Brendan Neiland
In the studio © Melonie Gault, 2008<BR><BR>
In the studio © Melonie Gault, 2008


 
Holding a mask © Melonie Gault, 2008<BR><BR>
Holding a mask © Melonie Gault, 2008


 

Biography
1941 Born Lichfield, Stafford
1961-66 Birmingham College of Art
1966-69 Royal College of Art, London
1969 Awarded Silver Medal, Royal College of Art
1970 Joined Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1978 John Moore's XI Prize Winner
1979 Joined Fischer Fine Art Gallery, London
1988 Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Painters and Etchers (RE)
1992 Joined Redfern Gallery, London
Elected Royal Academician
1996 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
1998 Elected Keeper of The Royal Academy Schools
2005 Resigned from Royal Academy

Solo Exhibitions
1971 Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1972 Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1973 Victoria and Albert Museum, London & Travelling Exhibition
1974 Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1976 Brunel University
Park Square Gallery, Leeds
Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Oxford Gallery, Oxford
1977 Eastern Arts, The Minories, Colchester
Tour Prints and Paintings on Paper, AIR Gallery, London
1979 Fischer Fine Art Gallery, London
1980 Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle
1981 Anderson O'Day Gallery, London, Print Show
Bury St Edmund's Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
1983 Drumcroon Gallery, Wigan Education Art Centre
1984 Fischer Fine Art, London
1987 Anderson O'Day Gallery, London
1988 The Parnham Trust, Dorset
The Tate Gallery, London - Archive Display of the work in creating the print Lloyds
1989 Painting Beyond Architecture an Independent Observation - Royal Institute of British Architects Galleries, London
1991 Recent Paintings - Brendan Neiland Fischer Fine Art, London
1992 Gardner Centre, Brighton
Milton Keynes Exhibition Centre
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Stafford Art Gallery, Stafford
Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan
Nottingham University Arts Centre, Nottingham
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
1993 Redfern Gallery, London
Reading College of Arts & Technology, Reading Berks
1994 University of Brighton, Brighton
1994-95 A Display of Prints and Working Materials, 1974-1994, Royal Academy of Arts
1995 Highlights; New Screen Prints Lamont Gallery London
1996 City Scapes and Landscapes, Screenprints Pallant House Chichester
1997 Redfern Gallery, London
Royal Academy of Arts, Friends Room
Brighton University
1998 Brunel University
Loughborough University
2006 The Redfern Gallery, London
The Turlej Foundation, Krakow, Poland
The National Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE

Group Exhibitions
1969 Young Contemporaries London
Young and Fantastic ICA Galleries, The Mall, London
Big Pictures for Public Places Royal Academy of Arts, London
1970 Bradford Print Biennale, Bradford
Open Painting Exhibition, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1971 Big Pictures for Public Places Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
1972 Photography into Art Camden Arts Centre, London
Bradford Print Biennale, Bradford
1973 Immagini Comme Strumente Realta Galleria la Citta, Verona, Italy
Industrial Sponsors Exhibition, Peterborough and London
Five New Paintings Angela Flowers Gallery, London
An Octet from Angela Flowers Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1974 Bradford Print Biennale, Bradford, Yorkshire
Five Painters Manchester City Art Gallery
Contemporary British Prints Brooklyn Museum, New York and subsequent American tour
1975 Chichester National Art Exhibition
From Britain 75 Helsinki, Finland
Contemporary Art Society Art Fair, Mall Galleries, London
Reality, Mystery and Illusion Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, Lancashire
1976 Angela Flowers 8 Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle
Bradford Print Biennale, Bradford, Yorkshire
British Realists Icon gallery, Birmingham
Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin
Arts Council collection Hayward Gallery London
1977 Real Life Peter Moores Exhibition, Liverpool
Doors Camden Arts Centre, London
The Greater London Picture Show Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Works on Paper Contemporary Art Society, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1978 Working Processes A Sunderland Arts touring Exhibition
The Figurative Approach 3 Fischer Fine Art London
Coriander Studios, Serigraphic Prints Curwen Gallery, London
Retrospectives Park Square Gallery, Leeds
John Moores XI Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1979 Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Second National Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and subsequent tour
Painters at Work National Theatre, London
Contemporary Art, Mall Galleries, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1980 The Figurative Approach Fischer Fine Art, London
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1981 The Real British Fischer Fine Art, London
Artists into Print ICA Galleries, London
2nd Biennale of Graphical Art, Baden-Baden
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1982 7th British Print Biennale, Bradford
Presences of Nature Cumbrian Landscape exhibition, Carlisle Museum and touring
16 Artists at Battersea Arts Centre, London SW11
The Richmond Studios, Brighton
Printmakers Drew Gallery, Canterbury
Screen Spectrum Coriander Publications, Thumb Gallery, London
Gallery Knoef, Holland
80 prints by Modern Masters Angela Flowers gallery, London
The Solomon Gallery, Dublin
Painter and Printmaker West Surrey College of Art & Design
Snow, Angela flowers Gallery, London
Twelve by Twelve Leicestershire Museum & Art Gallery
Coriander Prints at Thumb Gallery, London
1983 Eight British Realists Louis K Meisel Gallery, New York
Townscape Today Oldham Art Gallery
International Biennale of Graphic Art Ljubliana, Yugoslavia
Pintura Britannic The Municipal Museum, Madrid
Words and Images of the Lake District Salford City Art Gallery
Recent Works Fischer Fine Art, London
Illustrative Images Collins Gallery, Glasgow
City Visions - Urban Landscape 1951-1980 Bolton Art Gallery
The Importance of Drawing West Surrey College
The Music Show Thumb Gallery, London
1984 Printmaking-Making Prints Atkinson Art Gallery, Merseyside
Images et Imaginaires d'Architecture Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris A Study in Patronage and Art Architecture and Design
A two-man exhibition at Fischer Fine Art, London
1985 Summer in the City Icon Gallery, Birmingham
Some Aspects of British Landscape Fischer Fine Art, London
Visual Aid for Band Aid The Royal Academy, London
1986 9th International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall, Bradford City Art Gallery
Summer Show Boyd Bellamy and Neiland Fischer Fine Art
CAS Art Market, Smiths Galleries, London
Opening and Mixed Exhibition, Anderson O'Day, London
The Royal Academy Summer exhibition, London
1987 Print Extravaganza Drumcroon Gallery, Wigan
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Opening Group Show at Thumb Gallery London
3rd International Print Biennale, Print Exhibition
ROC Taipei Fine Arts Museum Taiwan
Painting Prints, Sculptures Coach House
Contemporary Art, Kirby Lonsdale, Cumbria
1988 Artists in National Parks Victoria and Albert Museum London
Followed in 1988-89 by a regional tour of British Galleries and later to USA
Royal College of Art, 150th Anniversary Painting Exhibition, London
Oxford Gallery
London Group, RCA Gallery
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
112th Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
Impressions of Cumbria Gallery North, Kirby Lonsdale
Print in a Day Bankside Gallery, London
1989 Printmaking from Britain Moscow
The President's Choice The Royal Academy of Art, London
A London Exhibition Fischer Fine Art
Images of Paradise An exhibition for Survival International, Harwood House
The Advent Calendar A Contemporary View, Gallery North, Kirby Lonsdale
113th Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
Guest Exhibitor, New English Arts Club Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1990 Directors Choices The New Academy Gallery, London
Daniels, Harrison and Neiland in Leicestershire The City Gallery, Leicester
Artists in National Parks Houston International Festival, Oklahoma and Washington Meridian
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Accrochage Fischer Fine Art
The Discerning Eye Mall galleries, London
114th Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
1991 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
115th Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
The Discerning Eye Mall Galleries, London
1992 The New Patrons National Art Collections Fund, Christies, London
British Art Comes to St Helena British Council Print Exhibition
Artists for Nuclear Disarmament London
Summer Exhibition, Redfern Gallery
Works on Paper Gallery Valerie, Knightsbridge London
The Celebrated City Treasures from the Collection of the Corporation of London, Barbican Centre
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Art for a Fairer World (Oxfam) Glasgow, Cardiff and London
1993 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
A print is a Print Coriander Studio Exhibition at Cork Street Gallery
1994 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Summer Show, Redfern Gallery, London
Three British Artists, Redpath Gallery, Vancouver
National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1995 A Taste of Art The Mirage, Dubai, UAE
Brighton Since the Sixties, University of Brighton Gallery
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Invited Artists NEAC Annual Show, Mall Galleries, London
William Gear Past and Present Friends, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Thirty Years of Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Contemporary Print Show, Concourse Gallery
Barbican Arts Centre, City of London
National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1996 International Art Show,
World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE
Royal Academicians in Dubrovnik, Royal Academy of Arts
1997 Works on Paper from the Royal Academy, Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
Royal Academicians in Dubrovnik, Royal Academy of Arts
Royal Academicians
Dubrovnik City Art Gallery
The Print Show
Concourse Gallery, Barbican
New Orientalists
Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation & Majlis Gallery
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Railway Poster in Britain
Tokyo Station Gallery

Awards
1965 Phipps Bequest Scholarship
1966 Louisa Ann Ryland Scholarship
1968 Contemporary Art Society Purchase Prize
Northern Young Contemporaries
1969 Arthur Tooth Prize Young Contemporaries
John Minton Scholarship
1972 Arts Council of Great Britain Award
1989 Daler Rowney Award, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Summer Exhibition
1996 Best use of Illustration in an Advertisement for the Highland Collection
Scottish Advertising & Design Award, Edinburgh

Collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
Victoria & Albert Museum
Gulbenkian Foundation
Toronto Art Gallery
Brooklyn Museum, USA
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Department of the Environment
Bradford City Art Gallery
Rochdale Art Gallery
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Leicester Education Authority
West Riding of Yorkshire County Council
Ford Collection, Great Britain
Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
Leigh Museum & Art Gallery
South London Art Gallery
Glasgow Museum & Art Gallery
Bolton Museum & Art Gallery
Southampton Museum & Art Gallery
Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Government Art Collection
The Tate Gallery, London
The Contemporary Art Society
Boston Museum of Fine Art, U.S.A.
Birmingham City Art Gallery
Rutherstone Collection, Manchester
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Salford University
Brunel University
Cleveland Museum
Museum of London
Elementa Collection
Dudley Museum
Drumcroon Gallery, Wigan
Portsmouth City Museum
Leeds City Art Gallery
Sheffield University
Wiltshire Museum Services
Guildhall Museum, City of London
Staffordshire County Council
Brighton University
European Parliament, Brussels
Reading College of Arts and Technology
Hackney Community College
Royal College of Art
The Open University
University of Northumbria
The British Embassy, Paris
Loughborough University
English Heritage
National Bank of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Pidemco Land, Singapore


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