Neil Massey

Neil Massey (b).1970

After studying photography at Bournemouth Art School, Neil spent the following 15 years based in London working as an editorial photographer. During this time, he travelled the world extensively, commissioned to photograph musicians and youth subcultures.

In 2009, Neil and his wife moved to Vietnam where they lived for six years. They fell in love with Vietnamese culture and its people, witnessing a communist country embracing capitalism and undergoing rapid economic and cultural development. This provided the backdrop to a series of long-term photographic projects; ‘Untitled', 'Bloody Chunks', 'Song', and 'Monobloc' which make up ‘The Vietnam Collection’ (2009-2015). This body of work explores Vietnamese life, in all its raw unadulterated beauty.

In 2020 during the London lockdown whilst Neil was scanning his 20+ year film archive, he found some neon acrylic artworks he painted in the height of his raving days in the early 90’s. Once digitised, he went to work creating a series of artworks he calls KALEIDESCAPES - mixed-media artworks using photography, neon dust / paints and blacklight. To date he has created two bodies of work RAVE ON - inspired by closed eye hallucination, kaleidoscopes, feedback ...

1991-93 - Bournemouth and Poole Art School. HND in Photography.

1988-90 - Berkshire College of Art. ND in Photography.

July.2022 - 'Grown Up In Britain - 100 Years of Teenage Kicks' - Group Show of my Youth Culture work at The Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry

June.2022 - NFT Group Show with my MONOBLOC series with Exchange Art at Solana Hacker House event in London

May.2022 - Photo London at Somerset House showing in a group show with The Museum of Youth Culture

July.2019 - 'MILLENNIUM DAWN' 2 Simultaneous Solo Shows, Boxpark, Shoreditch + Croydon. London

April. 2019 - An Ode To: THE BRITISH TELEPHONE BOX'. Solo Public Street Art Show, Shoreditch, London.

Nov.2017 - 'Art On A Postcard' Secret Auction and Group Show at Unit London Art Gallery.

Dec.2016 - Group Show with 'Trace' with Photo-Forum at The Printspace Gallery, London. UK.

Feb.2016 - Solo show with ‘Bloody Chunks’ at Boxpark in Shoreditch, London. UK.

Dec.2015 - Group Show 'Lost in Music' at The Village Underground, London.

Oct.2014 - Solo show with ‘Bloody Chunks’ in Saigon, Vietnam.