NELL SCHOFIELD
Nell is a NIDA graduate who, since 1997, has worked as a writer/on-air presenter with the subscription television channel Showtime. In 2007/08 she was the film reviewer for Channel 9′s flagship program Sunday. On CNN International she appeared as the Australasian presenter of The Art Club and Hot Spots. For five years she worked as a reporter for ABC TV’s weekly arts program Review and her voice is still heard on that channel’s popular program Media Watch.
In 2010 Nell produced, directed and presented Film Crème, an hour long documentary on contemporary French cinema which was screened on the Ovation Channel. In the summer of 2009/2010 she curated her first major public exhibition, ‘Wax On’ for the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery.
The driving force behind the guerilla art collective ‘The Stoked’, Nell has produced several video works including Chasing the President (2009) featuring Jose Ramos Horta, Hell (nipple rash) (2009 Hazelhurst Regional Gallery), Les Deux Redux (Bondi Short Shorts Film Festival 2010), I ♥ NYC Cycleways (2010 Monstrosity Gallery), Sea Hags Ahoy! (Bondi Short Shorts Film Festival 2011) and Brokeback Mountain Bikes (Audience Choice, Queer Fruits Film Festival 2011; Honorable Mention, Shockfest 2011) .
Nell has been a Board Member of Object – Australian Centre for Craft and Design, and currently sits on the Board of the Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company. She is also one of Al Gore’s Climate Project presenters, the 2010 City of Sydney Cycling Ambassador and the media officer for the Running Stream Water Users Association Inc.