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Artist Statement:
You might say I am a
post-postmodernist, my art is
eclectic, I borrow from
contemporary electronic media
and from the past to create
new digital images. The images
I create I call ‘BODYSCAPES’,
that is, landscapes of the
human body and it's social
condition.
These BODYSCAPES are created
in the computer through a
process where photographic
images of the human body,
either photographed by the
artist or sourced and collaged
from the public domain, are
transformed into a simulated
landscape that is richly
varied in form and texture, in
essence a virtual 3D matrix
populated with simulated
organic forms which in part
are influenced by Bill
Brandt’s enigmatic figures in
the landscape and Man Ray’s
experiments with light and
form.
These landscapes of the body,
while synthetic, deliberately
remind the viewer of forms and
textures from the natural
world but at the same time
confound with unexpected
surrealism prompting questions
like, where is the light
coming from? Is it a body part
or a rock form?
So BODYSCAPES are about
landscapes in and of the body,
this concerns both form and
meaning encompassing social
politics as well as politics
of the body. In other words I
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Collections:
Numerous private collections
in Australia, USA, South
America, Republic of South
Africa and Europe.
National Film & Sound Archive,
Australia.
State Library of Victoria.
University of South Australia
Library.
Queensland State Library.
Library in London, UK
National Library of Australia.
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Born 1951 in Melbourne, B.App Sc. RMIT 1973, Dip Art & Design, Prahran CAE 1980, (studied sculpture under John Davis & David Wilson, photography under Athol Shmith & film with Paul Cox), Dip Ed. Charles Darwin Univerity.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - NEIL HOWE
1979-80 Performance events by The Collective at Melba Hall, Melbourne University, Latrobe University, RMIT Arts Festival, RMIT Gallery, Deakin University, Geelong,Swinburne Institute of Technology, Caulfield Institute of Technology, Caf'e Theodore, Sydney, plus five commissioned outdoor performances for the Moomba Festival, Melbourne presented in collaboration with 'Community Celebrations'.
1981 First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne.
1982 Video exhibition, Rosslyn Oxely 9 Gallery, Sydney.
1985 "Sculpture 85", group sculpture exhibition, Melbourne Exhibition Centre.
1985 Solo painting exhibition, Mills Street Gallery, Melbourne.
1986 Video exhibition, Adelaide Fringe Arts Festival, Adelaide.
1988 First Australian Video Festival, Sydney.
1989 Second Australian Video Festival, Sydney.
1989 Created live video synthesized wall for Stelarc's "Event for Video Shadow, Automatic Arm and Third Hand", Caulfield City Arts Complex, Melbourne.
1998 Sound environment and videography for "Display of the Bird King", performance by Kevin Mortensen, Lake Burley Griffon, Canberra and photo/video exhibition at Canberra School of Art Gallery.
2000 "Bodyscapes ", solo exhibition of digital images, the Photographers Gallery, Sth Yarra.
2000 Sound environment and videography of "Limnophilous Longirostral", performance by Kevin Mortensen, Noosa, Qld. Exhibition of digital images and sound installation, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Qld.
2002 "Pixxelpoint", international group exhibition of digital art, Metna Gallery, Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
2002 International group exhibition of digital art, Foundation Fita, Catalonia, Spain
2003 "Bodyscapes II", solo exhibition of digital images, the Photographers Gallery, Sth Yarra.
2003 "Bid for Freedom", group exhibition, Glen Eira City Art Gallery, Melbourne.
2004 "Postcards", group exhibition, Linden Gallery, Melbourne.
2004 "Bid for Freedom 2", group exhibition, Glen Eira City Art Gallery, Melbourne.
2004 "Memorial for the Victims of Terror", group web exhibition, New York, USA.
2004 "Diesel-New-Art", group web exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2004 Group exhibition, Kinross House Art Centre, Melbourne.
2005 “Bid for Freedom 3”, group exhibition, Glen Eira City Art Gallery, Melbourne.
2005 “Diesel New Art”, group web exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2005 ‘D-Art’, group exhibition, 9th International Conference of Information Visualization, Greenwich University, London, UK.
2005 “Bodyscapes III”, solo exhibition, Uniting Arts Toorak. Melbourne.
2005 ‘Prix Ars Electronica,’ group exhibition, Linz, Austria
2005 ‘Artists Against Sedition Laws Exhibition’, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool Regional Museum.
2006 ‘Bid For Freedom 4’, group exhibition, Glen Eira City Art Gallery, Melbourne.
2006 ‘Heartspace’, group exhibition, Adelaide Festival Gallery, Adelaide.
2006 ‘Bodyscapes 2000-2006’, solo survey exhibition, Brunswick St. Gallery, Fitzroy.
2006 ‘Thirteen – Portrait of a Teenager’, solo exhibition & book launch, Uniting Arts Toorak, Melbourne.
