Nick Breedon
Bio
Nick Breedon's sculptural practice weaves references from lived experience, pop culture, and art history into recursive narratives about intimacy, desire and alienation under late stage capitalism. Breedon incorporates a vast array of material processes and making techniques from craft, the western canon of sculpture; painting, textiles and video to make ritual-like objects which incorporate dark humour and extreme attention to detail.
Breedon’s career includes solo exhibitions 'Public Art' (2023) at Firstdraft, (Syd); ‘Feelings’ (2014), exhibited at West Space (Melb) and Firstdraft (Syd); ‘Bongs and Commodores’, Alaska Projects (Syd); ‘A Lot of Luck’, Bus Projects (Melb); and ‘Sierpinski Mountain’, TCB (Melb). Other highlights include large scale public realm works Let’s Get Metaphysical for Splendour in the Grass Festival in 2012, and large scale holographic artwork ‘Monotone Rainbow’ at Testing Grounds (Melb)
Nick is co-creator and co-host of the podcast Pro Prac in conjunction with artist Kiera Brew Kurec. Pro Prac is an interview style podcast speaking with artists about how they create a sustainable arts practice. Conceived as the talk behind the artist talk, the podcast covers under-represented subjects and facets within the arts including finances, mental health, sustainability, social expectations, privilege, productivity, acceptance and belonging. In its inaugural year, Pro Prac has garnered over 5000 unique listens and has been invited to speak at ACCA, RMIT and VCA Secondary School
Nick’s work has been shortlisted for a number of prizes and awards including the 64th Blake Prize for neon work Let’s Get Metaphysical II, the 2015 Darebin Art Prize and the 2015 Wangaratta Contemporary Textiles Prize, and features in the collections of Artbank and City of Melbourne.