The Cabot Institute's Artist In Residence, Neville Gabie is bringing a wealth of artistic experience to the institute.  His previous projects include Artist In Residence on the Olympic Park London and the Cabot Circus Cantata.

A recent publication produced by the Olympic Park Legacy Company, edited by Simon Grennan and Published by Cornerhouse, documents his 16 month residency on the Olympic Park during construction.

With Leverhulme funding Neville Gabie has recently begun a one year residency within the Cabot Institute as our Artist in Residence. As a practicing artist much of Neville’s previous work touches on issues which closely overlap the concerns of the Cabot Institute. He will introduce himself, his work and his ambitions for his time in Bristol.

With a background in sculpture, Neville Gabie’s practice has always been driven by working in response to specific locations or situations caught in a moment of change. Highly urbanised or distantly remote, his work is a response to the vulnerability of a landscape subject to change. Motivated by a personal need to understand his own sense of place, Gabie’s interest is in establishing a working relationship within a particular community as a means of considering its physical, cultural or emotional geography.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa Neville Gabie did an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London 1986/88.

Previous projects include:

• POSTS published by Penguin Books –  [photographs from this publication have been exhibited in Japan Korea, Germany, Portugal, South Africa and the UK.]
• MOMART Artist in Residence at Tate Liverpool, a four month residency at Halley Research Station, Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey,
• three years as artist in residence on a building site in Bristol – Cabot Circus ‘bs1’ and
• a five year project he initiated and co-curated with the artist Leo Fitzmaurice in a North Liverpool Tower block ‘up in the air’.

He has worked on residencies as far afield as Guangzhou in China - Vitamincreativespace, a remote town in the western Australia at International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia , as well as working on a photographic project with the NGO ‘Right to Play’ and Art Review magazine in Afghan Refugee camps in Pakistan.

He has just completed a residency as Olympic Delivery Authority Artist in Residence on the Olympic Park and a project commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Society in Nottingham – Orchard. 

Currently his is doing a Leverhume Trust research project at the Cabot Institute, Bristol University and has just begun a project in the West Highlands with IOTA [Inverness Old Town Art].  His work is included in the Tate Gallery and Arts Council Collections. 

www.nevillegabie.com
www.oneminuteweek.tumblr.com
www.bs1.org.uk
www.orchardsneinton.co.uk
www.greatlengths2012.org.uk