Nathaniel Mellors Black Gold, 2001 (installation view)
Nathaniel Mellors Black Gold, 2001 (installation view)
Nathaniel Mellors Black Gold, 2001 (installation view)
The gallery has become the physical landscape of a night's television. All sources of natural light have been removed and numerous entertainment options pulse before the viewer.
Black Gold programmes include:
Gameshow: Jim Prince rides the Super Escalator.
Transport Cafe: A soap opera for older people.
Inside Colonel Parker: At home with Colonel Tom Parker, showman.
Jailbreak: Documentary on Charles Bronson, prisoner.
Press and Hold Birds: Wildlife.
Lancaster Fishmonger Complaint: Public access slot.
Snuff: By drowning.
Gacy: Straight to video monologue about the physical imitation
of a serial killer.
Black Gold is Nathaniel Mellors’ first exhibition for Matt’s Gallery, and his first solo show.
Nathaniel Mellors was born in Doncaster in 1974. He studied at the Ruskin School, Oxford University and is currently in the final year of his Masters in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art.
Mellors’ work was selected for New Contemporaries in both 1999 and 2000.
Born Doncaster, England 1974, Lives and works in London Studied 1999–2001 Royal College of Art, London and 1996–1999 Ruskin School, Oxford University Solo Exhibitions & Performances 2009 Giantbum, Lombard Fried Projects, New York; Giantbum, Stedelijk Bureau, Amsterdam; The Time Surgeon, South London Gallery 2007 The Ill-Tempered Manifesto, Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London (performance); Nought to Sixty, ICA, London (Junior Asprin Records performance) 2007 The Timesurgeon, Artsway, Sway, Hampshire; The Lowry Block, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed (withdrawn) 2006 First Blood Japan, Performance at Ikebukuro Festival of International Art, Tokyo (Grizedale Arts Commission); Hateball, Alison Jacques Gallery, London 2005 Nathaniel Mellors/Maaike Schoorel/Ibid Projects, Vilnius, Lithuania; Hateball, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Brain One/Mózg Jeden, Galeria Potocka, Cracow, Poland; The Pink Mist, Playstation, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2004 Profondo Viola, Matt’s Gallery, London; The Landscape Critics Limp, Modern Art Oxford (with Ashley Marlowe); 2003 Prince Lightning – The Long Scratch, touring: The Changing Room, Stirling; Scotland, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh; The Brewery, Kendal [publication] 2001 Black Gold, Matt’s Gallery, London Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 The Time Surgeon, De Hallen, Haarlem; The Time Surgeon, New Forest Pavilion, Venice Biennale; Contour Biennial of Video Art 2009, Mechelen, Belgium; Altermodern, Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain 2008 Art Now, Tate Britain, London; Deep Screen Art in Digital Culture: Proposal for Municipal Acquisition 08 , Stedelijk Museum CS (SMCS), Amsterdam; Agrifashionistas, Arts / A Foundation, Rochelle School, London 2007 Expect Nothing, Gallery for One, Dublin; Open 2007, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; 00s THE HISTORY OF A DECADE THAT HAS NOT yet BEEN NAMED, Biennale de Lyon 2007, Lyon; The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future, De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands; Design for Living, Initial Access, Wolverhampton; The Return of the Seven Samurai, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, Switzerland; Final Exhibition at 4 Clifford Street, Alison Jacques Gallery; The Scandinavian Underground...here...now, De Praktijk, Amsterdam 2006 Minotaur Blood, Jonathan Vyner / Fortescus Avenue, London; OHR, (performance), Virtually Grizedale, A Foundation, Liverpool Biennale; Tokyo Rambo, (film screening), Virtually Grizedale, A Foundation, Liverpool Biennale; Tokyo Rambo, (performance), Grizedale Arts programme at the Ikkebukuro Festival of International Art, Tokyo, July; Sculpture Garden, Phoenix Garden, London 2005 Encore, Byuk Londra Oteli, Istanbul Biennial; If You're Feeling Sinister..., Alona Kagan, New York Offside, Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane, Dublin 2004 Romantic Detachment, PS1, New York; Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London; No-How, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; 2003 Pod War (The Landscape Critics), ‘Leave The Capitol’: Frieze Art Fair Film and Video Programme, London; We’ll Meet You In The Lobby, Londra Hotel, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul; Someplace Unreachable, IBID Projects, London; Spiritual Hunger, Daniel Silverstein, New York; Senso Unico, Italia Telecom Building, Venice