Nell - Artist Profile - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

	NELL

1975	Born in Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
1993 - 1995	Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney (Bachelor of Visual Arts), Australia
1996	The University of California (Honours), USA
1999 - 2001	Founding Director of Rubyayre artist run gallery
2005 - 2006	Master of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
	SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013	Gravest Hits, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Syudney.
2012	Hometown girl has wet dream, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
2010	Made in The Cross, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2008	All the Way, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney There Goes a Narwhal (with Michael Zavros), Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2005	Happy Ending, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2004	Who Made Who, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2003	Nell, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
2002	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
2001	Unlimited Radiance, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Treasure, Briefcase, Sydney mel + nell (with Mel O'Callahan), Room, Rotterdam, The Netherlands nell, Showcase, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000	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
1999	NellNation (with Neha Choksi) 4A Gallery, Sydney nell + mel (with Mel O'Callahan), Room 35, Sydney
1998	Nell, Galerie Y-Burg, Vrieshuis Amerika, Amsterdam, The Netherlands mel + nell (with Mel O'Callahan), Room 35, Sydney
1997	Groove is in the Heart (with Sadie Chandler) Stripp, Melbourne, Australia Unfettered, Side-On, Sydney
1996	NELL.A, room 505, The Co-op, Los Angeles, USA
1994	Bunny Installation, Interior 4, Sydney
	GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013	Like Mike, Sarah Scout Gallery, Melbourne Group Show, Kaliman Rawlins, Melbourne
2012	all originals represent / IN SYNTHESIS: Female Artist Collectives and Collaborators, Paramount Pictures Building, Sydney Transmission, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney. Inspiring Artists: Recipients of the Pat Corrigan Artists' Grant, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland. Theatre of the World, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart.
2011	GROUPS WHO, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2010	Twenty/20, UTS Gallery, Sydney and Dubbo Regional Gallery (curated by George and Ron Adams)
2009	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
2008	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
2007	Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria Summer '07 '08, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney New Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2006	“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
2005	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
2004	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
2003	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
2002	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
2001	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
2000	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
1999	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
1997	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
1996	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
1995	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
2008	New work grant, The Australia Council
2006	École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (Scholarship)
2003	Rome studio, The Australia Council
2002	The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists
2001	The Marketing Grant, NAVA The Woollahra Sculpture Prize, Winner of the People's Choice Award
1999	Emerging Artists Grant, The Australia Council The Pat Corrigan Grant
1996	Sydney University, Overseas Study Bursary
1994	William Fletcher Trust Grant
	COLLECTIONS
	Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney The University of Queensland Art Museum Maitland Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales Artbank Austcorp corporate collection, Sydney BFG Superannuation Fund Deutsche Bank MBF Australia Ltd, Sydney
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013	Carrie Miller, freedom with contradictions, Australian Art Collector, Issue 64, Apr-Jun 2013, pp. 112-118. James Eyers, 'For the love of art', Capital Magazine by AFR, March 2013, pp. 56-57.
2012	Emma Swain, `ACDC, Buddhism and art?', Maitland Mercury, June 20, 2012 http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/159878/acdc-buddhism-and-art/ Slanted (ed.), Bright! Typography Between Illustration and Art, (Germany: DAAB Media, 2012)
2011	Emily Dunn, `The Art of Collecting', SMH Spectrum, March 12-13, 2011, pp6-7 Micheal Fitzgerald, 'Romance was Born Again', Art and Australia, Issue 48 No. 3, pp. 665-671
2010	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 Isobel Phillip, `Praying Hands', theartlife.com.au, 19^th August, 2010 Gillian Seriser, `Nell: A Question of Identity', Australian Design Review, (date unknown), pp. 46
2009	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
2008	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
2007	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
2006	“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
2005	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 Exhibition Review “Triple M Rocks the Afterlife” http://artlife.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_artlife_archive.html
2004	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 Jane Somerville, “Biennale Satellite Exhibitions,” State of the Art, p. 97
2003	Jeni Porter and Lisa Pryor, “Are you getting enough?,” The (Sydney) Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, June 18, p. 46, 47
2002	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
2001	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
2000	“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
1999	Blank, E. “Fresh Flair for the Art Scene,” Architektur + Wohnen, Oct.26th, pp 94, 95, 97, 127, 133. 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
1998	Bruce James, “Galleries,” Sydney Morning Herald, March 23rd Bruce James, “Sights,” Sydney Morning Herald, March 21st, pg 2s.
1997	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.