Neil Haddon’s painting Vestigial (40) has been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) for their Contemporary Art collection.

Vestigial was part of the Stranded exhibition at Criterion Gallery last year.

Neil was the winner of this year’s Glover Prize, Australia’s most prestigious landscape art prize. His next exhibition at Criterion Gallery, Broken, will open on 11 September and run until 11 October.

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Neil Haddon
Vestigial (40) 2007
High gloss household enamel paint on aluminium

The Hydro Tasmania Consulting Commission for a public art work by artists John Vella and Stephen Hurrel has now been completed. The sculpture was officially launched in June. It can be seen at 89 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge. The major public artwork was commissioned by Hydro Tasmania Consulting through the arts@work Corporate Art Scheme.  See our post in September 2007 for further details.

John Vella and Stephen Hurrel
Scape, 2008
Installation view