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Neil Haddon

Neil Haddon is a visual artist, originally from the UK, who has lived in Tasmania since 1996. Prior to this he lived in Barcelona, Spain from 1990 to 1996.

Neil’s paintings have been included in exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, MONA and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and are held in private and public collections internationally and in major public collections around Australia.

Recent exhibitions include: Stranded, MOP Gallery, Sydney (2009); Broken, dianne tanzer gallery + projects, Melbourne (2009);The Good Listener, Criterion Gallery, Hobart (2010); Counter Works, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney (2010); and Neil Haddon, dianne tanzer gallery + projects, Melbourne (2011) and was part of the exhibitions Theatre of the World, MONA (2012) and Near and Far, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (2011); Wormholes, Bett Galley, Hobart (2015).

Neil has been the recipient of many prizes and awards including the Hadley’s Art Prize 2018, the Whyalla Art Prize 2009, the Glover Prize 2008, and the Tidal Art Prize 2007. His paintings have been shortlisted for the Arthur Guy Memorial Prize Bendigo Art Gallery and Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Neil is the Head of Painting at the School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania.

Neil Haddon – When the Smoke Clears

These paintings take as their inspiration a line from James Kelly’s account of his 1815 circumnavigation of Tasmania in a whaling boat. In this account, Kelly writes about the moment that he and his crewmates enter Macquarie Harbour. He describes navigating through thick smoke to enter into the calm waters of the natural harbour. Because they can hear shouting, Kelly assumes that local aboriginal people are hunting kangaroo. He suggests that he and his crewmates are lucky that their boat is concealed by the clouds of smoke, thus avoiding confrontation. Later that day, Kelly gave the name Macquarie to the harbour. My paintings show the dark tannin waters of the harbour and the clearing smoke. They speculatively ask what we might see when the clouds clear.

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