NEIL EVANS
Born in 1951, Sydney
Biography
1969 Studied at National Art School, Sydney
Assistant to sculptor Gerard Havekes
Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, New South Wales. On Christo Javacheff’s
work team
1992 painting commissioned by Angus & Robertson for cover of Up
On All Fours by Philip Hodgins
Conceptual Art
1972
Retirement Announced – Mail Art
Corner of George and Market Streets, Sydney
Group City Walk Architecture Faculty, University of Sydney
Vomit Architecture Faculty, University of Sydney
1971
John Kaldor Art Project 2: Harald Szeeman in Australia Bonython Art
Gallery, Sydney and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Four Day Dress Plan CAS Gallery, Sydney
Activities: Performance, Participation and Art by Instruction Inhibodress,
Sydney
The Situation Now CAS Gallery, Sydney
Young Contemporaries CAS Gallery, Sydney
Illegal Road Closure Rowe Street, Sydney
33rd Annual CAS Exhibition CAS Gallery, Sydney
1970
Sunbathing with Savart Watters Gallery
32nd Annual Contemporary Art Society Exhibition Farmer’s Blaxland
Gallery, Sydney
12 Artists: new directions recent work Central Street, Sydney
Savart Happening Capitol Theatre, Sydney
The Organic Account of Neil Evans, April 1970
Ten Trees Brithy Inlet NSW
Solo Exhibitions
2004
Modest Axillism Legge Gallery
2003
Mnemonic Landscapes Legge Gallery
2002
Evans Head Legge Gallery
2000
Suite Memories Legge Gallery
1999
The Killer Legge Gallery
1997
Dark Victory Legge Gallery
1995
Pretty Ugly Legge Gallery
1994
Torus Legge Gallery
1992
Words – recent rhopography Legge Gallery
1991
Fragments Legge Gallery
Group Exhibitions
2006
Who cares? Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
Tom Roberts Retraced Inverell Art Gallery Inverell
Landscape Show Legge Gallery
The Inaugural Loquat Valley Art Prize Bayiew
Melbourne Art Fair 2006 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2005
Best In Show - Third Annual Dog Show A-Space on Cleveland, Sydney
Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Redlands Westpac Art Prize Mosman Art Gallery
Summer Show Legge Gallery
2004
Melbourne Art Fair 2004 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
2003
Robert Cleworth and Neil Evans Dark Places Legge Gallery
Summer Show Legge Gallery
2002
The Archibald Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Goulburn Regional
Art Gallery,
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Hazelhurst Regional
Gallery and Arts Centre
and Victorian Arts Centre's George Adams Gallery
Art in Food National Trust Cafe, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2002 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne (Legge
Gallery)
Sophia Mundi Annual Art Exhibition Melbourne
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Legge Gallery Summer Show Legge Gallery
2001
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Salon des refuses S.H. Ervin Gallery
Neil Evans and Peter Liiri: Still Lifes Legge Gallery
Legge Gallery Artists Use Atelier Artists' Acrylics Legge Gallery
2000
Sulman Art Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales
Project 2/2000 The Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Happy 10th Birthday Group Show Legge Gallery
Seventh Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building,
Melbourne (Legge Gallery)
Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
1999
Evolution Legge Gallery
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Redlands Westpac Art Prize Sydney
10th Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
1998
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Salon des refuses S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Amnesty International Peoples Choice Award T.A.P. Gallery, Sydney
Neil Evans, Vivienne Ferguson, Julienne Harris, Evan Salmon Legge Gallery
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
(Legge Gallery)
Christmas Show Legge Gallery
