary practice and will again be curated by sculptor Dr John Sydney Carter FRBS.  The exhibition is being managed by Embrace Arts, the University of Leicester’s arts centre. Saturday 25 June to Sunday 30 October 2011 Image Skylight detail, exhibited in 2009 in the Botanic Garden.

"ABSENT WALLS", a one man exhibition in the Art Gallery at IÐA, Lækjargötu in the old town centre of Reykjavík 10th January - 5th February.  Image: detail of installation and drawing on gallery floor.

Great exibitions in Torino: "European Sculpture - Difference & Diversity",
at "Nave Gallery" in Grugliasco.
Pubblicato da Taccuini Internazionali
IL CONTENITORE E IL CONTENUTO
Text by Enrico Mercatali 6. November

printout, page 2 of 12

Work by Gudrun in the background.  Coloured drawings and the geometrical sculpture Labyrinth II
Image from page.2 of printout.

In Recent Works 2009 - 2012 and under Works 1989 - 2012 please find Changes 1998 - 2010. Installed sculpture, work in progress and the installation of Changes 14th July 2010 in New Greenham Park, Berkshire, today Greenham Business Park. A winning design from the International Greenham Common Sculpture Competition in 1998.

Innlit Útlit Skjár I, TV Iceland featuring the sculptor Gudrun Nielsen interviewed by

Nadia Katrín Banine in Gallery Saevar Karls Reykjavík 10th Januar 2006.

Innlit Útlit Skjár I

"EUROPEAN SCULPTURE - Difference & Diversity"  - curated by Patrizia Bottallo.
16 settembre- 6 novembre 2010
Nave Gallery - Parco culturale Le Serre
Via Tiziano Lanza 31 Grugliasco Torino

video by Edoardo Garis

www.martinart.it
www.sculpture-network.org

 Læknablaðið / The Icelandic Medical Journal 10/2010 photos and text. Cover and  page. 595 http://www.laeknabladid.is/

Text by Markús Þór Andrésson
photos Leigh Quinnell
See text in Icelandic under Review / 7

 Læknablaðið / The Icelandic Medical Journal 10/2010 page. 595

by Trish Lee, Arts Editor, Newbury Today

Two new publick art works are celebrated at New Greenham Park........................Owing to inclement weather, about 50 guests, including the Icelandic ambassador were taken on a coach tour of the sculpture sites where the had been due to be ‘unveiled’, after the chairman of Greenham Common Trust, Sir Peter Michael, officially marked their completion.

Icelandic sculpture takes pride of place at the entrance to New Greenham Park

Leaflet text by Julian May and Markús Þór Andrésson can be found under Review / 5 and 6

Leaflet side b

Exhibition of sculptures and installations by 30 sculpture network members from 10 countries 16.09.- 6.11.2010 in Grugliasco, Italy. Introduction by Patrizia Bottallo and further text by Marc Wellmann and Miranda MacPhail from the exhibition catalogue, can be found under Review / 8

Leaflet for he 2010 exhibition "European Sculpture: Diversity and the difference in practice"
Text by Aðalstein Ingólfsson, Julian May and Markús Þór Andrésson can be found under Review / 3, 4 and 6 

Leaflet side b

Guðrún Nielsen tekur þátt í samsýningu evrópskra listammanna á Ítalíu. / .....participates in an exhibition of European artists in Italy.
Interview. Morgunblaðið (Iceland) menning.
Text by Árni Matthíasson page.28

, the winning design of the Trust´s international sculpture competition, takes pride of place at the entrance to New Greenham Park.

Greenham Common Trust newsletter 13  autumn 2010 (backcover - page.8)
Text by Julian May, photos by Leigh Quinnell

Skúlptúr eftir Guðrúnu Nielsen komið fyrir í New Greenham Park / Sculpture by Gudrun Nielsen installed in New Greenham Park
Interview. Morgunblaðið (Iceland) menning.  
Text by Hólmfríður Gísladóttir page.31

A sculpture has been unveiled to mark the work of the Greenham Common Trust,

..The design, called Changes, celebrates the transformation of the........

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Icelandic sculptor Gudrun Nielsen, MA FRBS, has created a maze in the University of Leicester Botanic Garden in Oadby, as part of ‘Heart, Head and Hands’, the ninth summer sculpture exhibition held by the University.

Not quite, perhaps, on the scale of Hampton Court’s maze, Nielsen’s creation has been designed uniquely for the...

by Stella Couloutbanis

press release:
'Changes' - the winning design of Greenham Common Trust's international sculpture competition - has taken pride of place at the entrance to New Greenham Park.

