Neville Pilven
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© 2004 Pollock Gallery
Born
in 1939, Neville Pilven studied at the National gallery Art School and the
George Bell School (drawing). During the 60’s and early 70’s,Neville travelled
to England, Spain and, later, Hydra in Greece, where he lived, painted and
continued his art studies. He then moved to London to study Printmaking at the
Morley College in 72 and returned to finally settle in Melbourne in 1973.
Throughout
his career as an artist, Neville has held over 14 major solo exhibitions with
several leading Melbourne and international galleries.
Like
all contemporary modernists, Neville has engaged in the challenge to establish
a succinct Australian iconography and has been concerned with producing
unconventional modernist landscapes for about four decades.
Neville
Pilven’s paintings depend on the conceptualisation of his emotional connection
to the land. The bleak and impersonal nature of his landscapes negate human presence
yet reminds us of distant human intervention. His large paintings emphasise the
dynamism of changing topography and the harshness of the forces which sculpted
its forms.
Neville Pilven has established himself as an authority of anti-romantic landscape painting, denying the validity of folk myths and avoiding nostalgic reference. His selectivity and use of brooding colour sets him apart from his contemporaries and lends his work the stamp of authenticity.
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Riverbank Blue Oil on Board 92 x 183 cm |
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Hillfire I Oil on board 32 x 51 cm |
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Wimmera Hill II acrylic on board 31 x 59 cm |
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Gold Dam 2 Oil on Board 35 x 44 cm |
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Evening Falls Oil on Canvas 128 x 76cm |
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Pink Hillside Oil on Board 87 x 88 cm |
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Fire & Grass Tree Oil on Canvas Board 87 x 88 cm |
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Sail Rock Theme Acrylic on Paper 58 x 86 cm |
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Sail Rock III Ink &
Acrylic on Paper 71 x 94 cm |
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Through Dark Oil on Board 87 x 88 cm |
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Landscape Image Oil on Canvas 62 x 122 cm |
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NEVILLE
PILVEN
BIOGRAPHY
1959-61
Studied National
Gallery Art School
1960
Studied drawing George
Bell School
1965
Travelled to
England - painted/studied
1966
Travelled to Spain –
painted/studied
1967
Returned to Australia
1970-72 Lived/painted in
Hydra. Greek Islands
1972 Studied Printmaking,
Morley College, London
1972 Established home studio in Melbourne
EXHIBITIONS &
GALLERIES
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1972 Joseph Brown Gallery,
Melbourne
1977
Ararat Regional Art
Gallery
2004 Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza
2004 Pollock Gallery,
Richmond
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003
Windows on Church
Galleries, Richmond
(Now Pollock Gallery)
1998 A.R.T. Gallery Eden, Melbourne
1997 A.R.T. Gallery Eden, Melbourne
1994
Steps Gallery, Carlton
1992 Stuart Gertsman Galleries,
Richmond
1991
Australian Airlines,
Tullamarine
1991
Stuart Gertsman
Galleries, Richmond
1990
Stuart Gertsman
Galleries, Richmond
1985
Stuart Gertsman
Galleries, Richmond
1978
Solander Gallery,
Canberra
1977
Warehouse Gallery,
Melbourne
1975 Manyung Gallery, Mt
Eliza
1973
Ansdell Gallery, London
1971
Joseph Brown Gallery,
Melbourne
INVITATION
ART PRIZE PARTICIPATION
1979
John McCaughey
Invitation Art Prize, NGV
1976 Sir William Anglilss Memorial Invitation Art
Prize
1974
Travelodge invitation Art
Prize, Canberra
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
- Joseph Brown Collection - Ansett Collection - Westpac Collection
Latrobe
University Collection - Telstra Australia Collection
National Bank Collection – Ridley
Collection – Potter Walburg Collection
Private Collections in the
UK, USA, Australia and Japan.
COMMISSIONS
Myer
Melbourne 1976
Telstra
Australia Collection 1986
National Panasonic,
Scoresby 1993
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Encyclopaedia
of Australian Art 1970-1980, Vol 2,
Alan McCulloch
Flight Deck Magazine No.49
June 1991 – Artist Profile – Australian Airlines Publications.