About

Born Manchester, 1995. Lives and works in London.

Nathan Caldecott is a sculptor and digital artist, drawing from interests in architecture, finance and musical culture. His work focuses on the structure, value, and statehood of digital and physical spaces, with a particular interest in network theories and digital models.

Nathan’s work condenses into an opaque language borne of minimalism and the early internet, forming sculptural and painterly diagrams made from implausibly simple and repeated forms. Nathan seeks to take on the simple construction of digital networks, while highlighting a totalised detachment they have from us in their complexity and scale. Notions of value, movement and physical stability are transformed into vectors that consume the presentation of these forms, each enforcing parallel structures of implausability and potential untruth.

A disconnect in legibility is important to Nathan’s work, with simple arrangements representing complex diagrams loaded with immaterial luxury objects like diamond dust. Nathan is keen to create a dialogue about the roles that digital models and networks have to play as structural units, and the speculative roles they could play as containers of value.

Education

2014-2017   BFA, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford

2013-2014   Foundation Diploma, Manchester School of Art

Exhibitions & Residencies 

2022

Gain Ctrl w/ SODAA & Threads Radio - Old Baths Hackney Wick, London
Home </body> w/ Public Access Memories - The Wrong Biennale

2021

Metastudio - Digital Artist Residency

2020

MK Calling - MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
2020 Series [solo] - Online

2018

Broomhill National Sculpture Prize - Barnstaple, Devon

Studio Nathan Caldecott - The Sketchup Residency
Threads - Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
Ohwell? - Old Police Station, New Cross, London

2017

Render Stations (solo) - Modern Art Oxford, Oxford

2017 Degree Show - Ruskin School of Art, Bullingdon Road, Oxford
Ruskin Summer Show - High Street, Oxford

2016    

Together Art Prize - Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport
Somewhereto_ - Brierfield Library, Nelson

Rothko Chapel - Music House, St. Catherine's College, Oxford
Screen - Apiary, St. Catherine's College, Oxford
PoMo Summer - Project Space, Bullingdon Road, Oxford
Dolphiennale - Dolphin Gallery, St. John's College, Oxford
Axis (solo) - Project Space, Bullingdon Road, Oxford

2015

And/Order - Krakk Gallery, Manchester
LCMF ii - Krakk Gallery, Manchester

RGBK - El Refri Web Gallery, Glasgow

Ruskin Launch - Project Space, Bullingdon Road, Oxford
Private View - First Year Ruskin Show, High Street, Oxford
Blue - St. Peter's College, Oxford
Catz Arts Festival - St. Catherine's College, Oxford
1 24 25 (solo) - Project Space, The Green Shed, Oxford

2014

Endless City - Princess Street, Manchester
Alwaysallwaysland - Foundation Degree Show, MMU, Manchester
Inserts + Interludes - Benzie Building, MMU, Manchester

2013

175 - Link Gallery, MMU, Manchester
Origins - Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester
Creative Futures - Ashton Sixth Form College, Tameside

Essays & Writing

Prizes

2018
Broomhill National Sculpture Prize - Finalist
Aesthetica Art Prize - Longlisted

2017
CVAN SE Platform Award - Shortlisted
SPA Best Magazine Design (for the ISIS) - Shortlisted

2016
Dunn School of Pathology Commission - Runner-up
Foci Essay Prize - Shortlisted

2015 
Jerrold Holdings Art Prize - Runner-up

Press, Interviews & Talks