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Artist Statement -



art basel 2012



perhaps you are wondering who or what i sound like... well this is a link to some radio which we done a couple or weeks ago here in wales uk......
http://www.culturecolony.com/videos?id=6967

these art chats have fortunately been archived... so catch up on the arts scene where dylan thomas richard burton anthony hopkins zeta jones charollet church plus all the rest..

may 2006
its been a very busy time.. recently, well last year got back into film and then combined this media with the painting to produce animation.. the results have been quite successful... hopefully these results will be seen in cardiff/wales in the near future... the venice bienalle will be coming around again for some very fortunate artists in wales... my idea of paintings and mirrors will hopefully see the light of day as something more than a marquet at an international venue.....

may 2005
brand new website detailing all that new info, exhibition details and just how do you get out those stubben stains...

oct 2004...
during the last months we have been opening the studio here in south wales uk... it will hopefully give the opportunity to people to view and see contemporary art in construction... by doing this i hope we can start to create the new audience in wales that we need here to make these large art projects survive...

last
have i got anything to say, is that what art is? somebody saying something.. well no i hear you say, art isn't just about talking its about producing the object of imagination.. well if that is the case then why do so many people who show work support the show with an intelectual crutch that explains what the person intended as a thought behind the work.. arhh.. i have sort of helped them out here by saying it in this clear way, but i would add why is it important to contribute a reason for the work and not let the viewer come to their own conclusion.. this case of art being changed into a representation of illustration seems to me to be more about a curator finding a reason to exist than about the art on show.. if we follow this subjective idea back through time i believe we will come to the point when duchamp exhibited a pound of butter stabled between two pieces of quarter inch steel and the sports correspondant at the time was told to write about art for their newspaper...
what the fuk do i know though, eh! well i'll tell you what i have found out and that this is a world where the bad get all the attention, where having your name on a pair of socks is considered success and that the majority of wales/uk could give a ants arse about art and thats not sad that just how it is... people can get involved in art and the intellectual approach doesn't need to be required... i had to find my own questions to get me into understanding art and i readly give these as examples when talking and writting about the work.. ask simple questions about what you are looking at, is this artist left or right handed? is it a man or a women? these simple questions let you think and look for the clues into the work... art can be entertaining and once in you'll begin to see it everywhere...

Artist Exhibitions



Exhibition Press Release

Neale Howells
—American Mama Gun Run


Part 1, John Martin Gallery London 3 – 25 Feb 2012

Part 2, Edward Cutler Gallery Milan 9 Feb – 4 Mar 2012





John Martin Gallery, London and Edward Cutler, Milan are delighted to present the first major show of Welsh artist Neale Howells for nearly four years. The exhibition is divided into two parts taking place in Milan and London during February with works also being previewed at Arte Fiera Bologna at the end of January. The private view in London will be on Thursday 3 February 6 – 8pm and the private in Milan will take place on Thursday 9 February, 6-9pm.



Howells’s paintings absorb the seemingly relentless stream of information which crowd our daily lives sourced from television, radio, the internet and print media. Words, phrases and images are harvested, almost arbitrarily and repositioned on found panels and pieces of wood: tiny details and passages of text which are continually developed, obliterated and enlarged.

“... the smallest part becomes the most important. You have to believe in the work through every part of it so it's identity runs through every line like DNA”.

His obsessive, time-consuming process of painting is coupled with a desire to overwhelm and give the viewer a near-cinematic experience through scale, achieved in such monumental works as Captain America vs The Rest of the Worldwhich spans nearly five metres in length.



The starting point for much of Howells’s work is the graphic language of 1950's Americana, filtered through elements of abstract expressionism, street art, graffiti and pop art. However the intense re-working and continual process of creation and obliteration negates the intentional anachronisms of his work. He is obliterating the chronology of art history in the same way he erases the texts of which the paintings are composed. Indeed, the finished works often suggest that the artist is searching back further to find an older classical painting standard, finding the rhythms of harmony in the order and placement of colours, images and words.



