Nick Breedon’s practice incorporates iconography from popular culture, niche queer cultural artefacts and art history, in materials and techniques loaned from the canon of classical sculpture and traditional craft. Breedon’s work explores the interplay of identarianism and visual internet culture under late-stage capitalism.
Nick is currently undertaking an MFA at University of New South Wales Art and Design and has exhibited in numerous solo and group gallery and institutional exhibitions, along with various public art projects.
Exhibitions include Bongs and Commodores, Alaska Projects – Sydney; A Lot of Luck, Bus Projects – Melbourne; Feelings, Firstdraft – Sydney and West Space – Melbourne; Sierpinski Mountain, TCB art Inc. – Melbourne; public art projects Monument to the People and Monotone Rainbow, Testing Grounds – Melbourne; Let’s Get Metaphysical – Splendour in the Grass Festival Arts Program; group exhibitions I Will Tell You My Story, UTS Gallery – Sydney; Onside, Casula Powerhouse – Sydney; Big Numbers, 55 Sydenham Road, Marrickville – Sydney; On Hubris, Irony and Schadenfreude, Lon Gallery – Melbourne; Off Grid, Blindside – Melbourne; and Full Court Press, Artereal Gallery – Sydney. Breedon has been a finalist in the Wyndham Art Prize, Blake Prize, Darebin Art Prize, Kate Derum & Irene Davies Awards for Small Tapestries, and Wangaratta Contemporary Textiles Prize. Breedon’s work is featured in the collections of Artbank, City of Melbourne; and various private collections. Nick is co-host and co-creator of arts industry podcast Pro Prac.
