Neil is a self-taught visual artist and has been working professionally in the arts industry in South Africa since 2007 in various galleries and art establishments. He is one of the founding members of the Dead Bunny Society (March 2015). In 2015 he was awarded the Ampersand Fellowship and completed the residency in New York City, NY (February 2016) with the assistance of an artist grant from the Eduoardo Villa Foundation. His work has been included in group exhibitions around the world including Berlin, San Francisco, Luxembourg, and in various galleries and art festivals in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Oudtshoorn, Potchefstroom, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth in South Africa. His last solo exhibition titled “new language” was held at Fried Contemporary in Pretoria (April 2018). His works have been included and sold in numerous charitable art auctions at ABSA and for the MAD Leadership Foundation / Valley Flair Art Auction held both locally in Franschoek, Cape Town and abroad at the 8th Annual USA Golf Classic & Gala Dinner at Liberty National Golf Club, Jersey City. His works are held in prominent private collections including the Jack Ginsberg Collection in South Africa and in various private collections internationally, as well as the corporate ABSA permanent collection in Johannesburg. He is currently working as a full-time artist and is one of the council members of the newly founded Illume international gallery which is a non-profit web based gallery run by artists for artists and which was founded by Harriette Lawler (New Mexico, USA) in January 2019.