Neil Powell is an Ambasciatore for il Terzo Paradiso - Fondazione Pistoletto and Emeritus Professor of Norwich University of the Arts. in 2023 he co-founded L'Associazione dell'Albero dei Fichi in Parma, Italy, a not-for-profit foundation to promote cultural and creative exchange. Powell previously held the office of Pro Vice-Chancellor and Chair of Art & Design Eduction at NUA. He is known for his work with public and private sector creative arts bodies in a range of capacities, as curator, artist and organiser. A former Henry Moore Scholar, his experience of art education was influenced by artists and teachers such as Phillip King, Helen Chadwick, Richard Deacon, Shelagh Cluett, Eduardo Paolozzi and Roger Ackling.Since 2014 he has contributed a monthly column on arts and culture for Wall Street International, is a guest columnist for Arts and Museum Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail. He has made numerous appearances on national television and radio, including BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. His work features in the Imago Mundi – Art Theorema #1 Benetton collection which was shown at Salone degli Incanti in Trieste, Italy (2018). He also worked with Claudio Parmiggiani on ’Earth Axis’ at Houghton Hall, (2021). In 2019, Powell curated an exhibition of the work of the late Sir Anthony Caro, Iron in the Soul, to coincide with the 2019 Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Powell has worked with Arts Council Collections and Hayward Gallery Touring alongside commercial galleries such as Simon Lee (London, New York, Hong Kong), Karsten Schubert and Annely Juda, London. He is a curator with over 100 shows to his credit over the past three decades. He has previously been involved in the curator selection for the Hayward Open Curatorial and was closely associated with the 7th edition of the UK’s major survey exhibition, the British Art Show.Powell has written and exhibited extensively on the international stage, including a major showing of Art & Language at MoMA PS1, New York, curated with Professor Michael Corris, and has curated and organised shows by Claude Cahun, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Tess, Jaray, Michael Craig-Martin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst, Alison Wilding, Alfredo Jaar, John Craske, Roger Ackling, Ana Maria Pacheco and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Other projects include the ‘Territories’ exhibitions at Lust and the Apple, Edinburgh (March 2019) and Collaboratorium I’m Aufbau am Moritzplatz (CLB), Berlin (April 2019), Wright Gallery, TAMU, Texas, USA (March 2021). Born Manchester, England 1961. Based in Norfolk, England and Emilia-Romagna, Italy.