10 Facts About Nathaniel Mellors

Nathaniel Mellors was born on December 1974, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England and is an English contemporary artist and musician.

Nathaniel Mellors studied at the University of Oxford's Ruskin Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, the Royal College of Art and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.

Nathaniel Mellors' output includes installation, sculpture, film and video, music, performance, collage, painting, prints and critical writing.

Nathaniel Mellors was represented in the Tate Trienniel 2009, Altermodern, by a work Giantbum 2009, based on a story written by him about a party of medieval explorers who lose their way in the body of a giant.

In summer 2009, Nathaniel Mellors was commissioned by the BBC to make a short "work of modern art" to introduce the final episode of the cultural history series The Seven Ages of Britain, presented by David Dimbleby and directed by Jonty Claypole.

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In September 2011, Nathaniel Mellors selected a playlist of music that inspires him in his work.

Nathaniel Mellors was nominated for the Jarman Award in 2012 and was the recipient of the Cobra Art Prize in 2011 and the Contemporary Art Society annual award in 2014.

In 2013, Nathaniel Mellors completed a residency with the Hammer Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, culminating in a 35mm short film titled The Sophisticated Neanderthal Interview.

In 2002, Nathaniel Mellors co-founded Junior Aspirin Records, a not-for-profit record label releasing music by artists in limited editions.

Nathaniel Mellors plays bass in the art-rock group Skill 7 Stamina 12 with Dan Fox, Ashley Marlowe and Maaike Schoorel, and has released music with Toilet, God in Hackney, Mysterius Horse and under his own name.