neo:galleryX Bolton UK

Had a lovely evening sat the .gallery for the open evening of

It features two



- Guillotine
Mixed media on wood
60cm x 86cm

- Pineapple Upside Down
Mixed media on wood
60cm x 86cm

And also

- Yellow
26x38
Canvas

Bolton Hospice Patrons event hosted at honouring the work of John Roberts, UoB fine art graduate 2019 with a retrospective of his work currently exhibited in Chancellors Mall.

Neo we’re honoured to attend this extremely emotive event celebrating John and his artistic career as part of Patrons event.

During the event the neo: committee awarded John with the title of honorary neo: artist as it had been his wish to join neo: after graduation. Unfortunately lockdown and ill health sadly prevented John attending neo:, however, in honour of this wish we felt he at least deserved to become an honorary neo: artist.

UoB students worked alongside John to curate this wonderful exhibition and did a fabulous job.
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Posted • Damn Picture No.5 - Screenprint on paper 2023

Some stunning studio work by one of our newest artists to

Posted • ‘pineapple upside down’ nov 23

Great night tonight for preview evening of their first open call

It features a number of


(Acrylic )

The Death of Mirth (Grimaldi)
The Death of Silence (Chaplin)
The Death of Hope (Lear’s Fool)



(Mixed medium sculpture)

The Party’s Over: Remains of the Day



(Digital Print)

There Was Once a Somebody



(Monoprint)

What did you take when you left



(Mixed media)

Mon-O-Pause Notification

(Clay)

Time Bomb (The Clock Stops Here)

For which Sandra received a Commended Artwork Award



(Collage)

Untitled

Posted • Solid Air (series)
Oxford Rd train station stairway.
Oil on canvas

A wonderful going on at the studios today by .esk

Posted • .esk Procedure, technique, method -
hallmarks of the mundane,
playgrounds of the sublime.
For every rule exists a story,
And for every exception, a rhyme.

Efficiency and flair is expected, no,
demanded. Not from them but from me.
“For what is life without flair?”
“And what is flair without efficiency?”,
the mundane often asks me assertively.

31 days in September, April, June and…
“No - I remember. I use my knuckles and
the webs between to track all that.”
What about washing up? it asks,
“well that’s one of those peculiar tasks…

I’ve seen so may methods,
so many techniques to stack a sink.
Procedures upon procedures,
All for me to drink-
up, digest, absorb,
to let my mind wander and think.

Because when my hands move
in the same way over and over again,
that sink and I become one,
both part of the same idea,
like two leaves clinging to the same stem.

And that idea, well, it’s no longer mine.
It’s a gift, a collaboration,
a lens through the mundane,
into it’s nucleus,
and through to the sublime.

Posted • We’ve been busy bees 🐝 at Neo:studios. Our 3D sculpture room has been cleaned from top to bottom and is now ready for use!

If you can see yourself working in this space why not take a look at our facilities user membership for only £50 per calendar month. If you want more information then drop us a message or visit our website…

https://neoartists.co.uk

Posted • Everybody meet one of our Neo:residency winners, a recent graduate from …

Read on to find out a bit more about him and his practice as well as his most recent project ‘MindScape’…

After recently being diagnosed with dyslexia, Tom felt lost, confused, and questioned, ‘Who am I?’ MindScape is a journey of self-discovery as he struggles to understand dyslexia and his identity within the world.

Tom has struggled with his reading, writing, and short attention span throughout his life. He often found himself ‘zoning out,’ where his mind would wander freely, drifting in and out of dream worlds. The images in MindScape are visualisations of these worlds. Through infrared photography and intentional camera movement (ICM), he captures surreal photographs that intersect the blurred lines between the recognisable and unrecognisable, where fact and fiction, past and present, collide.

The project documents Tom’s learning experiences as a child in high school, meandering through time and space to now, in his role as an undergraduate. The recent diagnosis has been crucial in this journey, as he is now able to reflect on the challenges of the past, coming to a deeper understanding, clarity, and acceptance of the disability and himself’.

We look forward to seeing what Tom creates during his residency at Neo:studios!!

Yesterday we had a visit from the Art Appreciation Group from
U3A Todmorden.

Led by there was a tour of the studio and our recently cleaned and now usable sculpture room, screen print demonstrations and the group got to make their own print. Plus tea and Jammie Dodgers

Artists and artworks on show
- (studio)
- (sculpture room)
- (sculpture room)
- (studio)
- (studio)
Posted • 🎨🎨🎨🤩

Today we have made a visit over to to visit the recently opened exhibition ‘Continuum’. It’s an exhibition of art from the University of Bolton tutors past and present. It also features a number of too. Well worth a visit with some very thought provoking work.

The gallery is open Friday and Saturday 1-5 and the exhibition runs until 19th August

Featured artists: .buckingham.96

Rachel Smith/ Joe O’Rourke/ Tom Sutton and Sue Brown (feel free to let me know their insta handles)

Posted • Neo:ArtistOfTheMonth!

