Facebook: Neroli Henderson: Artivist & Fine Quilter
E-mail: neroli1@eiloren.com.au
Neroli Henderson’s poignant and sometimes controversial works explore the human spirit’s need for control, along with our struggle and tenacity in stunning detail. Working in mixed media with a textile focus Henderson employs the contrasting textures of fine fabrics, paint, photography, and stitch to create pointed political and/or social commentary.
The artworks are aimed at provoking conversation and making the viewer question often long held beliefs. While beautiful to view it’s the stories the pieces extoll that make Henderson’s artwork so powerful.
Henderson’s work is regularly curated and juried into exhibitions, and she has won many awards worldwide. Her work has been published in dozens of publications internationally and is housed in private and commercial collections.
A former editor of Textile Fibre Forum Neroli has a Bachelor of Design and worked as an Art Director and freelance designer until she focused primarily on fine art after an upper back fracture necessitated a change in career path. It’s this injury and resulting convalescence that has influenced the theme of many of her artworks. These themes have evolved over time into pieces looking at broader social structure, equality, and recently more abstract representations of the ephemeral nature of our semblance of control.
Ameliorate #3 (Tenacity)
Retail Price: Private Collection
Dimensions: 35.5×35.5 (H x W)
Statement: The Ameliorate series shows the cycle of depression. The first piece illustrates the isolation of depression, the second, anxiety and fear, the third the tenacity we need to be able to keep striving for a normal life and the fouth the freedom we feel once the depression has passed.
Awards: Vic Quilters Second Place, Miniature.
Soul Scars (Women’s Words)
Retail Price: AUD$1600
Dimensions: 65 x 96cm (H x W)
Statement: Throughout their lives women encounter phrases aimed at their gender. Innocuous or cruel and vulgar, each leaves their mark. We often think of the words on the right when considering those things most hurtful, however I propose it’s the oft well intentioned sentences on the left which are most insidious.
Exhibitions: Stitch Fetish LA, CrossXpollinatioN
Covididiots 2020
Retail Price: AUD$1600
Dimensions: 90 x 108cm (H x W)
Statement: Featuring words heard, read or thought by Henderson during the pandemic that triggered anxiety, frustration and a sense of helplessness. The Pandemic showcased the rise of misinformation, entitlement and a disengagement with our social responsibility as never before.
Exhibitions: Confined (Curated by Alojz Babic, Linden New Art Public Art Space), Art at the Thomas (Conversations), CrossXpollination ‘Impermanence’
Emerge
Retail Price: AUD$1600
Dimensions: 92x92cm (H x W)
Statement:
Out of the darkness,
into the light.
We must push ever forward
the future a mystery.
If I’d have known a decade ago
how good life would be now,
would it have been easier?
The world’s only constant
Is change.
This piece features a secondary image in light reflective thread
Exhibitions: AQIP, Conversations (Art At the Thomas)
