NELL

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Born in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney (Bachelor of Visual Arts), Australia

The University of California (Honours), USA

Founding Director of Rubyayre artist run gallery

Master of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Made in The Cross, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

All the Way, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

There Goes a Narwhal (with Michael Zavros), Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne

Happy Ending, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Who Made Who, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Nell, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales

No Mountain, No River, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Fly as High as Me, Newcastle Region Art Gallery

Wet Light, Block, Sydney
The Fly and the Mountain (with Mel O'Callahan), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Unlimited Radiance, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Treasure, Briefcase, Sydney
mel + nell (with Mel O'Callahan), Room, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
nell, Showcase, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

NellNation (with Neha Choksi) Byculla, Mumbai
nell + mel (with Mel O'Callahan), Galerie Stadt Munchen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
mel + nell (with Mel O'Callahan), Room 35, Sydney

NellNation (with Neha Choksi) 4A Gallery, Sydney
nell + mel (with Mel O'Callahan), Room 35, Sydney

Nell, Galerie Y-Burg, Vrieshuis Amerika, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
mel + nell (with Mel O'Callahan), Room 35, Sydney

Groove is in the Heart (with Sadie Chandler) Stripp, Melbourne, Australia
Unfettered, Side-On, Sydney

NELL.A, room 505, The Co-op, Los Angeles, USA

Bunny Installation, Interior 4, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Twenty/20, UTS Gallery, Sydney and Dubbo Regional Gallery (curated by George and Ron Adams)

Group Show 2009/2010, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Wax On, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery (curated by Nell Schofield)The Woollahra Sculpture Prize, Redleaf Council Chambers, Sydney

to whom it may concern: the written word in contemporary art, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne

Soft Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

3x2x2x3 (curated by Barbara Flynn), Deloitte, Sydney

There Goes a Narwhal, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria

Neo Goth: Back in Black (curated by Alison Kubler), The Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Rimbaud / Rambo, Neon Parc, Melbourne

Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria

Summer '07 '08, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

New Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

“2”, onefourteen, Darlinghurst, Sydney

Heidegger 30 Ans Deja (curated by Annette Messager), Galerie Gauche, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Flaming Youth, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange

ABN AMRO Prize, (Finalist), ABN AMRO Building, Sydney

Postgraduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney

The Tonight Show, The Rehearsal Room, Sydney

Creepy Crawlies, Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich

Girl Band (curated by Barbara Flynn), Deloittes, Sydney

Film Archive, Art 38 Basel, Basel, Switzerland

ABN AMRO Prize, ABN AMRO Building, Sydney

Out of Place (curated by Binghui Huangfu), Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney

The Woollahra Sculpture Prize, Redleaf Council Chambers, Sydney

Not Being There, Beijing International Art Camp, Suo Jia Cun, Beijing

Demolish? Demoish! Demolish., Beijing International Art Camp, Suo Jia Cun, Beijing

Blake Prize Exhibition, Sir Hermann Black Gallery & Sculpture Terrace, University of Sydney

Unstrung: the bead in contemporary art, (curated by Louise Tegart), Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria

Uncanny (the unnaturally strange) (curated by Rhana Devenport), ARTSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand

The Maitland Art Prize, Thomas Morgan Pavilion, Maitland

Small Offerings, The Cross Art Project, Sydney

Material Girls and Boys (curated by Barbara Flynn), Deloitte, March-June 2005

Academici: The Australia Council Visual Arts/Crafts Board Rome Studio Residency, 1999-2004 (curated by Kit Wise), Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne and Academia Britannica, Rome

Auto Fetish: Mechanics of Desire (curated by Nick Mitzevich), Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle

Adrift, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

A Pink Idea, Ralph Lauren Pink Pony Auction for Breast Cancer, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2004 Annual Fundraising Exhibition, Asia Australia Arts Centre, Sydney

Hang 12, Clean Oceans Auction, Christies Sydney

The ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, ABN AMRO Tower Foyer, Sydney

Out of the Blue, MOP Projects, Sydney

The Freedman Foundation Awards Exhibition, Sir Hermann Black Gallery & Sculpture Terrace, University of Sydney, Sydney

2004: Australian Culture Now, Australian Centre for the Moving Image and The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Melbourne

The Maitland Art Prize, Thomas Morgan Pavilion, Maitland, New South Wales

Academia Britannica, Rome, Italy
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
Spiders and Flies, New Contemporaries, Sydney
Willoughby City Art Prize, Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney
The Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Eggstravaganza, ANA Hotel, Sydney
Wanderings, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland, New South Wales
Liverpool City Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, New South Wales
Sydney MOP, MOP Projects, Sydney

Gallery 4A Fundraising Exhibition, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney

1^st Floor Final, 1^st Floor, Melbourne

Willoughby City Art Prize, Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney

Art and About, Sydney City, AMP Building and Town Hall House, Sydney

Slacking Off, Imperial Slacks, Sydney

Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Archive of Dud Slides, Briefcase, Sydney

Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney

Briefcase 50, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

Towards a Free Tibet, Span, Melbourne

The Flag Project, One Station Plaza, Peekskill, New York, USA
The First 20 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Christmas Cave, Block, Sydney
Blue Sky, Wren, Sydney
Boot Camp, Block, Sydney
The Woollahra Sculpture Prize, Redleaf Council Chambers, Sydney
I'm an Artist and I Need My Sleep, Rubyayre, Sydney
Black to Basics, Rubyayre, Sydney + 1st Floor, Melbourne
Garage Sale, Rubyayre, Sydney
1st Floor Fundraiser, 1st Floor, Melbourne

Do They Know It's Christmas, Rubyayre, Sydney
Mum Shirl, Boomalli, Sydney
Not Quiet Right, Grey Matter, Sydney
O/K, Pioneer Studios, Sydney
Emergency Rescue, Rubyayre, Sydney
Garage Sale, Rubyayre, Sydney
Untitled, Rubyayre, Sydney

Primavera, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Wolf in Sheeps Clothing, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Dazzle, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Later/Updated, Galerie Stadt Munchen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, SH Errvin Gallery, Sydney
69, Side-On, Sydney
UCLA Senior Undergraduate Art Exhibition, Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles

A Taste in Art, In support of Community Aid Abroad, Sotheby's, Melbourne

NEXT, Sydney College of the Arts Honours + Graduate Diploma Exhibition, Sydney
White Hysteria, South Australian Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide, Stripp, Melbourne
The Co-op Show, The OK, Los Angeles, USA

fanta (sm), First Draft, Sydney
N.S.W Government Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, COFA Gallery, Sydney
Limbo, Sydney College of the Arts-Graduating Students Exhibition, Sydney
War on Art Part II, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney

AWARDS

New work grant, The Australia Council

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (Scholarship)

Rome studio, The Australia Council

The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists

The Marketing Grant, NAVA

The Woollahra Sculpture Prize, Winner of the People's Choice Award

Emerging Artists Grant, The Australia Council
The Pat Corrigan Grant

Sydney University, Overseas Study Bursary

William Fletcher Trust Grant

COLLECTIONS

Artbank

Austcorp corporate collection, Sydney

BFG Superannuation Fund

Deutsche Bank

Museum of Contemporary Art

Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Australia

MBF Australia Ltd, Sydney

The University of Queensland Art Museum

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bernard Zuel, Made in The Cross (exhibition catalogue)

Jacqueline Millner, Nell: Fly as High as Me, Conceptual Beauty: Perspectives on Australian Contemporary Art, published by Artspace, 2010

Bronwyn Clark-Coolee, Twenty/20 (exhibition catalogue) UTS Gallery

Nell Schofield, Wax On (exhibition catalogue) Hazelhurst Regional Gallery

Rob Bates, Small but perfectly formed, The Wentworth Courier, Wednesday Oct. 21st, p52-53

Art and About (exhibition catalogue) Retrospective, p34-35

Lucina Ward, Soft Sculpture (exhibition catalogue)  National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Lucina Ward, Soft Sculpture : Don't  Touch, Lick or Smell, Art on Review, Issue 57, Autumn, p20-27

The Artlife, Series 2, Episiode 1, ABC Television

Anna Saunders, Simply Red, Marie Clare, June, p28-37

Lionel Bawden, ALL THE WAY, (exhibition catalogue), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 2008

There Goes a Narwhal, (exhibition catalogue) Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne

There Goes a Narwhal, (exhibition catalogue) The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane

“Deathly Art: VR Morisson, Nell and Therese Howard”, Art Monthly, June 2008, Issue #210, p41-43

“Nell, New Work”, Art World, Issue 2, April/May 2008, p140-143

Alice McCormick and Sarah Rhodes, The Artist's Lunch, Murdoch Books, 2008, pp 148 - 15

Robert Nelson “With sinister sauce and sorcery, creepy is the new black”, The Age, 13 February 2008, p25

Alison Kubler, Neo Goth: Back in Black (exhibition catalogue) The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2008, p78

Ashley Crawford, “Gothic Candor: I am the coffin that will not be silent”, Art Monthly, Dec 2008, Issue #216, p46

Craig Douglas, “Neo Goth: Back in Black” Artlink Vol. 28 No. 4, 2008

Barbara Flynn, 3x2x2x3 (exhibition catalogue) Deliotte, Sydney, 2008

Robert Nelson, “Sculptures reject formula for jocular,” The Age (Metro Reviews), Wednesday March 14, 2007, p18

Artist Pages, Publick Art, Bush Job Edition, 2007

Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award (exhibition catalogue) Werribee Park, Victoria, 2007

New Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

“Making more possible”, ABN Amro 2006 Emerging Artist Award (exhibition catalogue), Sydney, 2006

Barbara Flynn, Girl Band (exhibition catalogue), Deliottes, Sydney, 2006

Flaming Youth (exhibition catalogue), Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 2006

Postgraduate Degree Show (exhibition catalogue) Sydney College of the Arts p.146

“Critical Mass”, Art and Australia, Vol. 44, No. 2, p274

Katrina Strickland, "Weave Magic", The Australian Financial Review, 7 December, p.44

Joanna Mendelssohn, “Nell: Happy Ending”, Artlink, Vol. 25 No. 3, p 83

Dominique Angeloro, “Those about to rock”, Metro, June 3-9 2005, pg 26

Rex Turnbull, “Nell - Just Nell,” Lino Magazine, Issue 9, art section, p. 98

Felicity Harley, Academici, (exhibition catalogue), Monash University, 2005, p. 30

Tracey Clement, Primal Urges, The Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 14 October, p27.

