Contemporary landscape painter Neil Ernest Tompkins has developed a painting style recognisable for its blending and fragmenting of imagery and perspectives. He is renowned for his distinctive approach to mark-making and has been featured in myriad exhibitions across the globe, as well as being part of extensive commissions, murals, and residencies in Portugal, India, Peru, Mexico & Tasmania.
PROFILE
Neil Ernest Tomkins
Contemporary landscape painter Neil Ernest Tompkins has developed a painting style recognisable for its blending and fragmenting of imagery and perspectives. He is renowned for his distinctive approach to mark-making and has been featured in myriad exhibitions across the globe, as well as being part of extensive commissions, murals, and residencies in Portugal, India, Peru, Mexico & Tasmania. Tomkins’ process usually begins en plein air, loosely drafted with a focus on composition and framework. Often, the artist refines his imagery by cutting up photographs taken while travelling, and arranging them into collages that form a reference for his ensuing paintings. He is regularly exhibited and represented by galleries across Australia.
“I aim to connect with the place, to find the spaces of stillness within the motions of the everyday. In this sense, I would approach direct references to landscape to be conceptual, and abstract. Often breaking down the subject matter into fragments, my work alludes to a connection through displacement. With each body of work, I try to develop that idea of movement through the understanding of colour. Travel contextualises my work, where the shifting light is more abstract, unrooted and adaptable.”
Neil Tomkins, 2023
ARTIST CV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Return of Rivers, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, NSW
2021 Between Dreams, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, NSW
2020 Now Here. Nowhere, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, NSW
2019 This Dream Called Reality, 17 Oxford St, NSW
Synergy Collaborations, Studio Gallery, VIC
2018 This Could be Your Color, Raizvanguarda, PT
The Veil, New Standard Gallery, NSW
2017 Rising Dark, New Standard Gallery, NSW
2016 A Deep Rumble, New Standard Gallery, NSW
2014 East of Eventuality, Ginkgo Gallery, NSW
2013 Neil E Tomkins, Ginkgo Gallery, NSW
2010 SCA grad Show, Sydney Collage of Arts, NSW
Animals and Landscape, Mil’s Gallery, NSW
2008 Birds and Friends, Abattoir Gallery, NSW
2007 New and Old Work, Long Gallery, NSW
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 country x Country, Cooee Art Leven, NSW
2021 X-mas show, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, NSW
2020 Showcase, Michael Reid Gallery, NSW
2019 Open Call Salon, Delphain Gallery, UK
2018 Paper and Canvas, New Standard Gallery, NSW
2017 June, New Standard Gallery, NSW
2016 Higher Ground, Kinokuniya, NSW
2015 Art Parked, Artesian 4, NSW
2014 We, The Muse, Ambush gallery, NSW
2012 Outpost Festival, Cockatoo Island, NSW
2011 Communicating with Rocks, Mils Gallery, NSW
2009 Two Young Painters, Cat & Fiddle, NSW
2007 Ten Young Artists, Project Gallery, NSW
RESIDENCIES
2018 Milton Post Office Residency, NSW
Raizvanguarda Artist Residency Góis, PT
Unconformity Festival Residency, TAS
2017 Q Bank Artists Residency Queenstown, TAS
2015 El Ray Private Residency Mazunte, MX
COLLECTIONS
Neil Tomkins’ work is held in Private collections Nationally in NSW,
VIC, QLD & TAS and Internationally in USA, MX, PT, FR, DE, MN & IN.
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