Neil Roberts

Selected Exhibitions And Projects:

Public Art Projects

  • 2002 Sept The Gift (completed by Barbara Campbell), St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Bligh Voller Nield (commissioning architects)
  • 2002 Render to all their dues ANU Public Art Program, Canberra
  • 2001 Still Light Temporary works for ACT Public Art Program (curated by Jane Barney)
  • 1999 Ruach (with David Wright) Cabrini Hospital, Melbourne
  • 1998 House Proud Playhouse Theatre, Canberra
  • 1997 The Fourth Pillar ACT Magistrates Court, Canberra
  • 1994 Terang (Victoria) Gateway project - design consultation
  • 1992 Transmission Tower (Render to all their dues) Temporary public installation for Adelaide Festival
  • 1990 Flood Plane temporary public installation commissioned by Floriade Spring Festival, Canberra
  • 1987 Trine Gorman House Arts Centre, Canberra
  • 1987 Untitled Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra
  • 1984 Interface: Art & Technology Adelaide Festival exhibition

Individual and Collaborative Projects

  • 2003 Nov Love's Labours Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra (selected by Barbara Campbell)
  • 2002 Nov Light Touch, Hard Blow Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra (selected by Barbara Campbell)
  • 2001 June The Collected Works of Neil Roberts Canberra School of Art Gallery (curated by Merryn Gates)
  • 2000 June Half Ether Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
  • 2000 May Again & Again (with Kimmo Vennonen), Canberra Contemporary Art Space2000 March Dew Mixed with Sweat Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
  • 1998 July BA na na BA na na MAN go Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland
  • 1998 July Bruising Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
  • 1996 July Tiny Idols Heaped in Piles Canberra Contemporary Art Space
  • 1996 Feb balls Kunst, Sydney
  • 1994 June Kunst, Sydney
  • 1994 March The Great Ultimates and other works Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
  • 1993 June The Plait, the Tatt and Baudelaire’s Rope Art Museum, University of South Australia, Adelaide
  • 1993 Feb Feeding the Chooks (with Stephen Paul Day) Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan
  • 1991 Aug Addressing the Wounds installation at ART-LAB, Manila, The Philippines
  • 1991 Mar The Forces of Democracy window installation, Peekaboo, Perth,
  • 1990 Dec Hunger and Thirst (with Tess Horwitz) Artstop Window, Canberra
  • 1989 July Grand and Bowery, Part II Camera Lucida, Sydney
  • 1989 June Grand and Bowery Canberra Contemporary Art Space (Gallery3)
  • 1988 Nov Can You Read The Clouds (with eX de Medici) Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan
  • 1987 Jan Transit of Shadows Canberra Contemporary Art Space
  • 1984 Oct Knives and Shadows Arts Council Gallery, Canberra
  • 1977 Nov Photographs Fremantle Arts Centre Gallery, WA

Group Exhibitions and Projects

  • 2003 Sept Fair Game: art + sport NGV Response Gallery, Melbourne (curated by Anonda Bell)
  • 2001 Dec Transparent Things: Expressions in Glass NGA Touring Exhibition in collaboration with Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
  • 2001 Dec Glow: Body of Light Object GAlleries, Sydney (curated by Rhana Devenport)
  • 2001 Nov National Sculpture Prize National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  • 2001 April The Copy Room Foyer Gallery, Canberra School of Art (Multiple Constantinoples editions for Australian Print Symposium)
  • 2001 March low-down Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2000 July Uncommon World National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  • 2000 May Plastic by Nature 24Hr Art, Darwin2000 April Triptych Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
  • 1999 Dec Something for above the Couch Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
  • 1998 July Graphic Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
  • 1998 May Verve S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
  • 1997 Sept Multiplication: the multiple object in art Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
  • 1997 June Winter Light aGOG, Canberra
  • 1997 May Exquisite Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
  • 1997 March Kunst Unlimited Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
  • 1997 March 6th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition University of Hawaii Gallery
  • 1997 Feb Cabinet of Curiosities Academy of Science, Canberra
  • 1997 Jan Fever Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
  • 1996 May Breaching the Divide Goulburn Regional Gallery
  • 1995 Dec Multiple Constantinoples Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan
  • 1995 Nov Osaka Triennale (Sculpture) Osaka, Japan
  • 1995 March Drawing Room Kunst, Sydney
  • 1994 May Aussembledge Auckland City Gallery, New Zealand
  • 1994 June Symmetry National touring exhibition, curated by Kevin Murray
  • 1994 July Romantisystem Canberra Contemporary Art Space
  • 1994 Oct Celebrate Jam Factory 21st Birthday exhibition, Adelaide
  • 1993 Oct 21600 each 24 hrs Canberra Travelodge Hotel
  • 1993 Sept Decor Canberra House Arcade
  • 1993 Sept 10 Guineas and Under Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
  • 1993 Sept Parcel Post Show Room 4, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
  • 1992 April 3D 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
  • 1992 April From a Distance installation as part of ARX 3, Perth
  • 1992 July F.A.C.T.: An Installation Publication National touring exhibition
  • 1992 Nov Coals to Newcastle: Xerox Art by Five Australian Artists Australia Centre, Manila, the Philippines (Exhibition Coordinator and contributor)
  • 1992 Nov C.D. Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
  • 1991 Aug The Intramuros Conspiracy Galeria de las Islas, Manila, The Philippines
  • 1991 Nov 10 Guineas and Under Blackland Gallery, Sydney
  • 1991 Aug Sydney Printmakers Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
  • 1991 Aug Artruption Cultural Centre of the Philippines
  • 1991 Jan Challenging the Medium Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
  • 1990 Sept 4th Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
  • 1990 Aug Instant Polaroid exhibition, First Draft (West), Sydney
  • 1990 July Canbrart Drill Hall, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
  • 1990 June The Arsonists Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan
  • 1990 Dec Once in a Blue Moon Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan
  • 1989 Oct Tenderly/Gently neon installations as part of ARX '89 (METRO MANIA), Perth
  • 1989 May Uncommon Objects Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada
  • 1988 Sept 4th National Glass Biennale, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
  • 1988 Aug Home Domestic neon prototype, manufactured by Barnes Neon, Queensland, for "Design for Australian Living" exhibition, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
  • 1988 Apr-May Says Who! Camera Lucida, Sydney. Participant in, and coordinator of a series of thematic exhibitions
  • 1988 April Australian Crafts Exhibition,
  • 1988, Meatmarket Craft Centre, Melbourne
  • 1988 March A Persistent Vision Museum of S.A. precinct, Adelaide Festival
  • 1987 Sept Collaborator Installation at ARX '87, Perth, W.A.
  • 1987 July Site Specific City (with eX de Medici) Canberra Contemporary Art Space
  • 1987 June Makers Choice Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide, S.A.
  • 1987 June Scanned Image and The Word Arts Council Gallery, Canberra
  • 1987 June Saloncoda Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra
  • 1987 June Nowhere Utopia THAT Space, Brisbane
  • 1987 June Fake One Kelly St. Kollective Gallery, Sydney
  • 1986 Oct Vessage First Draft Gallery, Sydney (devised and coordinated with eX de Medici)
  • 1986 Feb Glass in a Dark Space Queensland Art Gallery
  • 1985 May Eight an installation as part of ANZART/AUCKLAND '85
  • 1985 May 3rd National Glass Biennale, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
  • 1985 Feb Artworks Glass Crafts Council Gallery, Sydney
  • 1985 Jan Sculpture '85 World Trade Centre, Melbourne
  • 1985 Jan Display Homes Exhibition, Canberra
  • 1983 May 2nd National Glass Biennale, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
  • 1983 May Third Rail Series Canberra School of Art Gallery (Staff Exhibition)
  • 1982 Feb Elements of Change Crafts Council Gallery, Sydney
  • 1981 National Glass Exhibition, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

Collections:

Works held in public collections include:

  • ACT Legislative Assembly
  • Artbank Collection
  • Australian National University, Canberra
  • Canberra Museum and Gallery
  • Contemporary Art and Culture Centre, Osaka, Japan
  • Monash University Collection
  • National Gallery of Australia
  • National Gallery of Victoria
  • National Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
  • Queensland Art Gallery
  • Victorian Ministry for the Arts

Grants And Awards:

  • 2000 Capital Arts Patrons Organisation Fellowship, Canberra
  • 1998 Australia Council VACF grant: New Work
  • 1995 Daikin Industries Prize, Osaka Triennial (Sculpture), Japan
  • 1995 Inaugural ArtsACT Creative Arts Fellowship (Visual Arts)
  • 1992 Bronze Award, Kristallnacht Project, American Interfaith Institute
  • 1991 Australia Council VACB grant: Artist-in-Residency, ART-LAB, Manila
  • 1989 Australia Council VACB grant: Overseas studio residency, Greene Street, New York
  • 1981/82 Australia Council Crafts Board grant: Studies, Orrefors
  • 1981/82 Glass School and New York Experimental Glass Workshop.

Other Activities:

  • 2002 Artist Consultant, Australian National Botanic Gardens Arid Gardens Design Project, Mitchell Giurgola & Thorp, Architects
  • 1997-2002 Artist/planner, various ACT Government forward design study teams for Civic refurbishment and public art program
  • 1995-2002 Publisher, Multiple Constantinople editions
  • 1989-2002 Director, Galerie Constantinople, Queanbeyan
  • 2000 Curatorium member, Festival of Contemporary Art, Canberra
  • 2000 Board member, Muse magazine, Canberra
  • 2000 Board member, Studio One Inc, Canberra
  • 1993 Research Consultant, Student Evaluation and Enhancement of Teaching project, Canberra School of Art
  • 1992/93 Member, Visual Arts Committee, Cultural Council of the A.C.T.
  • 1988 Member, C.C.N.S.W. Public Art Working Party
  • 1988-1994 Designer and image-maker for People Next Door, a Canberra-based theatre group: Adelaide Festival Fringe, March
  • 1988; New South Wales tour, May/June
  • 1988; Philippines tour, September
  • 1989; Wild Grass and Toxic Kisses and Age of Consent, National Gallery of Australia, October
  • 1992 and November
  • 1993; The Hyperreal Thing, National Theatre Festival, Canberra, October
  • 1994
  • 1987 Selected participant, Crafts Council of New South Wales, Art and Craft in Architecture symposium and collaborative practice development model
  • 1986/87 Member, Steering Committee for the formation of the Canberra Contemporary Art Space
  • 1983/1987 Member, Bitumen River Gallery Collective, Canberra.
  • 1983/1987 Regularly involved in various group exhibitions and events
  • 1983/84 Initiated and organised PERFORMISM, a series of events in Canberra
  • 1982-1985 Founding co-director and exhibitor, Glass Artists Gallery, Sydney

Evaluative Activities:

  • 1998 Graduate critiques, Interlink program, Art Institute of Chicago
  • 1987 Graduate Assessor, Canberra School of Art
  • 1987-89 Sydney College of the Arts
  • 1985-89 Post-Graduate outside Tutor/Assessor, Sydney College of the Arts
  • 1985/86 Member, Sydney College of the Arts Re-Accreditation Committees, Under Graduate, Post Graduate and Masters degrees
  • 1985-87 Occasional Member, Crafts Board of the Australia Council, Working Parties

Workshops Conducted:

  • 1989 Sept Installation and stage design workshops at various cultural organisations, Metro Manila and regions, The Philippines
  • 1989 June/July Summer School, New York Experimental Glass Workshop
  • 1989 April Sculpture and installation, Sheridan School of Art and Design and Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada
  • 1987 National Glass Conference, Melbourne
  • 1985 National Glass Conference, Sydney

Publications:

Articles/Graphics by the artist:

  • "Rewiring the plait the tatt and Baudelaire's rope", Art Monthly Australia #143, September 2001.
  • "An Uncertain Relation", parts I and II, Art Monthly #44/45 and #47, 1991/92 (ed: Peter Townsend)
  • "Arenas" Text and Images, Age Monthly Review, March 1990 (ed: Paul Carter)
  • Catalogue essay, "Site Specific City", Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 1987
  • "Dan My Love", Praxis M, #24, 1989 (ed: Marco Marcon)
  • Essendon AFL Club Hall of Fame review, inSITE Magazine, October 1999 (ed: Kevin Murray)
  • "Islands unwrapped", *Real Time #*15, 1996
  • "Man of Glass", The Listening Room, ABC-FM Radio Program, 27.8.1990. (Robin Ravlich, producer)
  • "On the Other Side", Praxis M, #18, 1987 (ed: Marco Marcon)
  • "The Space Between" (with Stephanie Radok), Art Link Asia Issue, Volume 13, Nos. 3 & 4, 1993/94
  • Unreal City, Volume One, No. 1 & 2 (1986/88) (ed: eX de Medici and Stephanie Radok)

References/Reproductions:

  • Anderson, N. Reviews, Canberra Times 14.05.83, 12.10.84 and 29.01.87
  • Art Almanac (front cover), August 1998
  • Art and Australia 28/1 1990 (page 65)
  • Barrett-Lennard, J. "'a' is for artist, 'r' for regional, 'x' for exchange", Eyeline ARX3 Issue, 1993
  • Barron, S. Reviews, Canberra Times, 27.06.89 and 21.05.00
  • Bell, M. "Studio Glass Profile", Crafts Arts, Feb/April 1988
  • Boyd, A. "Essay" 3D catalogue, 200 Gertrude Street, 1992
  • Brennan, A. "Symmetry" Object, #4
  • Brennan, A. 1994/95 Muse magazine, November 1999
  • Buckingham, R. "Retrieving the Lost and Found", Craft Victoria, Spring, 1994
  • Clark, D. "Heart of Glass", Art Monthly Australia on-line review, 02.07.00
  • Cochrane, G. The Crafts Movement in Australia: A History, N.S.W. University Press, 1992
  • Cousins, K. Review, Muse, June 2001
  • Craft Australia Reproductions No. 2, 1982, No. 3, 1985 & 1984 Yearbook
  • Edwards, G. Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial catalogue essay
  • New Work magazine (USA), #63, 1997
  • Ewington, J. "Canberra Perspective". Art Monthly, Aug/Sept, 1987
  • Grishin, S. Reviews, Canberra Times, 08.05.00, 13.06.00, 8.05.00 and 13.06.00
  • James, B. "Raising the Temperature", Sydney Morning Herald, 01.02.97
  • Judd, C. Reviews, Crafts Victoria, 26/31, 1996
  • Kidd, C. "It’s a Knockout" Sydney Morning Herald 14.03.00
  • Kleinert, S. Landmarks Catalogue essay, Lismore Regional Gallery, 1988
  • Logan, J. "If anything survives us, it will probably be something else...", Art Monthly, August, 1994
  • McDonald, J. Sydney Morning Herald, 14.10.89 and 29.09.90
  • McNeill, D. Power and Knowledge 1992 Adelaide Festival Visual Arts catalogue (ed: Margot Osborne)
  • Musa, H, Canberra Times, 28.07.00
  • New Glass Review #5, Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1985
  • Rooney, R. The Australian, 22.09.90 and 16.07.94
  • Sculpture (U.S.A.) Magazine. "Neil Roberts, Flood Plane", July/August 1991
  • Selenitsch, A. "Art and Industry", Art and Australia, 26/3 1989
  • Sullivan, E. "Flood Plane", Muse, October 1990
  • "Interview with Neil Roberts", Art Monthly Australia #36, Nov 1990
  • Sutton, P. "From torn paper, art surfaces", Canberra Times, 29.01.87
  • Tonkin, S. Uncommon World, Catalogue essay. National Gallery of Australia, 2000
  • Topliss, H. "Canberra Commentary", Art and Australia, 28/3 1991
  • Waller, L. Reviews, Canberra Times, 05.12.87 and 13.06.89

Obituaries:

  • Adelaide Advertiser, 20.04.02
  • Brennan, Anne, Art Monthly Australia, p.34, No. 149, May 2002
  • Bull, Gordon; de Medici, eX; Murray, Kevin et al, Art & Australia, p.77, 40/1, Spring 2002
  • Clark, Deborah, RealTime, p.12, June/July 2002
  • Clark, Deborah, artonview, NGA, p.26, No.30, Winter 2002
  • Cochrane, Grace, Artlink, p.80, 22/2, June 2002
  • Gates, Merryn, Muse, p.6, April 2002
  • Gates, Merryn, Object, p.40, No. 40, 2002
  • Leser, David, Sydney Morning Herald, p.34, 10.04.02 and The Age, p.9, 29.04.02
  • Maxwell, Helen, The Canberra Times, p.15, 29.03.02
  • Whiteley, Richard, Craft ACT Newsletter, Autumn/Winter 2002