Nel’s work is housed in numerous public, private and corporate collections, and has been represented in various group and solo shows.

1970 New Signatures Competition, Pretoria
1973 New Signatures Competition, Pretoria
1978 Visions 78, University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, Stellenbosch
1980 Still Life 1980, University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, Stellenbosch
1991 Cape Town Triennial, National Museum, Cape Town / Port Elizabeth / Durban / Johannesburg / Pretoria / Pietermaritzburg / Kimberley / Bloemfontein
1996 Gallery Martha Human, Brits
1992 Kempton Park/Tembisa Fine Arts Merit Award, Kempton Park
1993 Momentum Art 1993, Pretoria
1993 Pretoria Painters and Sculptors 1963-1993, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
1994-1998 Kempton Park/Tembisa Fine Arts Merit Award, Kempton Park
1995 We the People - United for the Global Environment, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
1996 From Feather Duster to the Sublime - A Look at Women’s Art in Pretoria, Open Window Contemporary Art Gallery, Pretoria
1996 Through the Eye of a Rainbow, University of Pretoria, Pretoria
1997 Executive Art, S.A. Association of Arts Gallery, Pretoria
2000-2001 Kempton Park / Tembisa Fine Arts Merit Award, Kempton Park
2001 Femina 2001, S.A. Association of Arts Gallery, Pretoria
2001 Women of Tshwane, SASOL Art Museum, Stellenbosch
2003-2007 Kempton Park / Tembisa Fine Arts Merit Award, Kempton Park
2003 Femina 2003, S.A. Association of Arts Gallery, Pretoria
2012 Me II, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria
2015 Sanlam Portrait Award Top 40, Cape Town / Johannesburg / Durban
2017 Not a Portrait, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville
2020 Women who Read are Dangerous, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville
2021 Sanlam Portrait Award Top 40, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville

University of Stellenbosch
University of the Free State
University of Pretoria
Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein
Pretoria Art Museum
The Gauteng Provincial Government (formerly Transvaal Provincial Government)