Neil Moore
A Walkley Award-winning illustrator, artist and art historian who has lived in Italy for over 30 years.
Biography
Born in Oxford, Neil grew up in Melbourne and Canberra and has an Honours degree in Fine Arts from the University of Sydney, where he also taught art history in the Power Department of Fine Arts. Pictured as Neil’s profile photo is his latest self portrait.
In 1979, Neil began a new career as an illustrator, and caricaturist, winning a Walkley Award in 1980 for his work in newspapers. In the following decade he travelled in Europe, fascinated first by France and then Italy, and began to produce original work in the medium of etching. In this period he lived in Berlin, had an artist’s residence in Paris, and exhibited in Germany, France, England and Italy.
Since 1988, Neil has lived in an Umbrian hill town, restoring a medieval ruin into a family home and focusing on his work as a painter. For over 20 years, he has designed and led small group cultural tours to Italy, and he brings this extraordinary wealth of experience as a tour leader to his work. In recent years he has won the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize (2012) and done caricatures for Australia’s news magazine The Monthly.