Mark Neville

Mark Neville (born 1966) is a British artist specialising in social documentary photography.[3][4]

Mark Neville
Born1966
Leeds, Yorkshire, England
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Reading; Goldsmiths' College (London); The Rijksakademie (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Known forSocial documentary photography, war art
Notable work
Port Glasgow Book Project[1]
Patron(s)Imperial War Museum; Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation,[2]

Life and work

Neville lives and works in London. He studied Fine Arts at Reading University, Berkshire (B.A.), Goldsmiths' College in London (M.A.) and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Netherlands.[5] As an artist he is known for working at the interface of art and documentary utilizing photography and films to capture the unique face of working communities.

Neville is best known for his Port Glasgow Book Project,[1] after he spent a year as artist in residence in Port Glasgow in 2004 portraying the town's hardship of Scotland's post-industrial decline in a photographic book which was distributed as a free gift to all members of the community. He has worked on commissioned projects by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (Braddock/Sewickley, 2012)[6] and Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute (Fancy Pictures, 2008). His work Deeds Not Words,[7] which addresses the Corby community involved in the toxic waste disposal court case,[8] exhibited in 2013 at The Photographers' Gallery in London.[9][10][11] Neville created a body of work based on a three-month residency with the British Army in the Afghan province of Helmand as the UK's official war artist in 2011.[12][13] Part of The Helmand Work showed at London's Imperial War Museum's Contemporary Art Gallery during its relaunch in Summer 2014.[14][15]

Awards

Publications
  • Port Glasgow. Self-published, 2004. Edition of 8000 copies.
  • Deeds Not words. 2011. Edition of 500 copies.
  • London/Pittsburgh. London: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2014. ISBN 978-0957508576.
  • Battle Against Stigma. 2015. Two volumes, one volume has photographs by Neville and text by Neville and Jamie Hacker Hughes, the other volume contains written testimonies from various soldiers.
  • Child's Play. 2017.
  • Fancy Pictures. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2016. ISBN 978-3-86930-908-8. Includes work from six of Neville's projects. With an interview between David Campany and Neville, "Fancy Pictures".
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References
  1. "Port Glasgow". National Galleries.
  2. Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018. Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. 2018.
  3. "People power: Mark Neville's documentary photography – in pictures". The Guardian. 6 January 2017. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 June 2018 – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. "Mark Neville's Immersive Photo Experiment". The New Yorker. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  5. "Mark Neville homepage, biography".
  6. "Picture of the week: Mark Neville 'Woodland Hills High School Prom'". The Guardian.
  7. "My best photograph: 'Mark Neville: Corby Carnival Queens'". The Guardian.
  8. "Exhibition sheds new light on Corby toxic waste scandal that left 16 children with birth defects". The Independent.
  9. "Mark Neville 'Deeds Not Words'" (Press release). The Photographers Gallery London.
  10. Campany, David. "David Campany on 'Deeds not Words'".
  11. Shaw, Anny (16 July 2014). "Imperial War Museum reopens in London after £40m revamp". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  12. "Review: Mark Neville's Helmand Work at the IWM London". Apollo Magazine.
  13. Mansfield, Susan (23 September 2011). "The art of war". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 28 March 2015.
  14. "Contemporary Art Gallery: Mark Neville" (PDF) (Press release). Imperial War Museum.
  15. "Mark Neville: 19 Jul–25 Sep 2014 at Imperial War Museums, London". Wall Street International.
  16. "Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018: short list announced!". Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. 23 October 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  17. "Shortlist announced for Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020". British Journal of Photography. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  18. O’Hagan, Sean (5 November 2019). "French dogs and death camp skies reach Deutsche Börse photography prize final". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 November 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.

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