ronald john neal

Copyright  © 2004 Pollock Gallery

 

In 2002, Ronald completed his Master of Fine Arts (by research) at Monash University, Caulfield Campus. Under the guidance of tutor, Geoff Dupree, he was encouraged to paint from life. Not an easy ask when experimental art, abstract and multi media were the fashion. But this young artist had the skills and guts to turn any subject into a major, outstanding (but never popular, boring or fashionable) work of art.

 

There is a powerful intensity and energy which Ronald John Neal puts into every brush stroke on every canvas. It is this, and the light, and the way he views his subject, which commands enormous attention from all who view his paintings. 

 

 

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The Friday Night Drinkers

Oil on Canvas

83 x 110 cm

 

 

 

Before the Storm

Oil on Canvas

60 x  71 cm

 

 

 

On the Steps

Oil on Canvas

60 x  71 cm

 

 

 

Wet Afternoon on Princess Bridge

Oil on Canvas

60 x  71 cm

 

 

 

Kananook Bend

Oil on Canvas

30 x  70 cm

 

 

 

Flinders Fog

Oil on Canvas

117 x 188 cm

 

 

 

 

Sunset over London Bridge

Oil on Canvas

40 x 51 cm

 

 

 

 

   CURRICULUM VITAE

RONALD JOHN NEAL

 

STUDIES

 

2000-02                                           Master of Fine Arts (by research), Faculty of Art & Design,

                                 Monash University, Vic.

1999                                                      Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, Faculty of Art & Design,

                                 Monash University, Vic.

The New York Studio School Drawing Marathon, Adelaide 

Centra School of Art, SA.

1997-98                     Bachelor of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Vic.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2005-November          Recent Works, Linton & Kay Gallery, Perth WA.

2005-April                    Recent Works, Temple Gallery, Sorrento, Vic

2004-August              ‘Journeyman’ TVH Gallery, Seaforth, NSW

2004-August             ‘Peregrinator’ Pollock Gallery, Richmond, Vic

2003-October              Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, Seaforth,  NSW.

2003–August            ‘Recent Works’ Pollock Gallery, Richmond, Vic

2002-April                    ‘Headspace’ Pollock Gallery, Richmond, Vic.

 

GROUP EXHlBITlONS

 

2005                           Archibald “Salon des Refuses” SH Ervine Gallery Sydney.

2005                           Toyota Community Spirit Gallery

2004                           Riptide Exhibition – Toyota Gallery

2004                           Pollock Gallery, Affordable Art Show

2004                        Temple Gallery, Sorrento Vic.

2002                           32nd Alice Invitation Prize, Alice Spings, NT.

2001                           ‘South’ Deputy Premiere's Office, 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne,

'SouthSide', Watch Tower Studio, South Melbourne Town Hall, 

2000                           'Square', Gallery 101, Melbourne, Vic..

'ARTART', Monash Gallery, Clayton, Vic.

Finalist - 'The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2000'.

Exhibition, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney, NSW.

1999                           'Stand 33', Gallery 101, Melbourne, Vic.

'Review'99', Gallery 101, Melbourne, Vic.

'The Lucato Peace Prize', Monash University, Faculty of Art

& Design,Vic.

'Panorama', Gallery 101, Melbourne

1998                           'Impact: Art for a World Identity', Monash Gallery, Clayton, Vic.

'Graduate Exhibition', Monash University, Faculty of Art & Design,Vic.

'The Lucato Peace Prize', Monash University, Faculty of Art

& Design,Vic.

'On the Line', Monash University, Faculty of Art & Design, Vic.

'The New York Studio School Drawing Marathon Exhibition', Adelaide Central School of Art, SA.

1997                           'The Lucato Peace Prize', Monash University, Faculty of Art & Design,Vic.

Solo - 'The Reconciliation (Mindscapes & Landscapes)', Sir Reginald Ansett Hall, The Peninsula Church of England School,

Mt Eliza,

 

 

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

 

2002                           Artist in Residence, Year 12 art camp, Peninsula Church of England School, Glenmaggie Camp Facility, Gippsland, Vic.

Guest Artist, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale Glenmaggie Summer School.

2001                           Artist in Residence, Year 11 & 12 art camp, Peninsula Church of England School, Glenmaggie Camp Facility, Gippsland, Vic.

2000                           Finalist - The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2000.

M.G.S. Award: The Monash Graduate Scholarship, Monash University, Faculty of Art & Design, Vic.

1998                           Open Day Painting Award, Monash University, Faculty of Art & Design,Vic.

1997                           Award for Painting Excellence, Monash University, Faculty of Art & Design, Vic.

1996                           Artist in Residence, Peninsula Church of England School, Glenmaggie Camp Facility, Gippsland, Vic.

Portrait commission for the Principal, Mr. Ray Hille, Peninsula Church

of England School, Mt Eliza, Vic.

1995                           Artist in Residence, Lane Cove Municipal Council, Lane Cove, NSW.

1994                                                      Artist in Residence, Manly Municipal Council, 'The Roundhouse'

1995                                                      Mural Commission, Fairlight, NSW.

1992                           Album Cover of the Year, Noisework's 'Love vs. Money' LP, by

A.M.I.A.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

2003                                                      Inpress Interval – Art Review/Megan Sloley – Dec 24 Issue.

2003                                                      Manly Times, Front page Feature. mid Oct issue.

2003                           The Age Review – Visual Art/Robert Nelson wed Aug 20, 2003.

2000                                                      SOUTH. Emerging artists on the south arts scene, 2001 Calendar

                                 Watch Tower Studio, South Melbourne:.

2000                           ART GALLERY GUIDE, April 2000 ed. front cover, Mount Eagle

Publications, Heidelberg, Vic.

1999                           SEARCH; Selected Work by Students from the Faculty of Art and

Design, catalogue, Monash University, Monash University Gallery.

1998                           IMPACT: art for a world identity, catalogue, Monash University  Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University Gallery