Please contact the gallery for further information, catalogue and images.info@jmlondon.com



John Martin Gallery
38 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4JG
020 7499 1314
www.jmlondon.com



Edward Cutler Gallery
Via Dell'Orso 12, Primo Cortile, 20121 Milano, Italia
+39 02 39 831 032 gallery@edwardcutler.com
www.edwardcutler.com


above: Neale Howells - Captain America vs The Rest of the World DETAIL (2011), acrylic, oil, pastel and pencil on wood 175 x 490 cms
below: Neale Howells - Mama with a Gun (2011), acrylic, oil, pastel and pencil on wood 238 x 300 cms







Arte Fiera Bologna, 27-30 January

studio unit21
addison road
port talbot
south wales.
www.artistnealehowells.webs.com



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exhibitions solo

1996 "the Wall", neath museum, neath.

1997 "Berlin works" swansea arts workshop, swansea.

1997 works 94-95, pontardawe arts centre, pontardawe.

1998 recent work, washington gallery,penarth, s.wales.

1998 "croeso i cymru, **** ", oriel 31 newtown mid wales. cancelled.

1998 liverpool film festival.

1999 contact gallery, norwich. cancelled.

1999 washington gallery penarth, s.wales.

2000 tabernacle machynlleth.

2000 washington gallery penarth wales.

2001 studio voltaire gallery clapham london may.

2001 ormeau baths gallery belfast june/july.

2001 sept washington gallery penarth.

2002 millennium plaza cardiff march/april.

2002 nov washington gallery, penarth, s.wales.

2003 June phoenix gallery brighton..

2004 may/june washington gallery penarth south wales..

2005 march john martin gallery Chelsea London.

2007 GAREJ pontcanna Cardiff june 29 - july 14..

2008 mission gallery Swansea…

2008 23 april - 10 may john martin gallery london.... animation and sound LCD big

2009 july / august screens swansea /cardiff city centres .

2010 big screens jan/feb/march swansea,cardiff.

2012 john martin gallery london

2012 edward cutler gallery milan italy

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Artist Publications



art reviews

1996 rubbish art, south wales evening post, jan 20th. 1996 feb,8th p14, unorthodox art, pauline mclean, western mail.

1997 finetime, suzzanne glaser. 1997 July, bbc wales, jane o’brien. lsh icon,11th feb, p13. 1998 neale’s world, south wales evening post, 25th June. 1998 painting is dead?.

- western mail, 13th jan. 1998 art news, penarth times, jan 9th. 1998 freakish, repellent, macabre,but is it art?,

western mail, 6th aug,p10. 1998 controversy, western mail 11th aug,p2. 1998 bums brush, news of the world, 16th aug,

p11. 1998 "end of the week show", huwland productions, LWT, 28th August. 1998 "fresh" htv transmission 3rd October.

1998 rude word is gallery show stopper!, western mail,11th nov,p8. 1999 "infame! infame!" big issue April 5th-11th p40.

1999 "started to mellow" western mail 20th April,p12. 2000 interview bbc digital wales transmission march 2000.

2000 interview HTV wales high performance 27th April 2000. 2000 article bigissue 3rd-9th July.

2000 western mail 17th July all his own work ith help from son....2000 mirror (wales) 25th July p15 finger lookin good...

..2001 art review "manic street painter" P10. 2001 high performance HTV wales manics billboard cardiff 19th march.

2001 CNN week outlook 12th-19th march manics. 2001 bbc wales radio drive time 4-5pm 8th march lisa mathews.

2001 "Q" online article manics 6th march. 2001 south wales echo 17th march "he’s got it covered"

2001 south wales echo 25th march "artist in trouble over obscene painting" 2001 south wales evening post march 12th

"new hit" p2. 2001 western mail 24th march art work succeeds in shocking public" p3 2001 NME 31st march manics new

art riot offensive" p4. 2001 "Q" magazine may "a design for strife" p20. 2001 neath guardian April 12th

"causing a stir" p18. 2001 this way up htv wales 28th may. 2001 25th sept htv wales ‘here, now’ documentary

scheduled 25th September. 2001 12th western mail p13 ‘focus on artists work’. 2001 ‘one wales magazine top ten’

issue 2 oct/nov 2001 ‘dec ‘planet’ the naming of things’ p.71 2002 ‘cardiff galleries welcome new artists’ western mail

28th feburary. 2002 prize goes to film on manics and bad boy howells’ 22nd western mail. 2002 ‘celtic cousins

honour manics film’ 23rd march western mail. 2002 ‘exhibition offers ffresh look at welsh art’ 23rd march western mail.