Biennale; Roadshow, Grizedale Arts and touring [publication]; 2002 Lets Roll, Apex Arts, New York; Junior Aspirin Promotional Video, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam; Band in Crisis (with SKILL 7 STAMINA 12), Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College, Dundee, Scotland [publication]; Nathaniel Mellors, Dan Perjovschi, A. Araminas, IBID Projects, London; It Rocks But Gently, Folly Gallery, Lancaster 2001 An Elephant Station, Vilma Gold Gallery, London 2000 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2000, Milton Keynes Gallery and touring [publication]; Additional Research Into the Phenomenon, Glasgow Project Room, Scotland 1999 New Contemporaries ’99, Exchange Flags Building, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, South London Gallery [publication] Commissions & Residencies 2002-2003 Artist’s Work Residency, Grizedale, Cumbria 2001 Slot Art (with Barney Mellors), 3-minute commission for Channel 4, June
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2007 Skill 7 Stamina 12, Everett True, Plan B Magazine, March; The Compiler, Michael Bracewell, The Wire, March; Best of 2006, Jennifer Higgie, Frieze no. 104, Jan-Feb 2006 London, Eliza Williams, Flash Art International no.249, July-September; Artist's project, Untitled no. 38, Summer 2006; Nathaniel Mellors, Steve Beasley, Untitled no.38; Nathaniel Mellors, Martin Herbert, Artforum, May; Nathaniel Mellors: Hateball, Modern Painters, April; Prisoners of Art, Graham Hassell, What's On in London, February; Nathaniel Mellors, Guardian Guide, February; Jane Morris and Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper, Feburary; Hateball, AN Magazine, September; Hateball, Jessica Lack, Critic's Pick, Gaurdian G2, July 2005 Nathaniel Mellors interview, Jean Wainwright, Audio Arts Magazine; Volkskrant, Amsterdam, March; Nathaniel Mellors, Cameron Irving, Untitled, Number 33 Spring; Nathaniel Mellors, Sally O’Reilly, Frieze, Jan-Feb 2004 ‘Picks of the Week’, Craig Burnett, The Guardian, 25 October; Alt Rock, The Wire, August; Nathaniel Mellors, Martin Herbert, Time Out, 13-20 October; Marcus Field, Independent on Sunday, October; ‘Critics Picks’, Emily Pethick, Artforum Online, October; The Mighty Mellors, Arena magazine, September; ‘Agenda 06_04’, Arena magazine, June; ‘The Arena O2 X Club Nominees’, Arena magazine, Feb 2003 Someplace Unreachable, Edgar Schmitz, Kunstforum p.345/6, Nov/Dec; Roadshow Catherine Wood, Art Monthly, September; Prince Lightning The Long Scratch, ‘New Releases’, Rough Trade Records, 25 August; Mellors’ Music Man Art, Fashion UK Magazine, 22 August; Bootleg, Jessica Lack, The Guardian Guide, 12-18 July; Nathaniel Mellors, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 28 June – 4 July; Prince Lightning – The Long Scratch, ‘Previews’ A-N Magazine, July; Rap Star from the Sticks, Richard Smirke, Metro, 13 Jun; Inside the Mind of a Pop Icon, Leigh Reporter, 12 June; 2002 Dan Perjovschi, Nathaniel Mellors, Tom Morton, Untitled, Autumn; Dan Perjovschi, Nathaniel Mellors, Gabriel Coxhead, Contemporary, July/August; Dan Perjovschi, Nathaniel Mellors, Morgan Falconer, ‘What’s On’, April; Dan Perjovschi, Nathaniel Mellors, Sally O’Reilly, Time Out, 1724 April 2001 London Pats Itself on the Back, Mark Harris, NY Arts, Vol.4, May; ‘London’, Dan Fox, Bujitsu Techu, May; Michael Ellis, Frieze, May; Michael Wilson, Art Monthly, April; Simon Pooley, Varsity Magazine, March; John McEwen, Sunday Telegraph, March; Nathaniel Mellors, Martin Herbert, Time Out, 14-21 March; Sinister Side, Stephen Palmer,[a-n] MAGAZINE, March; ‘Previews London’, Charlie Ayres, Art Review, Volume LIII, March; Black Gold, Simon Pooley, ‘Culture’, The Independent on Sunday, 25 February 2000 ‘Editor’s Letter’, Charlotte Mullins, Art Review, July/August; From Wit to Witlessness, Richard Dorment, Daily Telegraph, 28 June Catalogues 2000 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2000 1999 New Contemporaries ’99 Published Writing ‘Revolutions per Minute, Nathaniel Mellors on Mark Leckey’, Frieze, October Publications/Multiples 2004 Profondo Viola, booklet (free with exhibition) pub. Matt’s Gallery, Oct; SKILL 7 STAMINA 12, Robotics With Strings CD, Junior Aspirin Records, May 2003 UNICEF Contemporary Art Diary 2004, UNICEF, Dec; Anyway, comic curated Morton / Patha, pub. Alberta Press, London, April; Prince Lightning – The Long Scratch CD/LP, Edition 1000, pub. Grizedale Arts, Sept 2002 SKILL 7 STAMINA 12/Zebra Zebra, 7 inch single, Edition 500, pub. Cooper Gallery, Dundee 2001 Black Gold Guide, multiple, collaboration with Dan Fox for Matt’s Gallery
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