NEILL WRIGHT

Neill Wright is a multidisciplinary artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He explores various mediums, such as sculpture, printmaking and painting as modes of expression, drawing inspiration from a variety of sources within his lived experience. The bold, multi-layered and colourful work speaks to a curiosity about and affection for the natural world while the geographically impossible mashups hint at the chaos of everyday life. Abstract and representational elements co-exist in a seductive yet menacing way suggestive of both the exultation and terror present in the unknown and un-explored.

 In 2007 Neill graduated with distinction to the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Honours), at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town where he was co-awarded the Simon Gerson Prize for an outstanding body of work.  In 2009 he graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, majoring in printmaking. In 2013 Wright was named one of the 10 emerging South African artists to watch by The Times, and he has exhibited in a number of group and solo exhibitions as well as at numerous South African and International Art fairs. His work is housed in both corporate and private collections throughout the world.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022             I Forget Where We Were, District Gallery, Cleveland, USA

2020             The Only Way Out Is Through, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

                     To Anywhere and Nowhere, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2018             Blizzard Head, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2016             Wilderness, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2015             The Atrophy and the Ecstasy, Sulger-Buel Lovell, Cape Town

2013             The Hilarity of Reality, Circa on Jellicoe, Johannesburg

                     Spectacular but Empty, The Lovell Gallery, Cape Town

2011             Protect Your Roots, Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection, Cape Town

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022             Spring, group show, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

                     Things I’d like to remember, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2021             Spring Show, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2020             TINY2020, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

                     US, Everard Read, online exhibition, UK & South Africa

2019             Summer, Everard Read, London, UK

2017             Spectrum, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

                     Off the wall: A group sculpture exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2015             Bronze Steel Stone, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2014             Liberation un(masked), Sulger-Buel Lovell, London, UK

2013-14        Summer of Sculpture, Mount Nelson Hotel, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2013             Whack! Gallery In Toto, Johannesburg, South Africa

2011             Summer Salon, Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection, Cape Town, South Africa

                     TLG Competition Winners, The Lovell Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

                     Winter Salon, Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection, Cape Town, South Africa

2010             Out Of Africa, Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection, Cape Town, South Africa

SELECTED ART FAIRS

2016             FNB Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read booth

                     Cape Town Art Fair, CTICC, Cape Town

2015             Turbine Art Fair, Sulger-Buel Lovell, Johannesburg

2014             FNB Joburg Art Fair, Lovell Urban booth, Johannesburg

                     Turbine Art Fair, Lovell Contemporary, Johannesburg

                     Cape Town Art Fair, Salon91 Contemporary, Cape Town

2013             Art For Me, Lovell Gallery, Cape Town

                     Sydney Contemporary, Australia

                     FNB Joburg Art Fair, Lovell Gallery booth, Johannesburg

                     Turbine Hall Art fair, Lovell Gallery, Johannesburg

                     Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown

2012             FNB Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read booth, Johannes