Meet they have been a studio holder at Neo since January 2023. They are an artist, writer, and lecturer with particular interests in using art as a vehicle for social and environmental connection, and exploring inter-disciplinary methods within studio practice.

Their work uses walking, mark-making, and community building to explore deeper connections with the land, and search for an often elusive sense of time and place within ourselves, through the land. This usually involves facilitating sketchbook walks, where people come together to use walking and mark-making as a way to search, explore, and discover inter-disciplinary and relational approaches to landscape art through simple drawing processes and story-telling. The sketchbook walks are informed by their ongoing studio practice, which involves painting, print-making, and video, often in experimental and unusual ways.

A note from Neil about their instant film shots…

“Here we have a series of instant film shots that were taken on a recce for a recent community sketchbook walk I led in Whitefield. I’m interested in how technologies we might consider in-discrete through their essential characteristics, can seem to have expression and gesture that can often not be controlled or predicted. These images represent parts of the landscape that exist in the edges, or in-between states. The landscape is haunted, and I'm looking for ghosts.”

Posted • Neo:ArtistOfTheMonth!

Meet they have been a studio holder at Neo since January 2023. They are an artist, writer, and lecturer with particular interests in using art as a vehicle for social and environmental connection, and exploring inter-disciplinary methods within studio practice.

Their work uses walking, mark-making, and community building to explore deeper connections with the land, and search for an often elusive sense of time and place within ourselves, through the land. This usually involves facilitating sketchbook walks, where people come together to use walking and mark-making as a way to search, explore, and discover inter-disciplinary and relational approaches to landscape art through simple drawing processes and story-telling. The sketchbook walks are informed by their ongoing studio practice, which involves painting, print-making, and video, often in experimental and unusual ways.

A note from Neil about their tv, projector and camera work…

“Recently I've been conducting some experiments using analogue, obsolete, or banal technology to re-present a painted clay sculpture, made in reference to certain features of post-industrial landscapes. Much of my work is about searching for a sense of something through painterly processes such as layering, adding, and removing. Often this is about searching for a deeper sense of time and place, and more recently I've been interested in suggesting elements of myth-making, or looking for ghosts in landscapes that seem to be haunted by their past.

The set up here sees the clay sculpture sitting on an overhead projector, being recorded by a mains-powered video camera through a video cassette recorder, and displayed on an analogue black and white television.”

Posted • Neo:ArtistOfTheMonth!

Meet they have been a studio holder at Neo since January 2023. They are an artist, writer, and lecturer with particular interests in using art as a vehicle for social and environmental connection, and exploring inter-disciplinary methods within studio practice.

Their work uses walking, mark-making, and community building to explore deeper connections with the land, and search for an often elusive sense of time and place within ourselves, through the land. This usually involves facilitating sketchbook walks, where people come together to use walking and mark-making as a way to search, explore, and discover inter-disciplinary and relational approaches to landscape art through simple drawing processes and story-telling. The sketchbook walks are informed by their ongoing studio practice, which involves painting, print-making, and video, often in experimental and unusual ways.

A note from Neil about their paintings…

“To my surprise, 6 paintings became resolved through a lengthy studio absence. Here are three of them. My paintings are almost always of the land, but never directly. They are neither fully figurative nor fully abstract, and exist somewhere between the practices of searching through elusive memory, and expressing painterly gestures.”

Studio vibes




www.neoartists.co.uk

The next artist up is

The creative output of Denis Whiteside has evolved slowly throughout the last sixty years. His work has always been multi-disciplinary. His reasons for making art however have been constant. Aspects of ordinary life have driven him to bring our attention to the everyday. His main influencers have been writers of fiction along with some musicians. He’s followed visual artists too but more in appreciation than inspiration. It’s only natural that his creativity has channelled towards the written word over the years. Much of his visual art is recorded elsewhere.

Since 2017 he’s concentrated on a series of textual prints that explore mundaneness. He presents short, varied prosaic narratives that relate ordinary, often uninspiring observations via a print medium composed of ’blind-embossed’ text. Changing light conditions affect the artworks readability. Where possible he avoids remarkable or intriguing plots or subject matter. In effect he brings voice and value to the everyday, the things that comprise most of our lives.

www.neoartists.co.uk

Posted • Climate. Emergency. Hope. exhibition officially launched on Saturday , a group exhibition of environmental art curated by young people. Fabulous selection of artworks and really good to chat with artists, curators and visitors. On until June and worth making a trip to Leigh to see it and check out the many charity shops where I get the materials I work with (and clothe my family).

Through three-dimensional textiles and photography, Nerissa investigates climate change, pollution and waste by exploring change over time, not just eroding or decaying but new layers of growth, giving juxtapositions of structure and colour. She invites us to consider packaging that we use and discard on a daily basis that is so lightweight or transparent that we overlook them. Casting gives the waste weight and solidity more in keeping with its legacy. Naturally inspired textures emphasise the way our waste becomes subsumed into the natural world around us. She uses old clothes and scrap materials in all aspects of her practice for both economic & ecological sustainability.

www.nerissact.co.uk

Instagram/Twitter/Facebook:

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Posted • Completed it after 2 years of procrastination 🫠
A1 quilt on digitally printed cotton poplin, free motion and hand embroidery.

