NEIL FERBER

NEIL FERBER was born in South Wales and  trained at Bulmershe College, Reading. Where he studied sculpture under Dennis Harland and Alf Parks both of whom had left head of
department jobs art Leeds Art College to run a new Art Department at the Reading College.
He then taught for five years in Northamptonshire and Co. Durham, before coming to live at
Bongate Mill in Appleby and establishing a workshop and gallery there.  He has lived and
worked there ever since building up a large body of work most of which is still housed in
Bongate Mill.

His abstract work explores a number of different mediums and has been exhibited at Reading Museum and Gallery, Tullie House and Abbot Hall. He was the recipient of a Northern Arts Award in 1987.

Since 1989 he has also promoted British improvised jazz and now organises the Appleby Jazz Festival which takes place in a field next to Bongate Mill at the end of July.
 
 

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