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 an artist and researcher. His performative art practice poetically utilises methodologies from the communication sciences to examine value construction in contemporary culture. He is currently researching the application of Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture to economic markets and is exploring the existential elements of the economic theory of Andre Gorz.

Newman completed a MFA under Ryszard Dabek and John Conomos at the Sydney College of the Arts, exploring the application of Roland Barthe’s notion of pothos, the desire for the absent being, to televisual art practice. He has studied experimental media under German filmmaker Karl Kels at the Universität der Künste, Berlin and journalism and communication at the University of Technology in Sydney and the University of Hamburg. He has had his work exhibited in Sydney, Berlin and Tokyo.

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