From rainforest to foreshore
diverse Australian landscapes by Neil Evans

9th February – 26 March 2012

Neil Evans has worked as a conceptual artist, performance artist and painter for some 40 years. In 1969 he assisted with Christo’s massive Wrapped Coast project at Little Bay near Sydney. In 1971 he performed a piece for the famous John Kaldor Art Project 2. From the 1990s Evans exhibited regularly at Sydney’s Legge Gallery and now shows with Watters Gallery.

Evans is best known for his paintings on a small scale and has exhibited small portraits in the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the SH Ervin Gallery’s Salon des Refusés

shown at the time of the annual Archibald Prize. The exhibition Evans has prepared for our Gallery is based on the Australian landscape.