Newman wins Dominik Mersch Gallery Award

Andrew Newman is the inaugural winner of the Dominik Mersch Gallery Award. Newman was selected from the Sydney College of the Arts 2008 postgraduate degree show, which included about 50 artists. As part of the annual award, Dominik Mersch Gallery will provide an exhibition space to show the work of one or more postgraduate candidates from SCA. This offers a previously unprecedented opportunity for graduates to display their work professionally.
“Offering an exhibition space to show their works, is the best way to support young and promising artists,”‘ says Dominik Mersch.
Newman’s six-channel video installation Attempt to fill an empty space (Performance Anxiety) was selected to be exhibited at Dominik Mersch Gallery during the exhibition Out of Their Comfort Zone.
The exhibition opens January 21 and runs until March 7.

About

Andrew Newman is a media artist and writer based in Sydney. In 2008 he completed his Master of Visual Arts at the Sydney College of the Arts researching the impact of new communication technologies on the art of writing love letters. Newman’s art practice unravels what he considers the conflict between the two desires for the other, drawn from two Greek gods, the sons of Aphrodite. Pothos, a desire for the absent being, and Himeros, the more burning desire for the present being. Through his work Newman reveals the absurd alienation of the individual, forever disconnected by these desires.

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Writing by Newman

Writing about Newman