Recent Biographical Information.
Neil Webb is a practicing artist based in Sheffield working predominantly with sound. His practice has moved from painting to include sound installation, video, performance, curation and CD releases under the name bocman.
2003 saw performances by bocman at Sheffield Hallam University, The MAXIS Festival , Leeds, the annual Sonic Artists Network Conference in Sheffield and the release of the CD Somewhere Nowhere. He also curated the events Sounds Recorded for an Empty Nightclub as part of Sheffield 03 and Host 4 : Cinema in 2004. In 2004 Webb's work continued to develop through collaboration including his work with Host Artists Group. He has produced a range of audio and audio-visual installations, including Scramble, a collaboration with artist Michael Day.
In 2005 Webb undertook a residency at Hull Time Based Arts creating the installation and CD, The Inside Underneath. He also completed a long standing project, Solaristics inspired by Stanislaw Lem's book and Andrei Tarkovsky's film Solaris.
He was selected for an artists residency, Signal-to-Noise Ratio at the Tower Atelier in Neuhausen Germany. During the residency he created two new works, a multi-channel sound installation titled Across the Field and a video installation titled Heaven up Here.
During 2006 Webb has created a new sound installation Invisible Resonance 2 for the Consortium Gallery in Amsterdam, screened two video works, Slow Motion Static and Tide Time at the Sound Practice conference at Goldsmith's University London. The video work Enter the Underworld has also been screened in Liverpool as part of the 37 Seconds BBC big screen project.
The bocman project has continued with performances in Holland and England and the release of the CD Motion Static.
He has recently recorded and edited the audio tracks for the installation Doodah by Carl von Weiler for the Storey Gallery in Lancaster.Future projects for 2007 include making a multi-channel audio visual installation in collaboration with Ron Wright and making the multi-channel sound installation The Stars in Us All for Bloc Space in Sheffield.
www.axisartists.org.uk/artist/neilwebb
Qualifications and training
2005 MA Fine Art (Distinction), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
1998 Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, University of Reading, Reading
1995 BA Hons Fine Art (First), Kent institute of Art and Design, Canterbury
Residencies
2005 The Inside Underneath, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull
2005 Signal-To-Noise-Ratio, Towers Atelier Neuhausen, Germany
Projects
2004 Undercurrents
2004 Host 4: Cinema
2003 Sounds Recorded for an Empty Nightclub
2003 Somewhere Nowhere
Selected solo exhibitions
2004 'Solaristics' live performance, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
2003 'Sounds Recorded for an Empty Nightclub' audio playback, Sheffield Art 03, Corporation Nightclub, Sheffield
2003 'Little Star' audio presentation, Sonic Arts Network Annual Conference, Sheffield
2003 'Bocman and Whoop' live performance, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
2003 'Little Star' audio presentation, MAXIS Festival, Leeds
2003 'Hinterland' live performance, MAXIS Festival, Leeds
2002 Power of Speech - Installation, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
2000 Pin Skating, Philips Gallery, Taunton
1999 Searching, Strode Theatre, Street
1996 Ego Versus The Elements, Bridgwater Arts Centre, Bridgwater
Selected group exhibitions
2005 Pop: Fine Art MA Degree Show, National Centre for Popular Music, Sheffield
2004 Sonic Network Analysis, Klein Works Gallery, Chicago
2004 'Incedentals' and 'Sweet Nothings', Bloc Space, Sheffield
2004 Host 4: Cinema, Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
2004 Slow Wave Sleep, Host 3, Sheffield
2004 Sonic Network Analysis, Stasis Space, Chicago
2004 Scramble, Main Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University
2003 FF, Tactile Bosch Arts Space
2002 Seismic, Great Western Studios, London
2002 Host, Amp Studios, Sheffield
2001 East of Eden, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
2000 Art At The Interface of Science and Technology, New Greenham Art Centre, Newbury
1999 Abstract Art, Maybon Gallery, Crewkerne
1999 Young Artists Exhibition, Ashridge Management College
1998 Untitled Exhibition, University of Reading
1998 Untitled Exhibition, Connaught Brown, London
1998 Ida Branson Memorial, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield
1996 Medicine Bar Show, Custard Factory, Birmingham
1995 UK Graduate Exhibition, Candid Gallery, London
1995 Inside Out, Cubitt Gallery, London
Web links - gallery/work
www.hostoffice.org.uk
www.bocman.com