From http://www.neilpardington.com/home(Accessed 16 March 2012)

While still studying, Neil was a founding member of City Group, making a series of experimental films and photographic installations including Pier, and North-South Project, which was selected for the National Art Gallery’s 1986 survey exhibition ‘Content/Context’. Neil’s solo exhibitions at public galleries include Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, City Gallery Wellington, Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui, Artspace Auckland and Millennium Art Gallery Blenheim. Neil has participated in many group exhibitions at major institutions, including ‘Puā Wai o Ngāi Tahu’, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, ‘Public/Private Tumatanui/Tumataiti: The 2nd Auckland Triennial’, Auckland Art Gallery, ‘Telecom Prospect 2004’, City Gallery Wellington, ‘Toi Te Papa: Art of a Nation’, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Wellington and 'Mortality', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Melbourne. In November 1999 'The Vault: Neil Pardington' opened at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. The exhibition is accompanied by a major publication. 'The Vault: Neil Pardington' is touring throughout New Zealand until 2012. Neil exhibits regularly at Suite Wellington, Jonathan Smart Gallery Christchurch, McNamara Gallery Photography Whanganui and Nadene Milne Gallery Arrowtown. He has recently joined GrantPirrie Gallery in Sydney.

Neil is a director of MAP Film Productions. He has produced, written and directed a number of short films, including Losing Sleep, Chinese Whispers and The Dig, selected for screening at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994. In 2003 Neil produced the feature film For Good with director Stuart McKenzie.

Neil is also the founding director of Eyework Design. Eyework has been the recipient of New Zealand’s top design awards including the Designer’s Institute of New Zealand’s Stringer Award, and Best Book at the Spectrum Print Book Design Awards. In 2004 Eyework merged with Base Two, where Neil now works as a creative director.

Neil studied at Elam School of Fine Arts and has a BFA from University of Auckland. He is of Kai Tahu, Kati Mamoe, Kati Waewae Māori and Pākeha descent and lives in Wellington Aoteroa New Zealand.

Chronology:

1962
Born Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand.
Kāi Tāhu, Kāti Mamoi, Kāti Waewae, Pākehā.


Selected Solo exhibitions
1986 Local Anxieties
33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington, NZ

1987

New Histories for Secondary Cities
33 1/3 Gallery, Wellington, NZ

1989 Something Stirs in the Heart of the City
Artspace, Auckland, NZ

2000 Elsewhere
City Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

2001 Skylight
Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, NZ
Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

2003 Hikoi
Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

Vacation
Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington, NZ

2004 Making Something out of Nothing
Millennium Gallery, Blenheim, NZ

2005 From The Clinic
Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

The Clinic / Te Whare o Rangiora
Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington, NZ

2006 Interiors
McNamara Gallery Photography, Whanganui, NZ

2007 The Vault (part one)
Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

Neil Pardington: Rehutai Series
Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu,
Christchurch, NZ

2008 The Vault (part two)
McNamara Gallery Photography, Whanganui, NZ

The Vault (part three)
Suite, Wellington, NZ

2009 The Wet Room

Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

From The Vault

Auckland Festival of Photography
Snowhite Gallery
Auckland, NZ

The Vault (part four)

Suite, Wellington, NZ

The Vault

Nadene Milne Gallery
Arrowtown, NZ

The Vault: Neil Pardington

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Christchurch, NZ

2010 Neil Pardington: The Vault

GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, Australia

The Vault: Neil Pardington
Otago Museum, Dunedin, NZ

2011 The Vault: Neil Pardington
City Gallery, Wellington
Wellington, NZ

Te Whare o Kāi Tāhu
Suite, Wellington, NZ

Contemporary Mythologies, Selected Works: 1998–2005
Suite City Gallery, Wellington, NZ


Selected Group exhibitions
1985 Anzart ’85
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ

1986 Content/Context
National Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ

Auckland/Halifax Exchange
Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Canada

1987 New Films/New Zealand
Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan

1989 Art Too
National Library Gallery, Wellington, NZ

1990 United Banking Group/
Sarjeant Gallery Photographic Award
Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

1992 Scenes From Real and Imaginary Lives
City Gallery, Wellington, NZ

1998 Media(tion): New Zealand Photographies
Blair Wakefield Exhibitions, Wellington, NZ

1998 Visa Art Award
City Gallery, Wellington, NZ

1999 1999 Visa/Wallace Art Award
City Gallery, Wellington, NZ

2001 Waikato Art Awards
Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, NZ

2002 Waikato Art Awards
Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, NZ

2003 The Caravan
McNamara Gallery Photography, Wanganui, NZ & Pataka Museum of Arts & Cultures, Porirua, NZ

Lightwork
Pataka Porirua Museum of Arts & Cultures, Porirua, NZ

Te Puawai O Ngai Tahu
Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu
Christchurch, NZ

Waikato Art Awards
Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, NZ


2004 Public Private / Tumatanui Tumataiti The 2nd Auckland Triennial
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland NZ

Telecom Prospect 2004
City Gallery Wellington, Wellington NZ

Recent Photographs
Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington NZ

2005 2 Blair Street Opening
Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington NZ

Photo–London 2005 (with McNamara Gallery Photography)
London, UK

Verbatim: Revelation to Oblivion
Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland (2005) and National Library Gallery, Wellington (2006)

2006 Triple Candy
Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

2007 Four by Ten: Forty Years of Gifts & Acquisitions at the Hocken
(1966 –2006) Hocken Collections Dunedin

Opening Exhibition
Bartley + Company Art, Wellington, NZ

Pakeha Now!
The Suter Te Aratoi Whakatu, Nelson, NZ

Of Deities or Mortals
Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu
Christchurch, NZ

2008 Kura Kura Ngai Tahu
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ

Wunderbox
Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu
Christchurch, NZ

2009 Unpacking My Library

Te Tuhi, Auckland, NZ

Animal Farm, Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad

Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua
Whanganui, NZ

Creature Discomforts

Suter Art Gallery
Nelson, NZ

Snare / Mahanga
Christchurch Festival of the Arts
Canterbury Museum
Christchurch, NZ

2010 Mortality
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Melbourne, Australia

Mercury Rising

Jonathan Smart Gallery
Christchurch, NZ

Pink Flamingos

Suite City Gallery, Wellington, NZ