2002 artist likes to be given a hand’ 2nd April western mail. 2002 4th - 10th November big issue ’ interview’

2002 30th dec western mail ‘ artist brands nation visually ilerate’..2003 artbrings light to dark areas’ evening post

8th may p2. 2003 radio 4 ‘today’ interview by rebecca jones 11th June . 2003 11th june‘wales today’ bbc1 6.30pm 2003

western mail ‘minister of ignorance and ‘artist hits at welsh choice for international bienalle’ 12th June.

2003 ‘evening post ‘artist hits out’ 14th June. 2003 ‘on show’ bbc1 transmission 22nd June. 2003 evening post

‘artist hits out’ 14th Saturday p8. 2003 ‘onshow’ bbc1 29th June artist studio.2003 August tasci/ eisteddfod/big issue..

2003 nov ‘one wales’ p45 museum of contemporary art wales...2003 westernmail 28th nov... 2004 march ‘buzz’ magazine unit21

2004 ‘bandit’ s4c digital 10pm 8th April ...2004 ‘in search of originality’ evening post 26th march...

2004 lexmark prize wales 11th may ..2004 artspeaks for itself south wales evening post June 4th ..2004 9th 0ct

western mail’ come and have a go if you think you art enough’ 2004 nov bbc radio five live bannister 2005 september

death hoax evening post… 2006 april/may ‘one wales’ interview about artes mundi..2007 buzz mag august ‘garej’ ..

2008 westernmail 11 january (in the frame)... 2008 local guardian post....2008 18 febuary s4c 3pm wedi 3...

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Artist Collections



Numerous private, corporate, museum, gallery and government collections detailed information coming soon.

Artist Favorites



Personal Favorites



http://www.artistnealehowells.webs.com neale howells older website
homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_1x.html
homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_1x.html
http://older website with various other info.. not used now but perhaps still worth a look. Posted June 16, 2011 at 10:48 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_2x.html
http://older information Posted June 16, 2011 at 10:49 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_3x.html
http://skool report Posted June 16, 2011 at 10:51 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_5x.html
http://various reviews and articles i was asked to do.. dont get asked to do them these days mind. Posted June 16, 2011 at 10:57 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_7x.html
http://some images of older work.. just had a look and one of them bottomless popes has been used to hang in th foyer of st davids hall cardiff for cardiff singer of the year.. thanks ruth. Posted June 16, 2011 at 10:59 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_8x.html
http://old posters for shows.. Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:04 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_9x.html
http://installations Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:06 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_11x.html
http://naked artist Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:13 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_12x.html
http://malaga 2004 Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:15 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_13x.html
http://big issue interview way back in 2002 when i was popular. Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:16 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_14x.html
http://a selection of observational essays written a few years ago... although some still resinate today.. Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:18 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_25x.html
http://architecture... my idea for the use of baglan chemical works port talbot... more of south wales industrial hertiage that has disappeared for our enviroment.. ok some people will say great but in a hundred years time there will no doubt be goverment grants thrown at the cause to ressurect the cause... Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:22 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_26x.html
http://catolgues and flyers for previous shows... also the infamous catolgue that got the show at oriel31 newtown banned by its director amanda farr because of the offensive word used in its promotion. naughty man Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:32 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_28x.html
http://inside the studio.. Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:35 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_29x.html
http://always been an artist you see and heres the proof.. drawing from 1973. Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:36 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_30x.html
http://worked with rachel trezise novelist on a chapter about welsh artists... what a great person and writer who went off to win britians got talent..of course she didnt but did do well to win dylan thomas prize and become a major force in the literacy welsh dept here in wales... i like to think it started here for the girl. Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:44 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_32x.html
http://my town article Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:45 AM homepage.ntlworld.com/r.williams16/UNTITLED/Page_37x.html
http://artes mundi 2006 here i get the chance to give my opinion on the exhibition.. Posted June 16, 2011 at 11:49 AM www.artshub.co.uk/uk/news-article/news/visual-arts/proust-pin-up-neale-howells-171674
http://interview arts proust 2008 Posted June 17, 2011 at 3:00 PM
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