Su Nelson (she/human) is a Canadian-born visual artist based in Aotearoa. Her sculptural art practice celebrates the unique properties, scars, and voices of scrappy remnants and diverse-but-interrelated material mash-ups. Including concepts of non-autonomous sovereignty and the necessary tensions inherent in unity that echo the divine feminine and matriarchal “generatrix” qualities of Mater (Latin term for both matter and Source). Her work is an evergreen process of relating, rescuing, questioning, re-membering, re-cognising, and transforming that explores the ongoingness of preservation and renewal, often capturing particular aspects of a space or context into sculptural form.

Nelson recently completed her Master’s in Visual Arts at AUT with previous arts training at The Vancouver Academy of Art, The Otago Polytechnic School of Art (Dunedin), a Master’s in Arts Management at Whitecliffe College of Art & Design (Auckland), and Postgraduate Diploma at Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts.