NEIL TAYLOR
Born in 1945, Neil Taylor completed a Diploma of Painting at RMIT, Melbourne. Neil taught animation for 20 years until 1998, however, he is best known for his intricate wire and metal sculptures. His work has been exhibited in Australia and overseas, and has been acquired for numerous collections including the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. Neil has completed a number of important sculpture commissions, including a major work for the sculpture garden at Heide Museum of Modern Art. Taylor currently lives and works in Melbourne and is represented by Niagara Galleries.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 sums done, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2017 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2011 States, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2008 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne,
Neil Taylor: In Review, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
The Suburban Gallery, Chicago
1990-2004 Biannually at Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2000 Natural selection, installation, Coliban Farm, Victoria
1990 Galerie Cannibal Pierce, Paris
1987 Galerie Cannibal Pierce, Paris
1983 Independent Drawing Exhibition, St.Kilda
1981 La Trobe University Gallery, Victoria
1976 Sale Regional Gallery, Victoria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021-22 The Magic Arts: Australian Animation from the 1970s to Now, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland
2017 Sydney Contemporary, Niagara Galleries, Carriageworks, Sydney
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2013 Blue Chip XV: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Small Sculpture Fair, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Victoria
2012 Korea International Art Fair, Niagara Galleries, COEX, Seoul, Korea
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2011 Korea International Art Fair, Niagara Galleries, COEX, Seoul, Korea
Blue Chip XIII: The Collectors’ Exhibition,Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2010 McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award 2010 Finalists’ Exhibition, The
McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria
Muster: A Round Up of Works from the Stockroom, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Accrochage2, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award Finalists’ Exhibition, Deakin
University Art Gallery, Melbourne
Korea International Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, Korea
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2009 Deakin Small Sculpture Awards,
Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
Making it New: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Korean International Art Fair, COEX/Atlantic Hall and Convention Hall, Seoul, Korea
West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
Recent Acquisitions from the Deakin University Art Collection, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
2007 This Crazy Love, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
Woollahra Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Sydney
Auckland Art Fair, Viaduct Events Centre, New Zealand
2006 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2005 The National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Melbourne
2004 Woollahra Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Sydney
2003 A Modelled World, McClelland Gallery, Victoria
Clemenger Endowment Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Woollahra Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Sydney
2002 The Shape of Air, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
2001 The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Melbourne
2000 The Retrieved Object, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
1999 Volume & Form, International Sculpture Exhibition, various locations, Singapore
1998 Forte Slumber, central installation, Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Resourceful, Ararat Regional Gallery, Victoria
Three Sculptors, Utopia Art, Sydney
Construction in Process VI (The Bridge), Pile On, Melbourne
1997 Arts 21, Arts Victoria, Melbourne
Bronze, Utopia Art, Sydney
World in Matchbox, Grand Central Art, Melbourne
Condemned Space, Melbourne
1996 Metal and Formative Languages, with Doh Heung-Rok, POSCO Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1995 Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1994 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Love and Ruins, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
1993 The Art Of Collecting, curated by Elizabeth Gower, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
1992 Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1991 Self Portrait Show, Galerie Cannibal Pierce, Paris
1990 Gold Coast Festival of Sculpture, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Subway, Sculpture Triennial Exhibition
Painters' Sculpture, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Underpass Show, sculpture installation, De Graves St underpass, Melbourne
1989 Artists as Filmmakers, with Marcus Bergner, Galerie Cannibal Pierce, Paris
Australians Celebrate The French Revolution, Galerie Cannibal Pierce, Paris
Artists As Toymakers, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1988 Victorian College of the Arts, animation, dance performance, Melbourne
Australian Erotic Drawings, Galerie Cannibal Pierce, Paris
1986 Festival of St Kilda Exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
1985 Round 30-40, with P. Hopper, Melbourne
Festival of St Kilda Exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
1984 New Sculptors, New Directions, Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne
1980 Festival of St Kilda Exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
Art Workers Union Show, Melbourne
1979 Amalgamated Metal Workers Show, Melbourne
1975 Works with Paper, Ewing Gallery, Melbourne
Works with Paper, La Trobe Valley Regional Gallery, Victoria
COMMISSIONS
Icon Restaurants, Docklands, Melbourne, commissioned by McGauran Giannini Soon for MAB Corporation
Theoretical matter – Mapping and reflection: a garden transformed, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Arts Victoria Community Support Fund
Forte Slumber, large scale sculpture commissioned for Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibition Building
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COLLECTIONS
ANZ Bank, Victoria
City of Port Phillip Collection, Victoria
Deakin University, Victoria
Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
La Trobe Valley Arts Centre, Victoria
McClelland Gallery, Victoria
Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne
Private Collections in Australia and overseas
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AWARDS
2010 McClelland Sculpture Awards, Victoria (finalist) Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Melbourne (finalist).
2009 Deakin Small Sculpture Awards, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Woollahra Sculpture Prize, Sydney (finalist)
2005 The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Melbourne (finalist) National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (finalist)
2004 Woollahra Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Sydney (finalist)
2003 Woollahra Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Sydney (finalist) 2001
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Melbourne (finalist)
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ARTICLES
Glenn Barkley, ‘Profile: Neil Taylor’, Artist Profile, issue 11, 2010
John McDonald, ‘Stitch in time for imagination’, 2009
Steve Dow, ‘Thoroughly Modern Lizzie’, The Sun-Herald, 13 September 2009
Neil Taylor, ‘Neil Taylor: in review’, Trouble, July 2008
Sarah Thomas, ‘Neil Taylor’, Artlink, vol. 25 no. 3, 2005
Elena Taylor, ‘The National Sculpture Prize and exhibition 2005’
artonview, Issue no. 42, Winter, 2005
Louise Bellamy, ‘Creating sculpture from found objects – it’s all in the wiring’, The Age, 6 April 2005
Robert Nelson, ‘Working with Metaphor’, The Age, 9 April 2003
Roger Taylor, ‘From the inside out’s’, World Sculpture News, July 1999
Suzanne Brown, ‘Alfresco art for Heide’, The Age, 15 February 1999
John Ryan, ‘Spring exhibitionist takes centre stage’, The Melbourne Times, 1998
Anna Clabburn, ‘Restoring our faith in those ordinary things’, The Age, 22 July 1998
Rebecca Lancashire, ‘Work springs to life’, The Age, 28 September 1998
Michael Hutak, ‘AAC @ ACAF’, Australian Art Collector, #6, October 1998
Peter Timms, ‘Gridlock: Neil Taylor’s mattress-spring sculpture for ACAF6’, Art Monthly, October 1998
Annabel Frost, ‘The joy of collecting’, Australian Country Style, 1993
Phil Pianta, The Melbourne Report, April 1992
Alison Barclay, The Herald, 1 February 1990
Jenny Zimmer, ‘Reviews’, The Age, 14 October 1990
Adam Elwood, ‘Art that can’t be cooped up’,
The Mail, 17 January 1990
Neil Taylor, Craft Victoria, June 1987
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PUBLICATIONS
sums done 2021 Neil Taylor, digital catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne.
2017: Neil Taylor, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, 2014
Blue Chip XV: The Collectors’ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, 2013
Blue Chip XIII: The Collectors’ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, 2011
Every 23 Days: 20 Years Touring Asia, Asialink – The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2010
Australian Art: ACGA @ KIAF/09, Australian Commercial Galleries Association, Melbourne, 2009
Making it New: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009
Lienors Torre and Dan Torre, Australian Animation: Neil Taylor, Cinematic Seedlings Press, 2008
Robert Lindsay, Neil Taylor: In Review, exhibition catalogue, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne, 2008
National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2005, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2005
Neil Taylor, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2005
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne 2005
The Shape of Air, exhibition catalogue, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2002
The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne 2002
Volume & Form, Andres Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Singapore, 1999
Construction in Process VI The Bridge, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, 1998
Resourceful: An Australian Ethos, exhibition catalogue, Ararat Gallery, 1998
Neil Taylor & Angela Brennan, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Galleries, 1996
Neil Taylor & Doh Heung-Rok, exhibition catalogue, Posco Gallery, Korea, 1996
The Art of Collecting, exhibition catalogue, Linden St Kilda Arts Centre, 1993