NEIL HEDGER | THE WORK
STATEMENT
The work of Neil Hedger engages with notions of traditional sculpture, referencing and critiquing the ossified redundant practice of the public monument. It is not the human body that is being represented, rather a critique of representation - a post figurative presentation of the glorification of the body in the tradition of sculpture. Following a career as a sculptor in the film industry, Hedger studied Art Practice at Goldsmiths College and has been selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008, The Matt Roberts Salon Selectors Prize 2009, the group show She Awoke With a Jerk at the Andrea Rosen Gallery, and Art Review Future Greats 2011.
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EDUCATION
2006-2008 MFA Art Practice, Goldsmiths College
1989-1993 BA (hons) Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
1989-1990 Foundation Art & Design, Croydon College
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 Janus Youth, curated by Hannah Mathews, London, (forthcoming)
2010 VICISSITUDE, Kabin Art Collection, London
2010 She awoke with a Jerk, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2010 Print Now, Bearspace, Deptford, London
2010 London Art Fair 2010, Business Design Centre, London
2010 Il alla a lai de l’ail, CrimesTown, London
2009 Time is a Sausage (solo show), DOMOBAAL, London
2009 Time is a sausage (group show), DOMOBAAL,London
2009 Salon09, Matt Roberts, London
2009 Throw ‘em out, they break my heart*, SE8, London
2009 Modern Times, Vegas, London
2009 A Day at the Races (solo show),Alma Enterprises, London
2009 ISHIHARA, The Study Gallery, Poole
2009 SALE, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2008 In It’s Wake, The Elevator Gallery, London
2008 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008,Liverpool & London
2007 Works on paper, Alma Enterprises, London
AWARDS
Selectors Prize, MRA Salon ’09, 2009
PRESS
re-title.com, Artist Focus Sculpture & Installation; Sept 2010
Critics Choice; TimeOut London, issue no.2032 July 30-Aug 5 2009*
ArtVehicle, issue 41; interview with Alma Enterprises , May 7 2009
Critics Choice; TimeOut London, Dec 15 2008
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008; Catalogue ISBN 978 0 9540848 8 2