NEVILLE FRENCH

Born 1955 Maryborough, Victoria.

Lives Buninyong, Victoria.

Education

2000: MA Fine Art, Research (Ceramics) RMIT University, Melbourne.

1983: Certificate of Stoneware Glazes, Brisbane CAE.

1980: Grad. Dip of Education, Hawthorn State College, Melbourne.

1976: Diploma of Fine Art (Ceramics) Ballarat CAE.

Selected Solo / Duo Exhibitions

2024:     From the Crest, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

The Light Crept In, Belinda Fox, Art Gallery of Ballarat (Collaborative ceramics)

2022: Cloudlight, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

Fall, with Belinda Fox, presented by Arthouse Gallery, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sydney

2021: Cultivate, Belinda Fox, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney (collaborative ceramics)

Mutual Realities: Finding common ground in uncertain times, Art Gallery of Ballarat (with Rhonda Baum)

2017: Tilt, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney (with Belinda Fox)

2015: From the Landscape, Kerry Lowe Gallery, Sydney (with Cathy Franzi)

2013:  Hua Ping, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong (collaborative ceramics with Belinda Fox)

2012:  Give & Take, Beaver Galleries, Canberra (collaboration with Belinda Fox)

2011:  Slip, Belinda Fox, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney (collaborative ceramics)

2010:  Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

2009:  Galerie Rosenhauer, Goettingen, Germany

2007:  Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne

2004:  Galerie Hors- Saison, Melbourne

2000:  Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

1999:  Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC, USA

1997:  Ararat Art Gallery, Victoria

1997:  Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne

1995:  Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne

 Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Held, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
Surface Effect: Ceramics Collection Stories, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney
Craft Lab 24 Design Expo, Mining Exchange, Ballarat

2023
Deep Winter, Mr Kitly, Brunswick, Melbourne
Present Tense, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
Paper and Ceramics, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize, Finalists exhibition, Montsalvat, Melbourne
The Great Takeaway, Craft Lab 23, Mining Exchange, Ballarat
XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2022
Craft Lab 22, Design Expo, Mining Exchange, Ballarat

2021
Cups, Michael Reid Clay Gallery, Sydney
Craft Lab/Design Expo, Mining Exchange, Ballarat

2020
Porcelain, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Federation University 150 Anniversary trail, Art Gallery of Ballarat

2019
Gifted, Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, Manningham Gallery, Melbourne
Making: The Quiet Voices, Wayside Pavilion, Hobart

2018
Fieldwork, School of Clay and Art (SoCA), Melbourne

2017
Victorian Craft Award, Craft Victoria, Melbourne (finalist)
Ceramics Collection 17, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney

2017
90×90: 90 Artworks from 90 Years of Collecting, Whitehorse Arts Centre, Box Hill, Melbourne

2016
Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Qld
Contemporary Porcelain, Ten Australian Masters, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney
Highlights from the Victoria Ceramics Collection, Whitehorse
Artspace, Box Hill Town Hall, Melbourne

2015
Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Art Gallery, Hobart (finalist)
Victorian Craft Award, Craft Victoria, Melbourne (finalist)
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, Manningham Art Gallery, Victoria, (finalist)
Belonging: Embodied Commentaries Inspired by Place, ANU
School of Art, Canberra (In conjunction with the Australian Ceramics Triennial)
Contemporary Clay, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney
Welcome to Table, Pomegranate Hall, Castlemaine State Festival, Victoria
Earth, Fire and Water 50 years of Shaping the Elements, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria

2014
Terroir, Jamfactory at Seppeltsfield, Barossa Valley, South Australia
Australia/Korea Invitational Exhibition, Hanyang University Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
The Course of Objects; The Fine Lines of Inquiry, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney NSW
Important Exhibition of Australian Ceramics, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

2013
Small Works, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, Melbourne, Victoria

2012
Cecily and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, National Gallery of Victoria, (Finalist)
VITRIFY Alcoso Ceramic Award, Jamfactory Craft & Design Centre, Adelaide SA (winner)
Enduring Forms, Aptos Cruz Gallery, Stirling SA (both Invconjunction with the Australian Ceramics Triennale SA)
Recent Acquisitions and Works on Paper, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
Scope 012, Arts Academy PO Gallery, University of Ballarat, Victoria

2011
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council
Chambers, Sydney (Finalist)
A Day at the Beach, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, Manningham, Victoria, (Finalist)
National Ceramics Award Clunes, Victoria, (Finalist)
Scope, Arts Academy PO Gallery, University of Ballarat, Victoria

2010
National Ceramics Award Clunes, Victoria (Winner)
27th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Gold Coast
City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queensland (Finalist)
City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas (Finalist)
Colour, Texture, Form, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queensland
Scope, Arts Academy PO Gallery, University of Ballarat, Victoria

2009
Tablewares: Contemporary International Ceramics, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Here/Now, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Scope, Arts Academy PO Gallery, University of Ballarat, Victoria

