Artist working with modern media, teacher, born in Düsseldorf, West Germany, who studied at Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland, 1985–7; Goldsmiths’ College, 1987–90; Chelsea College of Art and Design, 1991–2; and Tower Hamlets College, for digital image creation/manipulation, 1996–7; notable teachers included Jon Thompson, Chris Fisher and Avis Newman. She held a Pepinière Residency, Budapest, Yugoslavia, 1993; and a Henry Moore Sculpture Fellowship, Spike Island, Bristol, and a Senior Research Fellowship, Cardiff School of Art & Design, both 1998; also taught at Cardiff, Chelsea and Goldsmiths’. Neudecker won 1st Prize for Sculpture, 7th International Biennial of Sculpture and Drawing, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 1997.
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Group shows included Light, Richard Salmon Gallery, 1997; Richard Wentworth’s Thinking Aloud, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge, and tour, 1998; Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne, Australia, 1999; Blue: borrowed and new, launch exhibition, New Art Gallery, Walsall, 2000; and Frozen, Site Gallery, Sheffield, 2002–3. Among her solo exhibitions were Lotta Hammer Gallery, 1997; The Halted Traveller, Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway, 1998; Never Eat Shredded Wheat, I-Space, Krannert Art Museum, Chicago, America, 1999; Until Now, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, and tour, 2000; Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff and tour, 2003; and Tate St Ives, 2004, featuring her landscapes, often evocations of mountain ranges, made in fibreglass resin airbrushed with acrylic and placed in glass cases. The Arts Council, British Council and the Saatchi Collection hold her work.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
