Art2Muse

Artworks available to view in Sydney

From his early years as a scenic artist, painting sets for Australian films, theme parks and theatre, to his study years at the National Art School and College of Fine Art (COFA), Neil Hicks has established himself as a force in contemporary Australian Painting.

Neil Hicks' influences are provided by the Australian atmosphere, and hold strong references to regional identity and indigenous culture. In his work, Neil takes external stimuli and re interprets them as intimate interiors. Alternately, Neil Hicks will take personal data and reconstruct them into objective landscapes.

His attempts to reconcile his surroundings with a sense of identity forge the work into complex codes of formality without crowding it with information.

The tactile finish lends the work a sense of immediacy despite the subtle manifestations of antiquity. His images bristle with a type of anxious inertia allowing the viewer's eyes to scuttle about the surface of the painting discovering familiar foibles of evocation.

Solo Exhibitions

2008-Recent Works-Libby Edwards Galleries, Brisbane
Evidence Personelle-Libby Edwards Galleries, Melbourne
2007 Elementals- Libby Edwards Galleries, Sydney
2006 Branching Out-Libby Edwards Galleries, Brisbane
Flametrees-Libby Edwards Galleries, Melbourne
2005 Snowtrees-Libby Edwards Galleries, Sydney
2002 New works-Global Gallery, Sydney
2001 Serendipity-Rocks Resort, Gold Coast
Untitled-Arts Café-Gold Coast Art Gallery
1999 Bums and Beaches-Corporate Art Centre, Gold Coast
1994 Aspect America-Monterey Fine Art, California
1993 Urban Myth- Headonspace, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

2009 Drawcard, National Art School
Mt Ayre Vineyards Art Prize
2008 Paddington Art Prize
Pyrmont Art Fair
Drawcard, National Art School
2007 Sotheby’s Art Walk
Artist at the table, National Art School
Pyrmont Art Walk
2006 Art Quake, Tsunami Relief, Stonevilla
Camden Art Prize
Paddington fundraiser
Group show Albury Cellar
2005 Art on the Rocks
Cromwells Art Prize
Dogs Life, A Space Gallery
2004 Waverley Art Prize
Fishers Ghost Art Prize
2003 Affordable Art Show
Alberta St Art Prize
Amnesty International
2002 Marymount Art Prize
Signature Art Prize
2001 Border Art Prize
Life’s a beach Art Prize
Gold Coast Show
2000 Marymount Art Prize
Graduation Exhibition, National Art School
1999 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize
Bundaberg Art Festival
1998 Logan City Art Prize
1997 AFA Group Show Marriott Hotel
Emerging Gold Coast Artists
1996 Brackets and Jam, Sydney
1994 State Street Painters, Santa Barbara
Travellers Art Expo, Washington DC
1993 Waverly Art Prize
Oxford Street Portrait Prize
Graduation Exhibition, National Art School
Tap Gallery Group Show

Education

2003-04 Arts Education, COFA
2000 Bachelor of Art, National Art School
1994 Printmaking Post Graduate
1990-93 Advanced Diploma Fine Art, National Art School