2008
Vessel/Sculpture, German and International Ceramics Since 1946
Grassi Museum of Applied Art, Leipzig, Germany
Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
Gift of Rod Fyffe, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

2007
Celebration, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney, NSW

2006
Australische Impressionen, Galerie Rosenhauer, Goettingen, Germany
Innovations: Melbourne- Hong Kong, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Tainted Love: Contemporary Developments in Landscape, Bendigo Art Gallery
Encrusted: Australian Woodfired Ceramics, Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne
Porcelain- Three Makers, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
COLLECT, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK. (Australian Contemporary)
Light Matters, Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
University of Ballarat Ceramics, Arts Academy PO Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria

 Selected Awards

2013
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award – Acquisition Award

2012
WINNER – VITRIFY Alcorso Ceramic Award

2010
WINNER – National Clunes Ceramics Award

2008
Project Grant – New Work VAB Australia Council
Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award – Acquisition Award

2005
International Touring & Export Grant- Arts Victoria

2004
Craft in Site Grant, Craft Victoria

2001
Project Grant – New Work VACF Australia Council

2000
National Craft Acquisition Award, MAGNT, Darwin

1999
Public Art Work, Ballarat Police and Law Courts

1997
Project Grant – New Work VACF Australia Council
Australia Council Crafts Board Grant to work with Master Craftsman
John Gilbert

 Selected Bibliography

2019: Kylie Gusset, Manifesting A Quiet Space; A review of three major exhibitions at the Hobart Triennale, Australian Ceramics Journal, Vol 57
No 2 p.112

2017: Neville French, Neville French talks about his recent collaboration with Belinda Fox, The Australian Ceramics Journal, July 2017

2017: Lucy Stranger, Tilt, Belinda Fox and Neville French, Artist Profile magazine online, Nov 2017

2014: Neville French, Mungo Light Vessels, Craft Arts International, No 90, 2014 p 48- 49

2014: Ceramics Monthly Arts Yearbook & Annual Buyers Guide, Awards, 2014
p 40

2012: Bonnie Cassidy, Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, Art Review 2012

2012: Kerry- Anne Cousins, Empathy adds to Ambience, Canberra Times, 28th March 2012

2012: Brett Ballard, Belinda Fox/Neville French in collaboration, Ceramics Art and Perception Issue 88 p 112-114 June 2012

2011: Altair Roelants, ‘The Narrative of Place’, A collaborative journey with Belinda Fox and Neville French, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Issue 50/3 Nov 2011 p 20-25

2011: ‘A Day at the Beach’: Handwerk Gallery, Munich, Germany 2011, Compact Disc

2011: Neville French, In My Studio, The Journal of Australian Ceramics Issue 49/2 July 2011, p78 -81 issue cover

2010: Jeffrey B Snyder, Ceramics Today, Schiffer Publishing, USA 2010, p.70-71

2009: Peter Schmitt, Land, Sky, Colour, Light: Neville French Master of Glaze, New Ceramics, Germany, Oct. 2009

2009: Peter Schmitt, Neville French in Goettingen, Keramic Magazine, Germany Oct 2009. P.6

2008: Olaf Thormann, Vessel/Sculpture: German and International Ceramics
Since 1946, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Germany, 2008

2007: Neville French, Luminous as the Moon: An Inspiration, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 46 #3

2006: Peter Schmitt, Australische Impressionen, Neue Keramik, Germany, Dec 2006, p 46

2006: Peter Schmitt, Australische Keramik in Gottingen, Keramik Magazine, Germany, p 7 (Image)

2006: Neville French, Place and Identity, Innovations: Melbourne- Hong Kong, RMIT University, Melbourne 2006

2005: Stephan Bowers, Australian Contemporary, A Sense of Place, Ceramics Art & Perception, #58

2005: Ceramic Review: International Magazine of Ceramic Art and Craft UK,
Far and Wide, Jan/ Feb 2005 (Image)

2005: Kathleen Fisher, Porcelain, Canberra City Search, Fairfax digital, Oct 2005

2003: Peter Lane, Contemporary Studio Porcelain, A & C Black, UK 2003, p 20 (Image)

2003: Suzzanne J.E. Tourtillott, 500 Bowls: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Form, Lark Books, USA, 2003, pg 302, 402

2001: Contemporary Australian Design CD, Object Galleries Sydney, 2001

2000: Neville French, Porcelain Bowl Refined, Pottery in Australia, 39/4 2000 pp 28- 30

2000: Kevin White, The Porcelain Bowl Redefined, profile of Neville French, Craft Arts International No 47 1999-2000 pp 34-36

1999: Helen Stephens, Simple Slam: A Ceramic Aesthetic, Ceramics Art and Perception No 38 1999, pp 100-102

1999: Neville French, Ballarat to SoHo, Craft Victoria Bulletin No 2 1999

1998: Sandra Jane and Max Darby, Art Is, Making, Creating, Appreciating,
Jacaranda Wiley Ltd,  p 153