2006 ‘Changing Nature’, group exhibition, The Gallery in Darling Park, Sydney.
2006 Rooftop Film Festival, New York, USA
2007 ‘Techno Art’, Lapart Wallspace Gallery, Brisbane.
2007 ‘Piemonte Share Festival, group IT exhibition, Torino, Italy
2007 ‘Global Warming Show’, group exhibition, Asylum Gallery, Sacramento, USA
2007 ‘International Postcard Show,’ group exhibition, Circa Magazine, Dublin Ireland
2007 ‘Snap to the Grid’, group exhibition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA
2007 ‘Digital Fringe’, group web exhibition, Melbourne Fringe Arts Festival.
2007 Video Art Festival, group exhibition with Kevin Mortensen, City of Dandenong, Melbourne.
2008 ‘Magmart International Videoart Festival’, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy
2008 “Who Let the Dogs Out”, touring group exhibition with Kevin Mortensen, Lake Maquarie City Art Gallery, NSW, & Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2008 ‘Bid 4 Freedom’, group exhibition, Glen Eira City Art Gallery, Melbourne.
2008 ‘Weep Leviathan’, group exhibition, Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne.
2008 ‘Arte Bogota 08’, group exhibition, Esto No Es Una Galeria, Bogota, Columbia
2008 ‘Digital Media Street Festival’, group exhibition, The Gertrude Association, Melbourne.
2008 ‘FocFest’, international video art festival, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art,
NPAK/ACCEA, Yerevan, Armenia.
2008 ‘FocFest’ Freedom of Choice international film festival, Fabrica do Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal and simultaneously at Ciplak Ayaklar Studio Istanbul, Turkey.
2009 “Human Emotion Project”, international group exhibition, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne.
2009 ‘Ern Malley. The Hoax and Beyond’, group exhibition, Heide Museum of Modern Art, NGV, Melbourne.
2009 “Human Emotion Project”, international group exhibition, Garden of the Ceramic Museum (State Museum), Caldas-da-Rainha, Lisbon, Portugal.
2009 Art for Peace, international group exhibition, Dolmabrahce Art Gallery (State Gallery) Istanbul, Turkey and Fotografevi (Istanbul Photography Centre), Istanbul, Turkey.
2010 ‘HEP Poland’, international group exhibition, Parakino, CSW bath, Gdansk, Poland.
2010 ‘AusThetic’, group video art exhibition, Federation Square, Melbourne.
2010 ‘ArtFelt’, group exhibition, Northern Rivers Community Art Gallery, NSW.
2010 ‘HEP Paris’, international group exhibition, Gallerie Younique, Paris, France.
2010 “Program 45” international video art broadcast on Transfera TV, Madrid, Spain
2010 ‘Human Emotion Project Iran, international group exhibition, Mohsen Art Gallery and Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran.
2010 “Shapes of Peace”, international group exhibition, W-AFPIAAP, Peace Week, Sanski, Sarajevo, Boznia Herzegovina
2010 Nimbin Film Festival, Australia
2010 Istanbul Art Fair, Tuyap Exhibition and Congress Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
2010 MADATAC Metropolis Awards, broadcast on TV2 National Spanish TV and Spanish International Channel.
2011 Time is Love 4, international touring exhibition curated by Kisito Assangni, Centro Contemporanea d’Arte Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
2011 Time is Love 4, international touring exhibition, Hexagon Space, Baltimore, USA
Bibliography
1981 “Performance, Then & Now in Australia”.Art Network issue 3&4.
1983 “Live Art” ed Jane Kent & Anne Marsh.
1984 “Sculpture Park: A Proposal”, Australia Council for the Arts.
1993 “Body & Self” by Anne Marsh, Oxford University Press.
2004 “Rayograph”, Man Ray special edition, UQ Vanguard, March edition.
2005 Exhibition preview, Melbourne Times, Fairfax Press.
2005 Exhibition preview, Heidelberg Weekly.
2006 Exhibition preview, Melbourne Times, Fairfax Press.
2006 Exhibition preview, Heidelberg Weekly, Fairfax Press.
2006 ‘Thirteen – Portrait of a Teenager’, Neil Howe, InkLink Press.
2009 ‘Ern Malley. The Hoax and Beyond’ by David Rainey. Heide Museum of Modern Art. Melbourne.
2009 ‘Idiosynchronism’ by Nic Costa, Arteri magazine, Nov issue
Awards
1980 Powell Street Gallery Sculpture Prize.
1981 Australia Council for the Arts research grant.
1984 Australia Council for the Arts publishing grant.
2009 Janet Holmes a'Court Artist Grant, NAVA
2010 Metropolis Award, MADATAC, Madrid, Spain
Collections
Numerous private collections in Australia, USA, South America and Europe.
National Film & Sound Archive, Australia.
State Library of Victoria.
National Library of Australia.
University of South Australia Library.
Queensland State Library.
Library in London, UK
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