http://www.gudrunnielsen.co.uk/2015 Skulptur, Contemporary Sculpture, published by Hatje Cantzhttp://www.gudrunnielsen.co.uk/2015 Skulptur, Contemporary Sculpture, published by Hatje CantzPublic Art 2015-1989— Gudrun Nielsen Gudrun Nielsen www.gudrunnielsen.co.uk

2015 PUBLICATION OF SKULPTUR. Edited by Royal British Society of Sculptors. Published by Hatje Cantz ISBN 978-3-7757-4043-2 http://www.hatjecantz.de/skulptur--6549-1.html Selected pages from the catalogue below.

Contemporary Sculpture from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden

The participating artists: Nanna Abell, Jacob Dahlgren, Elmgreen & Dragset, Sigurður Guðjónsson, Marianne Hall, Timo Heino, Michael Johansson, Otto Karvonen, Tove Kjellmark, Anne Koskinen, Mariken Kramer, Maija Närhinen, Gudrun Nielsen, Laila Pullinen, Karianne Stensland, Hartmut Stockter, Jarno Vesala.

Texts: Foreword: Richard Wentworth. Curatorial overview: Claire Mander.

National Perspectives: ICE Jón Proppé, DEN Cecilie Høgsbro Østergaard, FIN Laura Köönikkä, NOR Milena Hoegsberg, SWE Ronald Jones.

Exhibitions: Royal British Society of Sculptors Galleries, London 4.2.–15.5.2015; Prince’s Gardens, Imperial College, London 4.2.–15.5.2015; Goethe-Institut, London 4.2.–15.5.2015

Formalism The title of When a Country... raises the question of when a country does fall in love with itself. Possibly when it has satisfied its narcissistic tendencies, when it formally looks how it thinks it ought, when it has its desired outward composition. The attraction of compositional and for- mal perfection is clear in the works of Jacob Dahlgren, Michael Johansson, and Gudrun Nielsen.

…….”As for Gudrun Nielsen, she harnesses Japanese minimalistic form for Labyrinth (2015), inviting the viewer to change their perspective on the sky and the relationship of space to their own bodies. Labyrinth acts as a haven within a secretive enclosed garden only one step removed from the millions of visitors passing down Exhibition Road”.

SKULPTUR: Curatorial Overview Claire Mander, selected p.73

Selected to exhibit my sculpture Labyrinth in Prince´s Gardens South Kensington London in the RBS Nordic Exhibition SKULPTUR 2015 in an open call, nearly 170 applications came from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. one of 17 selected artists, two from Iceland

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