1998: Don Davis, Wheel-Thrown Ceramics, Lark Books, USA 1998 pg 65

1997: Monument Architecture & Design, Still-Life Ceramics of Neville French No19 1997

1997: Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Neville French: Thought and Action in Tune, Ceramics Art and Perception No 27 1997, pp 39-40

1997: Joseph Pascoe, Neville French- exhibition comment, Craft Victoria Bulletin No 2 1997

1996: Kim Hornby, Neville French, Pottery in Australia – Autumn, Issue 35/1 1996 pp 38-39

Exhibition Catalogues

2019: Making: The Quiet Voices, Waterside Pavilion, Hobart, May

2017: Tilt, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney August

2014: Terroir, Jamfactory at Seppeltsfield, SA, 26 Sept - 23 November

2014: The Course of Objects, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney, May

2014: Australia/Korea Ceramics, Hanyang University Gallery, Seoul, Korea, April

2014: Important Exhibition of Australian Ceramics, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne. Feb

2013: Hua Ping, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong Nov (collaboration with
Belinda Fox)

2013: Containment: Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award 2012, The
Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne 2012/13

2012: Give & Take, Beaver Galleries Canberra ( Collaboration with
Belinda Fox )

2011: Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council, Sydney

2011: Slip, collaborative ceramics with Belinda Fox, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney

2010: Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum

2010: Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award

2010: Neville French, Mungo Light, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne 2010

2010: Prue Venables & Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Tablewares: An International
Collection, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

2007: Prue Venables, Celebration, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney

2006: Peter Schmitt, Australian Impressionen, Galerie Rosenhauer, Goettingen, Germany

2006: Christopher Sanders, Innovative Ceramics: Melbourne- Hong Kong, Nellie
Castan Gallery

2005: Stephan Bowers, Australian Contemporary: A Survey of a Sense of Place,
COLLECT, Victoria and Albert Museum UK

2005: City of Hobart Art Prize, Ceramics/ Painting, Hobart Art Gallery

2004: Anna Maas, Celebrating the Master, Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne

2004: Sarah Bond & Dr Kevin Murray, Heresy: The Secret Language of Materials, Craft Victoria

2002: Kirstin Fitzpatrick, Less is More/ Less is a Bore, Brisbane City Gallery, June

2002: Allison Gray, National Craft Acquisition Award, Museum and Art Gallery
of the Northern Territory, August

2000: Marianne Heller, Australishe Keramik, Galerie Marianne Heller, November

2000: RMIT Postgraduates 2000, RMIT University, Melbourne

1999: Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art (SOFA) Chicago, The Sybaris Gallery

1996: Peter Hayes, Vessel, Contemporary Australian Ceramics, Canberra School
of Art Gallery

1996: Jim Logan, Stillness, Craft ACT Gallery, June

1996: Owen Rye, Australian Woodfire Survey: Strathnaire Homestead Gallery,
Canberra

1991: Prue Venables, Aspects, RMIT Gallery

Newspaper articles

Kerry-Anne Cousins, Mastering the Fine Art of Miniature, Canberra Times, December 14, 2013

Kerry-Anne Cousins, Empathy adds to Ambience, Canberra Times, March 28, 2012

Chloe Pollard, International eyes on artists, Ballarat Courier, Aug 28, 2008

Megan Backhouse, Age Newspaper, 48 Hours Critical Guide, Dec 1, 2007

Alissa Kelly, Unique Ceramic Art Lands German Invitation, Ballarat Courier, September 16, 2005

Rebecca Lancashire, The Subtle Charms of Fired Clay, The Age, Domain, December 16, 1999

William L. Hamilton, From Handmade to High Style, New York Times, USA, February 25, 1999 (Image)

Helen Greenwood, The New Stone Age, Sydney Morning Herald, August 5, 1999

Claire Hunter, Potters Pieces to go on Show in NY, Ballarat Courier, 1998

Ellizabeth Findlay, Inviting Contemplation, Canberra Times, July 12, 1996

Public Commissions

Ballarat Town Hall

Ballarat Botanic Gardens

Ballarat Police and Law Courts

Ballarat Childcare Centre

 Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT; National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne, Victoria; South Australian Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA; Queensland Art
Gallery, Brisbane, Qld; Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney, NSW; Museum and
Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, NT; Shepparton Art Gallery,
Victoria; Gold Cost City Art Gallery, Queensland; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery,
Townsville, Qld; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria; Bendigo Art Gallery,
Victoria; Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria; Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria;
Devonport Art Gallery, Tasmania; The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
University, Victoria; University of Wollongong, NSW; Queensland University of
Technology Art Collection, Qld; Federation University, Ballarat, Victoria;
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, NSW; Banyule Art Collection, Victoria;
Manningham Council Art Collection, Victoria; City of Whitehorse, Art
Collection, Box Hill, Victoria; ArtBank, NSW; City of Inagawa, Japan; Grassi
Museum, Leipzig, Germany; Hanyang University Museum Gallery, Seoul, South
Korea; Sydney Casino; Private collections in Australia, USA, Great Britain and
Germany.