Lecturer - Painting
MFA
| Contact Campus | Hobart CBD Campuses |
| Building | Centre for the Arts |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 4341 |
| Neil.Haddon@utas.edu.au |
Neil has taught at the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart since 1999. Over this time he has taught Painting, Drawing and Digital Imaging and Core Studies. He is a supervisor to Honours, Coursework Masters and Research Higher Degree students.
Neil Haddon studied at the West Surrey College of Art and Design, UK. From 1990 to 1996 Neil lived and work as an artist and educator in Barcelona, Spain. Since 1999 he has worked at the Tasmanian School of Art, completing a MFA in 2002.
Neil Haddon studied at the West Surrey College of Art and Design, UK. From 1990 to 1996 Neil lived and work as an artist and educator in Barcelona, Spain. Since 1999 he has worked at the Tasmanian School of Art, completing a MFA in 2002.
Neil’s work has been exhibited regularly since 1990, is included in many public and private collections and he has been awarded several grants to produce new work. His work has won competitive awards and been included in surveys of contemporary Australian painting. Neil was a founding member of Hobart’s Inflight Artist Run Initiative.
Neil’s research investigates strategies of selective misappropriation and wilful misinterpretation in translating existing Art Historical models or narratives into new painted pictorial form. Past work has re-evaluated formal characteristics and methodologies associated with Minimalism by misapplying these to new artworks. Recent research focuses on images taken from anecdotal or incidental narratives in the news media and re-pictures these as ‘broken’ images, or images ‘freed’ from their original narrative context. The intention is to question a complacency of attitude when regarding these images and to invoke a questioning of the narrative’s relationship to personal experience.
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