After buying Greenham Common and creating a business park on the former military and nuclear airbase, the Trust commissioned the Royal British Society of Sculptors to hold an international competition in 1998 to create three pieces of public artwork.

Icelandic artist Gudrun Nielsen's...

Text by Julian May

Industrial park and nature reserve

One of many articles from 1998.

The Advertiser Croydon, South London. Text by R.Bing page.31

Text by Dagur Gunnarsson. Morgunbladid (Iceland), Lesbók 6. June page.2

Art monthly
Gudrun Nielsen Design for Changes 1998
Artnotes page.16 

 New sculpture for Greenham Common

Sculpture, Spring issue page. 9  1998
text by Colette Bailey
It would have been impossible in decades gone by to have imagined anything at Greenham Common beyond the gigantic concrete runways, the nuclear bombers taking off, towering perimeter fences and the permanently encamped protestors. But how time has changed everything. 

The article can be found under Review / 1

The site is by the main entrance of New Greenham Park within the 900 acres of the former military installation, the Greenham Common World war two airbase. The nine geometrical forms present movement along a path, the folding and the unfolding of the past. Material in the nine part origami sculpture is corten-steel, material in the plinths is recycled materials from the redundant military infrastructure, the runway. gn

Please find images and more information about Changes under Works 1989 - 2012 and Recent Works 2009 - 2012

Exhibition (16.09.-6.11.2010) and accompanying symposium (16.-19.09.2010) in Grugliasco near by Torino, Italy in cooperation with martin Martini Arte Internazionale www.martinart.it and the City of Grugliasco

What: Sculptures and installations of 30 sculpture network members from 10 countries.

Curators: Patrizia Bottallo (Italy), Rob Ward (England) and Hartmut Stielow (Germany)

Artists
168 artists of sculpture network from 20 nations participated in the call for proposals. An independent jury has selected 30 artists in the end of April to participate in the exhibition.

These are the artists the jury has selected:

Vaclav Bajer (PL), Bildstein | Glatz (A/CH), Beatriz Blanch (ES), Ulrike Buhl (DE), Alberto de Braud, (IT), Adri A.C. de Fluiter (NL), Rainer Düvell (DE), Daniel Eggli (CH), Anke Eilergerhard (DE), Johann Feilacher (A), Knopp Ferro (DE), Rainer Fest (DE), Deborah Gardner (UK), Alexandra Klawitter (DE), Prof. Hans Lamb (DE), Peter Lindberg (DE), Victor López Gonzáles (DE), Kees Machielsen (NL), Susanne Kathlen Mader (NO), Eva Moosbrugger (A), Gudrun Nielsen (IS), Pieter Obels (NL), María Oriza Pérez (ES), Alessandra Porfidia (IT), Jill Randall (UK), Ornella Rovera (IT), Anneke Schepke (DE), Prof. Pavel Schmidt (DE), Barbara Szüts (DE), Matthäus Thoma (DE)

A short clip taken from BBC 1's Countryfile. Featuring Ian and Barbara Pollard 'The Naked Gardeners' at the Abbey House Gardens ... included Gudrun Nielsen´s Japanese Teagarden Gate "Amigasamon" by the Monastic pond. 

presented by Matt Baker, Countryfile BBC 17.May 2009 TV UK

, by the Monastic pond Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury.  The home of The Naked Gardeners.

Gudrun Nielsen solo exhibition catalogue page 1 - 12
Gallerí Sævars Karls 17. - 30.October 2009
Text by Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson, photos and layout by
Gudrun Nielsen
please find the Catalogue here

the catalogue text can also be found under Review / 3

Myndlist sem umhverfi Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson skrifar um skúlptúra Guðrúnar Nielsen / Art as invironment ...........

Reflection on the art of Gudrun Nielsen. The Art Section "Menning og Listir" in Frettabladid (Iceland): MENNING, cover + p. 8 and 9 by Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson.  Art Historian and Writer.

The article in Icelandic and English can be found under Review / 2 and on the web in Icelandic.

 p. 8 by Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson.

p. 9 by Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson

 Guðrún Nielsen education and work of an Artist, Tímarit íslenskra háskólakvenna, Iceland.
page 6, 7, 8 and 9 Vol 8 (1), July 2008

Gudrun Nielsen particepates in the RBS Centenary Celebrations.  "SPECTRUM" at Abbey House Garden, Malmesbury the home of the Naked Gardeners Barbara and Ian Pollard.

Interview, by Kolbrún Bergþórsdóttir Morgunblaðið (Iceland), Blaðið  "KOLLAOGKÚLTÚRINN" page.16