Portfolio | Luan Nel

Swell ll

SWELL II | My contribution to the Spier Light Art Exhibition 2019-2020. Curated by Jay Pather and Vaughn Sadie This living room from the past,...

The Poseidon Adventure: S. O. S

“The impact of social media on my work has been profound. As my proficiency on social media sites grew with the use of certain visual-centred...

#luansview

For the past three years I have continuously taken an Instagram of the sunrise as seen from my studio in Cape Town. Having worked with...

SWELL

I tend to work in a postmodern paradigm. I often lift. My sources vary. I do not choose to mine only one thought but multiple...

Mappa Mavis

Mappa Mavis This large reverse glass painting and mixed media work was made for the group exhibition EMPIRE, curated by Emma Van Der Merwe at...

The Poseidon Adventure

A ‘project’ that roughly started in 2013. The title is lifted from the 1972 film but only acts to dramatise and to highlight the tendency...

Twitter

‘Twitter’ is the latest exhibition by Luan Nel, at the Everard Read Gallery in Cape Town from 3 to 16 April 2013. ...

Black Swan

‘Black Swan’ was exhibited at Dawid’s Choice Gallery in Johannesburg in March 2013. Detail: “The black swan theory or theory of...

SWALLOW

Entitled ‘SWALLOW’, Luan Nel’s most recent body of work presents the viewer with a ‘flock’ of prints of his watercolour birds. Painted with a lightness...

Aviary

‘Aviary’ was the first solo-exhibition where Luan dealt with the theme and subject of birds and birdlife. James Tates poem ‘The Blue Booby’ provides an entry...

Juncture

In 2010 Nel participated in a three person exhibition ‘Juncture’ along with Nigel Mullins and Tanya Poole. In this exhibition Nel furthered his investigation of...

Silent Exit

The genesis of Luan Nel’s latest exhibition at Art on Paper Gallery is a couple of one gallon tins of wall paint dating from the...

Muse

‘Muse’. A group exhibition of portraits. Artisits were asked to do a portrait of somebody in the South African ‘artworld’. The exhibition was held at The...

Smallville, SA

Johannesburg-based Luan Nel’s first solo exhibition in KwaZulu Natal entitled ‘Smallville SA’, met with great acclaim. Nel bases his works on...

Hobby Heroes

In Hobby Heroes Luan Nel appropriates the miniscule plastic figures from specialist train set kits, so beloved of the Hobbyists for whom trains, and anything...

SASOL New Signatures

Still Life

A joint exhibition with Hentie Van Der Merwe at The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. ‘Rose’ Oil on canvas, 50cm x 70cm ‘Holmese Poirot’ Oil...

Silence/Violence

KAPOK/WIND This installation was part of the project Silence/Violence curated by Greg Streak in Nieuw Bethesda and Durban respectively. Kapok/Wind was part of the Silence...

8989km Every Time

With this body of work I explored the concept home, specifically my sense of home/place whilst living in a foreign country. During my two years...

SASOL New Signatures Revisited

This work was first exhibited on The Sasol New Signatues exhibition at the KKNK in Oudtshoorn. It was curated by Clive van den Berg....

Onthou en Vergeet

Onthou: Vergeet: Vergeet (detail): For the Exhibition ‘Lustwarande, Pleasure Garden’ in Tillburg, The Netherlands. Curated by Chris Driessen and Marianne Brouwer. This work is an...

Urban Futures Project

This work was part of the Urban Futures Project in Johannedburg, 2000. It involves a bronze sculpture of a pigeon like to ones found...

Dutch Landscape: The Sea

Set of 5 photographs, done in collaboration with Ilya Rabinovich. These were taken on the Dutch coastline, behind the seawalls, facing the North Sea.

Kisheniev-Johannesburg

This project ‘Kisheniev-Johannesburg’ was a collaboration with the Moldovan-Israeli artist Ilya Rabinovich. In 1999 we did two journeys together to our respective places of earliest memory....

Sad Songs

‘Sad Songs’ is compilation of various artists’ ‘sad’ songs… chosen from pop and other music. Compiled/curated by Bojan Sarcevic.

Lost

This is an installation that involves the painting of miniature figures at the bottom of the wall touching the floor. The space should be as...

Paper

In his solo exhibition ‘Paper’ at the Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town, Nel painted on pieces of paper gathered throughout his life....

Taking Stock

‘Pa se Tent’ form the exhibition Taking Stock at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1997. “My work is a white Teflon inflatable, entitled Pa se...

Centre

A one-night exhibition of murals in the disused 6th floor parking lot of The Carltong Centre in the centre of Johannesburg.

Absa Ateliers

Lumps of Metal

This ‘Lumps of Metal’ project was first exhibited in The Johannesburg Planetarium. Both as objects placed whithin and amongst their permanent exhibition of telescopes and Astronomical...