Neil Bromwich
Lecturer in Fine Art

Introduction

Neil Bromwich works collaberativaly with Zoe Walker. Through their work they protest and dream, via gallery installations, public art, sculpture and performance. Their work explores the space between the real landscape and an imagined location inviting their audience to consider an ‘other’ way of being.

Research Interests

Multi-disciplinary practice: gallery installation and public event based works which includes video, sculpture and performance

Current Work

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• MONOGRAPH: Walker & Bromwich; 128 pages; Published By John Hansard Gallery, Essays JJ Charlesworth, Sally O’Reilly, ISBN 9780854328642

• PANACEA: Pinsky, Walker & Bromwich; 128 pages Published By John Hansard Gallery; Essays JJ Charlesworth, Michael Stanley, Evelyne Toussaint, ISBN 9780854328628

• Biennale 2 Praxis Catalogue: 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece; catalogue entry Celestial Radio commission for Thessaloniki– A Celestial Odyssey, Plus introductory Essay by Gabriela Salgado

• One Day Sculpture Book, New Zealand published by Kerber in Jan 2010. Co-edited by David Cross, Associate Professor in Fine Art at Massey University, Wellington and Claire Doherty, Director of Situations at the University of the West of England, Bristol

Esteem Indicators

SELECTED SOLO - Exhibitions, Performances , Off-Site Projects

2009 Public Event - Bank of Reason, Collective Gallery Edinburgh
2009 Performance – Panacea Casebook, Baltic Gateshead; CCA Glasgow; Modern Art Oxford; John Hansard Gallery Southampton
2008 Exhibition - On the Threshold of a Dream, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2008 Off-Site Project Touring - Celestial Radio 87.7FM, A Visionary Journey,
Kent Tour to Whitstable Biennale, Margate, Folkestone Triennial.
2007 Exhibition, Limbo-land, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead,
2007 Exhibition, Siege Weapons of Love, 1,000,000MPH Project Space, London.
2006 Off-Site Project, Celestial Radio, A Pirate Radio Station broadcasting from the River Tyne, AV06 Festival, Newcastle & Gateshead
2006 Exhibition, Panacea Hothouse, Cornerhouse Manchester
2006 Performance Love Cannon, Whitechapel Gallery London.
2006 Off-Site Project, Sci-fi Hot Tub, Live Event, Kielder Art & Architecture Fellowship, Northumberland.
2006 Off-Site Project, Sci-fi Hot Tub, Victoria Baths, Manchester.
2006 Exhibition, Panacea SuperSpa, Le Parvis, Tarbes France.
2004- 05 Exhibition, Panacea the Art of Wellbeing, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.
2005 Exhibition, Panacea l’art d’etre bien CCC Tours, France.
2006 Performance Love Cannon, Les Ateliers des Arques, Les Arques, France.
2004 Off-Site Project, Celestial Radio, A Pirate Radio Station broadcasting off the Essex Coast.
2000 Exhibition, Portable Paradise Lightbox, Economist Plaza, London.
2000 Exhibition, My Island Home, Victoria and Albert Museum.
2000 Exhibition, Somewhere Special, ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, and CCA, Canberra, Australia.
1998 Exhibition, Dream Cloud, Travelling Gallery, touring Scotland.
1996 Exhibition, Portable Paradise, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.

SELECTED GROUP Exhibitions

2009 Polari, Vagas Gallery London
2009 Dumbwaiter – Feildgate Gallery at James Taylor Gallery. London
2009 Running Time – Scottish Video Art 1960 to Now,
Dean Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Edinburgh
2009 Tina B. The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague
2009 Praxis, Biennale 2, Thessaloniki Greece – A Celestial Odyssey new city wide commission for Celestial Radio
2009 Invisible Adversaries NGCA Sunderland
2009 Breakfast of Champions, Yinka Shonibare Space, Broadway Market, London
2009 Ad Infinitum – VAGAS Gallery, London.
2009 Intertidal - live event Dunedin, part of One Day Sculpture a series of International projects throughout New Zealand.
2008 Becks FUSION, Love Cannon Parade, Manchester.
2008 Nothing to Declare, 4th Triennale of Contemporary Art Oberschwaben,
Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
2008 Parallax, Fieldgate Gallery, London
2008 What can a Dessert Island do? Seventeen Gallery, London.
2007 Celestial Radio & Love Cannon, Big Chill Festival, Eastnor Castle, Malvern
2007 Love Cannon, Live Performance, Scope Special Projects Basel, Switzerland.
2007 Locws International Wales, Live Event, Swansea.
2006 Right on Right Off, Whitechapel Gallery & Chapman Fine Art,
With the Great Unsigned, London.
2006 Madame Arkwright’s Salons, Camden Arts Centre, London.
2006 Threshold’06, Node London E:vent Gallery, London.
2005 Weekending, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
2005 Human Nature, Battersea Pumphouse, London.
2004 The Birthday Party, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.
2004 Week-ending, Globe Gallery, Newcastle and South Shields.
2004 Coast, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester.
2002-03 Site-Seeing: A Disneyfication of Cities?, Künstlerhaus, Vienna.
2002 Art and Mountains, The Alpine Club, London.
2002 TV Swansong, live webcast, screened: Tate Liverpool, CCA, DCA, ICA, BALTIC
2001 The Great Escape, Grizedale Sculpture Park, Cumbria.
2001 Urban Nomads, South London Gallery, London.
2001 Northern Exposure, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney.

Funding

MAJOR Grants & Awards & Works in Collections

2009 West Collection, Philadelphia acquisition ‘Siege Weapons of Love, Tank’
2009 Wellcome Trust Extension Award – Touring Panacea Casebook
2006 AHRC- Grant for the Creative & Performing Arts; for- Testing Sci-fi Hot
2006 Wellcome Trust Production Award
2006 ACE Touring Award
2005 ACE Grant for the Arts
2002 Towener Gallery Eastbourne, acquisition ‘Somewhere Special’

Undergraduate Teaching

undergraduate programmes on the Fine Art BA Stages 2-4.

Postgraduate Teaching

Postgraduate tutees and contribution to MFA seminar programme