Stephen Nelson is an artist who divides his time between London and Italy. He has exhibited at many galleries internationally, including the Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea gallery in Palermo, and he has been selected for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy.

While Stephen was the Arts Council of England Helen Chadwick Fellow in Sculpture, he spent time at the British School in Rome. Stephen is also part-time curator of Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Cogliandrino in Basilicata, Italy a not-for-profit artist-run space. Stephen has taught throughout France, Italy and Mexico but his speciality is southern Italy ‘the Mezzogiorno’, and he now focuses on Basilicata, Campania, Puglia and Sicily.