NEIL FETTLING | Download Bio
Born 1956, Castlemaine, Australia
Education
2015—PhD, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University (Titled: Relics: Four ways of looking at loss)
1996—Master of Arts (Research), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
1984—Certificate of Fine Art and Language, Paris American Academy, France
1979—Diploma of Education, State College of Victoria, Hawthorn
1976—Diploma of Fine Art, Bendigo Institute of Technology.
Current employment
2013 – 2015—Director, La Trobe Art Institute, La Trobe University
2010 – 2013—Campus Director, La Trobe University, Mildura
1990 – 2010—Senior lecturer and co-ordinator, School of Visual Arts and Design, La Trobe University—Mildura campus
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014—Relics, Monash University Art Design & Architecture (MADA) Gallery. Melbourne
2009/10—Water + shed; a twenty year survey of work based on the issues of water (1989 – 2009) Mildura Arts Centre
2007—3 months in Manila, Gallery 25, Mildura Noosphere in Manila, Ateneo de Manila Art Gallery, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
2003—An(other) Mallee History, Mildura Arts centre, La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne
1997—Noosphere, Mildura Art Centre
1996—Fletchers Lake, Form and Metaphor, Gossard Project Space, RMIT
1993—The sum of all elements and the existence of the whole, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
1989—Of Tracks and Traces, works of Fletchers Lake, Mildura Arts Centre, Riverland Arts Centre, Renmark
1988—Other Places, works of Chicago, Janice S Hunt, Chicago. USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014—Informed Dissent. Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Bendigo.
2013—Relics. Mildura Palimpsest Biennale # 9. 31 Deakin Avenue, Mildura.
2011—Me Here Now: Identity and Place in contemporary Australian Art. Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines Il Grillo Parlante, White Cube Mildura
2010—Clandestine, an ashscape installation responding to the loss and trauma from the bushfires on black Saturday, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo
2009—Clandestine, ,an ashscape installation responding to the loss and trauma from the bushfires on Black Saturday. Gallery 25, Mildura Murray Darling Palimpsest #7, Old Wentworth Gaol, Wentworth
2008—orb, Pablo gallery, Manila, Philippines
2006—Common Ground, Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre. Melbourne Murray Darling Palimpsest, La Trobe University Project Space Signs and Symbols, Gallery 25, Mildura
2005—Urban, Gallery 25, Mildura Works on paper, Gallery 25, Mildura Miniature, La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne
2004—Gigalitre, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide, Southern Cross University Gallery, Lismore, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Mildura Arts Centre Monochrome, Mildura Arts Centre
2003—Borderlands, Gallery 25, Mildura Palimpsest #5, Mildura Show Grounds
2002—Karabiner, Mildura Arts Centre Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery Terra Primus, Adelaide Fringe Festival, The Red Room Gallery, Adelaide
2001—Palimpsest #4, Mildura Arts Centre Headlands, Heart of Gold Fiesta, View Street Gallery, Bendigo
2000—Palimpsest #3, Mildura Arts Centre Why does it have to be landscape, La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne
1998—Inkpots and Internet, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Bendigo
1997—Spirituality and Sense of Place, Mildura Arts Festival, Mildura Arts Centre
1996—The River, Mildura Arts Centre, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier, Shepparton Art Gallery, Benalla Art Gallery, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Group Exhibition, 100 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1994—Grisaille, Mildura Arts Centre, Marks, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Bendigo
1993—Against the Flow- Into the Current, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Altarations, Seven Full Scale Personal Altars, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
1992—Process, Mildura Arts Centre, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Bendigo, Mungo Show, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1991—Shire of Eltham Art Exhibition, Eltham
1990—Alice 125, Gryphon Gallery, City Square Place, Melbourne, Fletcher Jones Memorial Regional Artist Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery
1989—Heidelberg and Heritage, Two Visions of Australia, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1988—The Last Supper, Good Friday Restaurant, Mildura
1987—The Will, Koorlong Gallery, Mildura
1986—Straight Eight, Langtree Avenue, Mildura
1984—Group Exhibition, Paris American Academy Gallery, Paris
1983—Recent works, Mildura Arts Centre
Publications
2009—Hired Hands: The Filipino collaborations of David Griggs, Artlink, June, 2009
2007—The Space of Palimpsest, Budhi: A journal of ideas and culture. Vol X1. No 5. Ateneo de Manila University.
2006—The Space of Palimpsest, Double Dialogues, University of Otago, NZ .Issue 7, Ground work, Regional Arts Victoria. Edition No 4, Murray Darling Palimpsest # 6 Symposium
2004—Self similarity, works by Steven Turpie & Chris Evans, Arts About, Sunraysia Daily
2000—A confluence of Science and Art, Ecopolitics, University of Western Sydney,Vol 1, No 1, Theorizing the regions, Art Link. Winter Edition, Introductory essay, Palimpsest #3 catalogue
1999—Uncommon ground, Palimpsest #2 catalogue
Selected Bibliography
2013—Helen Vivian, Relics. Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #9 Catalogue.
2011—Merryn Gates, Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #8 Catalogue. Collaborators & Saboteurs, Modus Operandi, Eight minutes later.
2010—Helen Vivian, the trace left behind, by the disappearance of everything else, Art, Monthly Australia, pge 15-17, June 2010, Issue 230
2009/10—Helen Vivian, Water+Shed: a twenty year survey of work based on the issues of Water (1989-2009. Catalogue essay. 2009) Catalogue Essay.
2009—Helen Vivian, Clandestine: an ashscape installation responding to the loss and Trauma from the Bushfires on Black Saturday. Catalogue Essay.
2009—Helen Vivian, Palimpsest #7: Displacement, Art Monthly, Australia. June 2009. Issue 220, Helen Vivian, Murray Darling Palimpsest #7 – re-socialisation catalogue, Pge 16-18, 2009.
2007—Siddharta Perez, Noosheres: a coalescence of the natural and artificial. Ateneo de Manila University
2006—Alana O’Brien, Common Ground. La Trobe University Art Museum
2004—Julian Bowron, Arts About, Sunraysia Daily
2003—Alan Frost, A plain of promises and disappointments. An(other) Mallee History, catalogue, Ian Hamilton, An(other Mallee History, the art of Neil Fettling, An(other) Mallee History
2000—Julie Copeland, A Mallee History interview, ABC Radio National Arts program. The sigh of the land, Realtime
1998—Peter Stitt, Palimpsest # 1 catalogue
1995—Rodney James. ‘The River’ exhibition catalogue.
1993—Works of Fletchers Lake, The University of Sydney News, Vol 25. No 5, Bronwyn Watson. Bowing to Daily Ritual, The Sydney Morning Herald/ Sep 17.
1990—Kerry Paull. Alice 135 Catalogue
1989—Ruth Martin, Of Tracks and Traces, works of Fletchers Lake, Sunraysia Daily
1988—N. Van Straaten, Other places, works of Chicago. Chicago Gallery News, Weekly Arts, Chicago Tribune. Sec 7.
Collections
Private and corporate