About
Neil Bottle was born in Kent and studied BA Printed Textiles at Middlesex University and MA Digital Design at University for the Creative Arts. After he graduated in 1989 he set up a studio in London and a few years later moved to a larger studio in Kent. With the New Designers Exhibition Printed Textiles Award and support from the Crafts Council Setting Up Grant he quickly began to establish a successful niche market of international buyers and collectors of his work.
Neil’s work has been acquired by major collections around the world including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Crafts Council Collection in London and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York. Work has been commissioned as one off installation pieces for private clients and companies such as Smith and Nephew, Nortel, Hilton Luxury Hotels and P&O.
Consultancy projects include designing exclusive ranges of accessories for the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum, the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and the Royal Academy of Art in London as well as the Guggenheim Museum New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania in the USA. Work is exhibited internationally and collections have been designed for stores such as Liberty, Harrods, Browns, Fortnum & Mason, Neiman Marcus, Holt Renfrew and Bergdorf Goodman.
Neil’s work has been acquired by major collections around the world including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Crafts Council Collection in London and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York. Work has been commissioned as one off installation pieces for private clients and companies such as Smith and Nephew, Nortel, Hilton Luxury Hotels and P&O.
Consultancy projects include designing exclusive ranges of accessories for the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum, the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and the Royal Academy of Art in London as well as the Guggenheim Museum New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania in the USA. Work is exhibited internationally and collections have been designed for stores such as Liberty, Harrods, Browns, Fortnum & Mason, Neiman Marcus, Holt Renfrew and Bergdorf Goodman.
Digital production methods are often associated with mass production however my approach is more akin to that of a painter, building up complex surfaces and layers of imagery. My creative outputs are carefully crafted, honed, reworked and refined digital one-off and limited edition pieces that demand fluency in the complex language of our digital world."
Neil Bottle