1997
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Salon des refuses S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Redlands Westpac Art Prize Sydney
The King’s School Art Prize Sydney
Sanguine Valediction Legge Gallery
1996
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Salon des refuses S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
(Legge Gallery)
Mellow Down Easy Legge Gallery
1995
Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
Salon des refuses S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Summer Exhibition Legge Gallery
1994
Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
(Legge Gallery)
Artists Don’t Believe in Sanity Clause Legge Gallery
1993
Tempest Legge Gallery
1992
Works from Stock and Studio Legge Gallery
Thisness Legge Gallery
1991
When Love Blooms Legge Gallery
1990
Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
(DC Art)
1989
Inside the Greenhouse Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Macquarie Bank
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
New England Regional Art Museum
Private Collections in Australia, Canada, London and New York
Selected Bibliography
Auty, Giles: The Weekend Australian, 25-26/3/2000
Bettini, Jo: The Sydney Morning Herald, 8/9/1995
Black, Ann: Artlink, vol.14 no.2, 1998
Black, Ann: Australian Art Review, issue 02, July-October 2003
Boles, Bernard: Nation Review, 3/9/1971
Bond, Anthony: Body, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997
Brook, Donald: Sun Herald, 29/9/1970
Brook, Donald: The Sydney Morning Herald, 13/5/1971
Brook, Donald: The Sydney Morning Herald, 27/4/1972
Brook, Donald: Studio International, April 1972
Brook, Donald: Nation Review, April 1972
Brook, Donald: Artlink, vol.14 no.3, 1998
Cramer, Sue: Inhibodress 1970-1972, 1989
Cubby, Ben: The Sydney Morning Herald, 02/11/2004
Curnow, Wystan: Imants Tillers and the ‘Book of Power’,
1998
Downer, Stella: Introduction Redlands Westpac Art Prize Catalogue, 2005
Expo is Evans sent: Wentworth Courier, 4/11/2004
Foster, Ernest: A Public of Individuals, vol.1 no.1, Jul/Aug 2002
Gesta Non Verba ,issue 2, 22/6/2005
Gleeson, James: Sun Herald, 15/2/1970
Gleeson, James: Sun Herald, 9/5/1971
Green, Charles: Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-1994,
1995
Guinness, Daphne: The Sydney Morning Herald, 20/5/2002
Howe, Neil: Live Art, 1984
Hutchison, B.A.: Nation Review, 11/12/1971
James, Bruce and Tillers, Imants: Judges' Speech, Redlands Westpac Art
Prize, 13/6/1997
Johnson, Tim: An Impossible Vision, On the Beach, no.9, 1985
Kennedy, Peter: Art Network 6, Winter, 1982
Looby, Keith: Letter to the Artmaster No.IV , 1988
Looby, Keith: Australian Art Review, issue 02, July-October 2003
Low, Lenny Ann : The Sydney Morning Herald, 1-2/11/2003
Lynn, Elwyn: The Bulletin, 21/2/1970
Marsh, Anne: Art & Australia, vol.26 no.3, 1989
Marsh, Anne: Body and Self: performance art in Australia 1969-1992,
1993
McDonald, John: The Sydney Morning Herald, 29/3/1997
Milliss, Ian: Contemporary Art Society Broadsheet, July/August 1970
Molitorisz, Sacha: The Sydney Morning Herald, 8/8/2001
Moses, Alexa: The Sydney Morning Herald, 20/9/2003
Pearlman, Jonathan: Spotlight, The Sydney Morning Herald, 28/8/2002
Smith, Terry: Sun Herald, 5/5/1971
Smith, Terry: The Review, 18-24/12/1971
Smith, Terry: The Situation Now: Object or Post-Object Art?, catalogue
interview, 16/7/1971
Smith, Terry: Anything Goes – Art in Australia 1970-1980, 1984
Sturgeon, Graeme: The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788-1975,
1978
Thomas, Daniel: Sun Herald, 8/2/1970
Thomas, Daniel: Sun Herald, 9/4/1971
Thomas, Daniel: Sunday Telegraph, 7/11/1971
Thomas, Daniel: Sunday Telegraph, 30/4/1972
Thomas, Laurie: The Australian, 11/9/1971
Tomas, Juan-Carlo: The Sydney Morning Herald, 4-10/10/2002
Vickers, Nick: Sydney City Hub, 1-7/6/2000
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