Born in 1965 in Düsseldorf, Germany, Mariele Neudecker lives and works in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Education
1985-1987 Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland 1987-1990 Goldsmiths’ College (Bachelor Honours Degree), London 1991-1992 Chelsea College of Art and Design (Master of Arts Sculpture), London 1996-1997 Tower Hamlets College (Digital Image Creation/Manipulation), London.
Career
Neudecker uses a broad range of media including sculpture, installation, film and photography. Her practice investigates the formation and historical dissemination of cultural constructs around the natural world, focusing particularly on landscape representations within the Northern European Romantic tradition and today’s notions of the Sublime. Central to the work is the human interest and relationship to landscape and its images used metaphorically for human psychology.
Neudecker has shown widely internationally, notably in Biennales in Japan, Australia and Singapore, also solo shows in Ikon Gallery, Tate Street Ives and Tate Britain.
She is represented by gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin. 1985-1987 Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland 1987-1990 Goldsmiths’ College (Bachelor Honours Degree), London 1991-1992 Chelsea College of Art and Design (Master of Arts Sculpture), London 1996-1997 Tower Hamlets College (Digital Image Creation/Manipulation), London.
Achievements
1993 European Artists Pépinière, Visual Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1996 The Discerning Eye - New Discovery Art Prize, Household Bank Investment Bank, London
1996 MOMART Prize Winner, The Whitechapel Open, London
1997 1st Prize for Sculpture, 7th International Biennial of Sculpture and Drawing, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
1998 Henry Moore Sculpture Fellowship, Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom
1999 Prize-winner Oil of Olay (LUX Centre/Make magazine), London
1998-1901 Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art, UWIC, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2001 Botho-Graef-Prize of the city of Jena, Germany
2008/9 Aldeburgh Music 1st Visual Artists Residency, Snape Maltings, United Kingdom
2010 Headlands Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, United States of America
2010 Ludwig Gies Preis, Letter Stiftung, Germany
2012 Sculpture for Norwich, public art commission, Norwich, United Kingdom.