My work mainly involves, but is not limited to, large scale textile artworks. My practice is an amalgamation of contemporary and traditional textiles, combining customary methods like quilting, with digital prints to create pieces that are reflective of my love for colour and stitch.

My work encompasses themes of nostalgia and joy, I often look at the connotations of objects and the intimate relationships that humans share with objects. This is not immediately obvious when looking at my work but upon unravelling the narrative, I hope that my practice is more impactful to the viewer.

www.neoartists.co.uk

Posted • Great Crested Vermeer (Collage 2023)


I am an experienced artist, and the majority of my work concentrates on collage and printmaking. The collages are made in the traditional way with paper, scissors and glue, and are often influenced by the original Surrealist artists such as Max Ernst and Rene Magritte. I frequently use images of 18th and 19th century paintings as the basis for a series of interventions, entirely changing the nature of the original theme or narrative.

In printmaking, screenprint has become the dominant medium for me, often using a wide range of images and text from many sources of interest, including films, cartoons, old illustrations, diagrams, pulp novels etc. These screenprints are an attempt to unify a seemingly disparate set of elements, using colour and composition, geometric shapes and painted gestures. I like to think of them as ‘visual cocktails’. They are also essentially collages transferred to another medium, and influenced by artists like Robert Rauschenberg and R.B.Kitaj

www.neoartists.co.uk

Posted • Possible collage on wood. 6/4/23

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A stunning piece from the studio from



My interests are in the subtleties of our attention and approaching painting in such a way that give rise to an unexpected communication.

Primarily focusing on Landscape as a subject my aim is to mediate between the potential of natural materials to depict natural phenomena. Although the results of these explorations often appear close to our experience of vision my hope is that, in the freedom from reference material, the process is open to arrive at something which unfolds in a surprising way, both to me and the viewer.

website – wwwjamesnaughton.com

instagram –

email – [email protected]

www.neoartists.co.uk

Posted • New piece from the studio.

Posted • Aaaaand she's finished! "Portrait - Inner Child" Oil and Cold Wax Medium on Arches Huile Paper 30" x 22" . . . She's a bit intense. When viewed from a distance, this image appears as a double exposure . . . The second image is the initial layers for a new piece. As always, these first layers will most probably be hidden.



www.neoartists.co.uk

Next artist up is with the beginnings of some wonderful larger paintings

Posted •

www.louisegarman.com
www.neoartists.co.uk

Posted • Great bright light
In the studio today




I am currently focused on painting. My paintings develop through doing more. The thinking is done primarily in front of the canvas and the actions are attempts to describe the thoughts. I approach the canvas with only a vague plan in mind, the plan shifts as the painting develops… reflection occurs somewhere between painting bouts. The tools are the same building blocks that formal painting has employed infinitum; the combinations of colour, line and shape are limitless. When I was at art school in the 80’s, painting was claimed by many, to be dead; everything had apparently been done. Perhaps it had… but certainly not by me. Consequently I continue to paint in order understand my relationship to myself, the world… and to the act of painting itself. I love the texture and innate expressive quality of oil colour and its respective mediums. The paintings are currently deconstructed narratives, reshaped to fit within a pictorial context… the paintings are as much about the nature and making of paintings as they are about personal narratives. This is important as it gives the viewer the ability to access the paintings with more freedom.

Instagram:

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One of our newest members to join Neo is

His work uses walking, mark-making, and community building to explore deeper connections with the land, and search for an often elusive sense of time and place within ourselves, through the land. This usually involves facilitating sketchbook walks, where people come together to use walking and mark-making as a way to search, explore and discover inter-disciplinary and relational approaches to landscape art through simple drawing processes and story telling. The sketchbook walks are informed by his ongoing studio practice, which involves painting, printmaking, installation, and video, often in experimental and unusual ways.

Instagram:
Website : neilgreenhalgh.net

After a few changes over the last few months would like to introduce all the current studio holders and the works we’re currently working on.

First up is
Bryn focuses on urban surroundings and decay. Creating abstract work both digitally and experimentally through painting and print.

Instagram -

Take a look at our updated website for more info and everything Neo - www.neoartists.co.uk

Posted • Oil on hardboard, 58cm x 48cm. Untitled

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www.louisegarman.com/portfolio/

Neo artist on a visit to the , Sheffield. He is currently exhibiting in their ‘Postcard Exhibition’ alongside 49 other artists from across the Uk.

He has transferred on of his digital pieces into print

The show is running until 28th January

Posted • .newroad https://www.louisegarman.com/ https://www.burynewroad.org/manchester/artists-fake-it-on-bury-new-road/

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