Indira Neville was born on 1973 and is a New Zealand comics artist, community organiser, musician and educationalist.
18 Facts About Indira Neville
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Indira Neville is notable for her work in the Hamilton-based comics collective Oats Comics, her own long running serial comic Nice Gravy and in recent times taking a prominent role in the promotion and recognition of New Zealand women's comics through her association with the Three Words anthology.
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Indira Neville is notable for her work as an educationalist.
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Indira Neville was a CORE Education eFellow, a winner of a Microsoft Innovative Teacher Award for her teaching, and a former principal of a primary school.
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Indira Neville is an active performer, and is currently fronting the Auckland band The Biscuits.
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Indira Neville became recognised for her educational work in ICT and eLearning, and was principal of Mulberry Grove School, on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.
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Indira Neville has appeared in numerous New Zealand and Australian exhibitions and anthologies, including Oats, Dad and Tracy, My Soiled Sample, Pictozine, Tiny Peeks, Blood and Thunder, My Life as a Mega-rich Bombshell, and Loser Gurrl.
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Indira Neville began drawing mini comics, both solo and in collaboration with fellow Oats creators Clayton Noone and Stefan Indira Neville, her brother.
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Indira Neville contributed to Oats collective publications, including Dad and Tracy and The Hood, as well as their exhibitions.
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Indira Neville started her most notable solo comic Nice Gravy while a member of Oats Comics collective.
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From 1994 Indira Neville wrote and drew the serial comic Nice Gravy which ran for fifteen issues.
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In mid-2014 Indira Neville joined up with New Zealand graphic novelists, writers and fellow comics artists Rachel Fenton and Sarah Laing.
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Indira Neville was later principal of Mulberry Grove School on isolated Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, a primary school with a strong focus on ICT and initiator of the Great Barrier Island ICT professional development cluster.
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On this blog Indira Neville adapts an ancient Japanese drawing exercise in which an artist attempts to illustrate 100 demons.
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Indira Neville posted cartoons used in the Mulberry Grove School newsletter that depict strange beasts inspired by the things she found vexing and fascinating in her job as principal.
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Indira Neville has been involved in performing music alongside her comics and education activities.
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Indira Neville currently plays guitar and does vocals for The Biscuits, and has played a number of gigs including several at the Audio Foundation.
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Indira Neville was a member of Thee Ideal Gus, which held Yoko Ono and Eddie Murphy in equal high regard.