Neil Musson

In 2012, Neil established a collaborative arts practice which works internationally to produce site specific art for public spaces..

Neil’s work responds to conversations and inhabited landscapes. He creates experimental interventions which affect the way people behave. Those who experience and reflect on the work become the ongoing and ever-changing expression of that work and, therefore, the finished work is an unfinished conversation.

Projects are inspired by, and sited in, specific locations with an emphasis on the people who occupy those spaces. This socially engaged practice moves between sculpture, soundscape, film, performance, interviews and archive. Installations explore social constructs in contemporary society and question our definition of belonging.

Neil is interested in the notion that art holds the power of 'intermediate negotiation’, existing in spaces between established opinions and cultural boundaries. It becomes a unique form of exchange where there is no agenda to sway or judge opinion one way or another. The exploration of this hinterland as a methodology requires open-minded collaboration, which often results in the manifestation of an action being more valuable than the physicality of something produced.

Recent awards won

Best Public Space Artwork Studio (Southern Enterprise Award), 2022

Thamesmead Open International Art Competition, 2020

Babraham Institute Collaborative Arts Prize, 2019

Compton Verney Art Gallery Award for Site Specific Installation, 2018

European City of Culture Public Engagement Art Award, 2018

Civic Trust Award for ‘Light Lines’, 2017

Areen Design Airport Light Sculpture Award, 2015