Sunanda Creagh, Open Gallery, The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, p29

Victoria Hynes and Annemarie Lopez, The Apprentice, The Sydney Magazine, August 2005, p52-59

Rhana Devenport, Uncanny: The Unnaturally Strange (exhibition catalogue) Artspace, Auckland

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Rueben Keehan, “Out of the Blue,” localART, issue 16, October, p. 3-4

Fine Arts, The British School at Rome 2003-2004, p. 60-63

Ingrid Woodrow, Auto Fetish (exhibition catalouge), Newcastle Region Art Gallery, November 2004.

Peter Hill, “Free installations,” Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), July 17-18, p. 8 - 9

Shelley McSpedden, “Critic's Picks: Nell,” Sydney Morning Herald (Metro), July 16 - 22, 2004, p. 27

Lenny Ann Low, “Mice and death, as well as things in primary colours,” Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Tuesday, July 13, 2004, p. 14

Sunanda Creagh, “Spotlight: Who Made Who,” Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Friday, July 9, 2004, p. 12

Naomi Evans, Nell: Who made who, exhibition brochure, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Dr Charles Green (editor), 2004: Australian Culture Now (exhibition catalogue), Australian Centre for the Moving Image and The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Melbourne, p. 178
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Jeni Porter and Lisa Pryor, “Are you getting enough?,” The (Sydney) Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, June 18, p. 46, 47

Bruce James, "Queen of the uncanny turns up the heat," Sydney Morning Herald, November 27, p. 16.
Jacquline Millner, Review, Postwest, No. 20, p. 56, 57
“Cat: Nell,” 3D World, Issue 568, 1 April

“Profiles,” Art Almanac, November, p. 118

Art & About: the city as a canvas, brochure, 16 - 29 September, p. 4
Jacqueline Milner, The Fly and the Mountain (exhibition catalogue), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Jessica Halloran, “Exhibition,” Sydney Morning Herald, Jan. 25, p.14
Lenny Ann Low, “Fly Buys,” Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 2-3, p. 11 Metro
Alejandra Szczepaniak, “Mel + Nell,” LOOK, Art Gallery of New South Wales Magazine, Feb., p. 30
Emma Nowland, “The Fly II,” Black + White Magazine, Issue 59, Feb., p. 4

Courtney Kidd, “Unlimited Radiance,” Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 16 March, p. 27
Roman Danylak, “Briefcase,” Object No. 3, p. 14
Jason Markou, “Boot Camp,” exhibition essay, Block, Sydney
Lenny Ann Low, “Urban Insights”, Sydney Morning Herald, August 11 - 12, p. 11 Metro
Elizabeth Fortescue, “Off the Wall”, The Daily Telegraph, June 9, p. W9
Grant Sutherland, “Genetics,” Helix Illustration, Black + White Magazine, Issue 54, August

“Nell for mac,” Oyster Magazine, Issue 31, August-September, p. 52.
Bruce James, “Sights,” Sydney Morning Herald, April 22nd, p. 2
Russell Storer, “Beauty, Trust, Seduction,” eyeline, No 41, summer, p. 16 -17.
Dent, N. “Seepy Crawlies,” Black + White Magazine, Jan, p. 6

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Bruce James, “Monster Hunt,” Sydney Morning Herald, Oct.16th, p. 13s.
Hicks, S. “Just Nell Firmly Installed,” Mosman Daily, Oct. 7, p. 18.
Ben Genocchio, “Fun and funky talent show,” The Australian, Sept. 24th, p, 12.
Amadio, R. “Going Places,” Wentworth Courier, Sept. 22nd p. 39.
Elizabeth Fortescue, “Unsung artists go back to the future,” Daily Telegraph Sept. 10th, p. 52
Rachel Kent, Primavera, (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Bruce James, “Flies in the face of Reality,” Sydney Morning Herald, April 24th, p. 12
Russell Storer, Dazzle, (exhibition catalogue), 1st Floor, Melbourne

Bruce James, “Galleries,” Sydney Morning Herald, March 23rd
Bruce James, “Sights,” Sydney Morning Herald, March 21st, pg 2s.

A Taste in Art, in support of Community Aid Abroad, (exhibition catalogue), Sotheby's, Melbourne

Hawks, G. “L.A Story,” University of Sydney News, October 23rd, pg 7.