Neil Gall

Education

He received his Bachelor in painting at Gray"s School of Art and then attended Slade School of Art in London in 1991.

Career

Gall’s paintings, when seen on their own, might be read as perverse abstractions. When his sculptures, often the basis for many of his paintings, are shown alongside, the interplay between 2 and 3 dimensions amplifies the oscillation between abstraction and figuration. He explores the interactions between surfaces: foils, plastic wrapping, velvet, tape and other variously textured materials, frequently alluding to an erotic connection.

Stunning and unsettling, his paintings come alive with their photographic realism while others break down as collage with their cubist-like geometry.

Only when they are encountered closely does the paint itself emerge as its own textural element and artistic agent. Gall confounds the viewer by removing collective reference points.

These images are quotations of his own fantastical universes. They are tortured pictures of a tortuous process, fetish-objects in the cult of Gall’s own practice.

2008 ScheiblerMitte, Berlin Various Private.

Achievements

• 2008 ScheiblerMitte, Berlin 2008 Something Less, Something More, Gallery One One One, London 2007 Max. Durchfahrtshöhe, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin 2007 Layer Cake, Fabio Tiboni Art Contemporanea, Bologna 2007 Small Wonders, The Grey Gallery, London 2006 World Gone Mad, Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Milton Keynes, traveled to Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury and Lime House Arts Foundation, London 2005 Atoll Villas, Hales Gallery, London 2004 Tubeway Army, Keih Talent Up West 2004 Obstractivist, Hales Gallery, London 2003 Blow up, Saint Paul"s Gallery, Birmingham 2001 Model Paintings, Agnews, London 1999 Equinox, Cain Gallery, Nailsworth 1999 Jerwood Painting Prize 1999, Jerwood Galley, London.