NEAL VAUGHAN: contemporary art
Winterreise - Winter Journey
Winterreise - Winter Journey
NEAL VAUGHAN ART: CONTEMPORARY ART, EVENTS PLANNING, WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP
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Welcome to the website for Neal Vaughan, a contemporary artist living and working in South London. Neal Vaughan is an artist, experienced visual arts teacher, the founder of Carshalton Artists, project manager of arts festivals, creator of short films, facilitator of community engagement workshops and events promotor. On this website you will find examples of artwork, links to events and exhibitions and booking for sales and workshops. Thank you for visiting.
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THE LATEST NEWS, EVENTS, WORKSHOPS AND EXHIBITIONS. JOIN IN AS ART IS FOR ALL
THE RIVER. A SHORT FILM
PREMIERE: JUNE 2026 (part of the Carshalton Festival)
This animated and live action film acts as a library and celebratin of the River Wandle chalk stream in South London.
This short film combines recorded walks from pleinair artist Neal Vaughan, written memories from the community and creative responses of visual, spoken word and musical artists.The film weaves this influences together in dymanic animated film sequences and carefully edited location footage. Expect anything from; animated charcoal drawings, digital collages, poetry and techno music!
There will be a Q and A with the artist as part of the night.
The River Drawn/installation of charcoal and pastel on paper/ boxed.
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The dedicated page for this project is at: 'The Wandle' flim page
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THE RIVER. A LONG DRAW
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​A 10meter long drawing 'The Wandle Trail' with accompanying video work in collaboration with Dominic Hemy. This is an exciting new installation piece, using drone footage and maps to record the Wandle Trail. The Wandle trail is a 20km (12.5 mile) river trail that follows the route of the River Wandle from Croydon to the Thames at Wandsworth. It encompasses the heritage, flora and fauna of this rare chalk stream in the heart of some of south London’s most industrialised landscape.​​​​
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The dedicated page for this project is at: 'The Wandle' flim page
RECENT EVENTS: SCHUBERT'S WINTERREISE
​​​​​Schubert’s Winter Journey re-imagined for cello, piano and visuals
Liz Andrews - cello; Maureen Cooper - piano; Neal Vaughan – video artist.
over 100 people joined us on a winter journey in the last year of Schubert’s life - he was editing the last part of Winterreise on his deathbed in 1828. It is a story of passion and unrequited love, set against the harsh winter landscape of the early 19th century countryside.
Liz Andrews was accompantied by Maureen Cooper on piano and projections were supplied by Neal Vaughan.
The projections showcased the charcoal drawings Neal has built up ovger the years, with some new specially commisioned pieces.
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​Video of the night to follow.
RECENT EVENTS: 'MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE
LIVE MULTIMEDIA EVENTS WITH ART AND MUSIC
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The first event with this band was in October 2023 and since that we have grown and brought together live electronic music, projections and live drawing. It was great fun to produce thee projected films for this, with four double exposures and live drawing on the night.​ For the next events we brought together new videos in collaboration with with musicians, projected and manipulated live during the gigs.
You can see all our videos on Instagram
RECENT EVENTS: 'TALKING HEADS LIVING HISTORIES'
Three films on The London Boough of Sutton's past present and future
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This video project that has captured the memories and imagination of the London Borough of Sutton and its residents. A three video series focuses on Sutton Then”, “Now” and “Next” and fuses together interviews of residents with related images, text and sounds bringing Sutton’s history alive through video interviews, archival imagery, and Artificial Intelligence.
This innovative production is commissioned by London Borough of Sutton’s Sutton STEAMs Ahead, a project funded by a Cultural Impact Award as part of the Mayor of London’s London Borough of Culture programme and The National Heritage Lottery Fund.
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CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL THREE FILMS
RECENT EVENTS: 'WANDLE' The first solo show by Neal Vaughan
June 24th/25th and July 1st/2nd 11am-5pm
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My first solo exhibition and the launch of a brand new gallery in Carshalton was a huge success. If you are interested in any of the work from the show or commissions of similar work please contact me.
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The new works that were on display explored my ongoing residency of the River Wandle and also showcased recent large charcoal works and new a video piece 'Talking Heads, Hidden Histories.'​ This exhibition was part of Carshalton Artists Open Studios 2023
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​CLICK HERE FOR THE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
RECENT EVENTS: STORIES FROM THE SHEDS: MINI BEAST WORKSHOP
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150 people joined me to learn about the wonderful Wandle and had fun exploring the natural sciences, art and technology. Together you made simple stamp prints using foodstuffs such as limes, tomatoes, cucumbers and lemons. We then added to them to make our own personal insect artworks and named them using a fun scientific insect name generator! Visitors took the work home with them but also we photographed them and I'm now busy inserting them into on-going animation project on the River Wandle. The animation will appear soon!
This project was made possible by Sutton Council's Cultural Services and was part of Sutton Steams Ahead, funded by the Mayors Cultural Impact Award.