NEIL EVANS

 

 

 

Born 1 February 1951, Sydney

 

 

 

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

 

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

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

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

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

1991        Fragments  Legge Gallery

1992        Words – recent rhopography  Legge Gallery

1994        Torus  Legge Gallery

1995        Pretty Ugly  Legge Gallery

1997        Dark Victory  Legge Gallery

1999        The Killer  Legge Gallery

2000        Suite Memories  Legge Gallery

2002        Evans Head  Legge Gallery

2003        Mnemonic Landscapes Legge Gallery

2004        Modest Axillism Legge Gallery

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

1989        Inside the Greenhouse  Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney

1990        Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair  Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne (DC Art)

1991        When Love Blooms  Legge Gallery

1992        Works from Stock and Studio  Legge Gallery

                Thisness  Legge Gallery

1993        Tempest  Legge Gallery

1994        Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair  Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne (Legge Gallery)

                Artists Don’t Believe in Sanity Clause  Legge Gallery

1995        Packsaddle  New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale

                Salon des refuses  S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

                Summer Exhibition  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

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

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

1999        Evolution  Legge Gallery

Packsaddle  New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale

                Redlands Westpac Art Prize  Sydney

10th Summer Exhibition  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

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

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

2003        Robert Cleworth and Neil Evans Dark Places Legge Gallery

                Summer Show Legge Gallery

2004        Melbourne Art Fair 2004 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

                Packsaddle New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale

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

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

 

 

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