Mark Neville Explained

Mark Neville
Birth Date:1966
Birth Place:London, England
Nationality:British
Field:Social documentary photography, war art
Training:University of Reading
Goldsmiths' College (London); The Rijksakademie (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Works:Port Glasgow Book Project
Patrons:Imperial War Museum
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation,[1]

Mark Neville (born 1966)[2] is a British social documentary photographer.[3] [4]

Life and work

Neville studied Fine Arts at Reading University, Berkshire (B.A.), Goldsmiths' College in London (M.A.) and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Netherlands, although he was asked to leave after a violent incident with a female student.[5] As an artist he is known for working at the interface of art and documentary utilizing photography and films to capture the unique face of working communities.

Neville is best known for his Port Glasgow Book Project,[6] after he spent a year as artist in residence in Port Glasgow in 2004 portraying the town's hardship of Scotland's post-industrial decline in a photographic book which was distributed as a gift to members of the community. He has worked on commissioned projects by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (Braddock/Sewickley, 2012)[7] and Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute (Fancy Pictures, 2008). His work Deeds Not Words,[8] which addresses the Corby community involved in the toxic waste disposal court case,[9] exhibited in 2013 at The Photographers' Gallery in London.[10] [11] [12] Neville created a small body of work based on two 1-month residencies with the British Army in the Afghan province of Helmand as the UK's official war artist in 2010/11.[13] [14] Part of The Helmand Work showed at London's Imperial War Museum's Contemporary Art Gallery during its relaunch in Summer 2014.[15] [16] Neville claimed to have suffered from and was eventually treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder upon his return from Helmand, and this experience also resulted in The Battle Against Stigma Book Project. A selection of emails and prints from the book was included in the touring group exhibition With Different Eyes – The Portrait in Contemporary Photography which opened at Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur and Kunstmuseum Bonn in 2016, and in Neville’s solo show Battle Against Stigma at QUAD in Derby, England in 2018.

In 2012 The New York Times Magazine commissioned Neville to make the photo essay Here is London,[17] which examined wealth inequality in the capital, and which they subsequently nominated for The Pulitzer Prize. In 2016 Steidl published the first commercially available book on Neville's activist book practice. Fancy Pictures includes work from six of Neville's projects with an interview between David Campany and Neville and was shortlisted for the 2017 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards PhotoBook of the Year.[18]

Neville’s 2017 project Child’s Play continued his investigation into mental health issues by examining the importance of play in personal development. Neville’s project made a link between the closures of adventure playgrounds in Britain’s urban areas and a drastic rise in cases of depression and anxiety among young people and children.

Begun June 2016 on the day Britain voted to leave the European Union Neville's Parade book project was commissioned by GwinZegal Centre of Art, in the town of Guingamp, France. Disgusted by the outcome of the Brexit vote, Neville decided to examine what community meant in Brittany ('Little Britain’), as a mirror to his own native country.

For many years, Neville lived and worked in London. In October 2020, he moved to Kyiv in Ukraine.[19]

Awards

Publications

Notes

  1. Book: Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018 . . 2018 .
  2. Web site: 2021-08-30. Mark Neville. www.nationalgalleries.org.
  3. News: 2018-06-07. People power: Mark Neville's documentary photography – in pictures. . 6 January 2017. 0261-3077.
  4. News: 2018-06-07. Mark Neville's Immersive Photo Experiment. The New Yorker.
  5. Web site: About. Mark Neville.
  6. Web site: National Galleries . Port Glasgow.
  7. News: . Picture of the week: Mark Neville 'Woodland Hills High School Prom'.
  8. News: The Guardian. My best photograph: 'Mark Neville: Corby Carnival Queens'.
  9. News: . Exhibition sheds new light on Corby toxic waste scandal that left 16 children with birth defects.
  10. The Photographers Gallery London. Mark Neville 'Deeds Not Words'.
  11. Web site: David Campany on 'Deeds not Words'. David . Campany . David Campany.
  12. News: Shaw. Anny. Imperial War Museum reopens in London after £40m revamp. 12 October 2014. The Art Newspaper. 16 July 2014.
  13. Apollo Magazine. Review: Mark Neville's Helmand Work at the IWM London. 13 August 2014.
  14. News: The art of war. Susan. Mansfield. The Scotsman. 23 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20150328134547/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-29710405.html. dead. 28 March 2015.
  15. Contemporary Art Gallery: Mark Neville. Imperial War Museum.
  16. Wall Street International. Mark Neville: 19 Jul–25 Sep 2014 at Imperial War Museums, London. 28 May 2014.
  17. Web site: 2021-08-30. Here Is London. www.nytimes.com.
  18. Web site: 2021-08-31. In Paris: 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. www.1854.photography.
  19. News: Zoe Whitfield . Fotos aus der Ukraine, wie sie die Nachrichten nicht zeigen . vice.com . 2022-02-09 . de . May 23, 2022.
  20. https://www.iwm.org.uk/sites/default/files/press-release/IWM%20Contemporary%20Mark%20Neville_0.pdf
  21. Web site: Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018: short list announced! . 23 October 2017 . . 8 June 2018 .
  22. Web site: 2019-11-12. Shortlist announced for Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020. 5 November 2019. British Journal of Photography.
  23. News: Sean. O’Hagan. 2019-11-12. French dogs and death camp skies reach Deutsche Börse photography prize final. The Guardian. 5 November 2019. 0261-3077.
  24. http://www.markneville.com/#/the-port-glasgow-book-project Neville's page about Port Glasgow
  25. http://www.markneville.com/#/deeds-not-words Neville's page about Deeds Not Words
  26. http://www.markneville.com/#/battle-against-stigma Neville's page about Battle against Stigma
  27. http://www.markneville.com/#/childs-play Neville's page about Child's Play
  28. https://steidl.de/Books/Fancy-Pictures-0816264455.html Steidl's page about Fancy Pictures
  29. After the Brexit Vote, Mark Neville Looks at Life in "Little Britain". 27 July 2019. The New Yorker.
  30. Web site: Guingamp dans l'objectif amusé d'un Britannique. 27 June 2019. Le Monde.
  31. "À Guingamp, «l’Echappée» du pénitencier." Libération, 10 May 2019.
  32. http://www.markneville.com/#/parade Neville's page about Parade
  33. https://gwinzegal.com/editions/parade-de-mark-neville GwinZegal's page about Parade
  34. News: Ukraine: Stop Tanks with Books – in pictures . The Guardian . 11 March 2022 . Neville . Mark .
  35. http://www.markneville.com/#/stoptankswithbooks Neville's page about Stop Tanks with Books
  36. https://www.nazraeli.com/complete-catalogue/mark-neville-stop-tanks-with-books Nazraeli's page about Stop Tanks with Books

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