Andrew Newman’s work Attempt to fill an empty space (Performance Anxiety) will be featured in the Blake Prize Director’s Cut Exhibition that opens October 7 and runs until November 7. The works selected for the exhibition feature themes relating to religion, spirituality and human justice. Newman’s video installation is featured alongside work by Gillie and Marc Schattner and Fiona White. Andrew Newman’s video installation Attempt to fill an empty space (Performance Anxiety) is a crucifix. When Newman envisioned the work he wasn’t picturing a crown of thorn laden Christ nailed…
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Andrew Newman is presenting his paper ‘Tralfamadorian time: digital rhythm and anxiety’ at Time, Transcendence, Performance conference at Monash University in Melbourne. The conference runs from October 1 until October 3. Newman will be presenting his paper at the ‘Narrative Multiplicities’ session alongside Daniel Vuillermin from the Biography Institute at the Australian National University, and Ruth Skilbeck from the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at the University of Technology Sydney. The session will be chaired by Felix Nobis an…
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Andrew Newman has written the catalogue essay accompanying Ben Terakes’ exhibition ‘Dum Dum’ currently on show at Locksmith Project Space in Alexandria. The essay, titled ‘The mute arsehole’, discusses Terakes’ recent painting and performance practice. The exhibition opens Thursday September 3 and runs until September 19. Newman will also be participating in the performance ‘Fight Night’ by Ben Terakes at Locksmith Project Space on Friday September 18. The second ‘Locksmith Project’ publication which will be launched on the same night of the performance and will feat…
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Andrew Newman is exhibiting work from his new series ‘Grounded’ at the exhibition ‘Map / Ground / Grain’ at Inflight Gallery in Hobart from July 31 until August 22. The exhibition examines “how in quantum physics (the science of the sub-nanoscopic) everything that we know to be true in our world breaks down at a miniscule level. This comparability to ‘our’ level, however, may be just a comforting myth – a way to rationalise a universe that is comprised of entities both a billion times bigger and smaller than ourselves.” The exhibition also features the work of Ryszard Dabek, Laura McLean and Gre…
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Andrew Newman is presenting his recent online project ‘Comings and Goings‘ at the conference ‘Framing Time and Place: Repeats and returns in photography‘ at the University of Plymouth. The conference runs from April 15 until April 17, 2009. Newman will be presenting his paper at the ‘Phenomenologies of place’ session alongside David Reid, an artist lecturing at Nottingham Trent University and the artist Jem Southam who is a professor at the Research Centre for Land/Water and the Visual Arts at the University of Plymouth. Newman’s paper wi…
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Andrew Newman, is launching his new online project Comings and Goings with an exhibition at Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery. The performative project explores the abstract of the daily grind that exists in most modern professions, where people are at pains to exactly explain what they do each day. The sociologist Manuel Castells wrote that ‘the process of work is at the core of social structure’, yet most processes at work have become become so ambiguous and detached from any primary action or mode of production that workers now inhabit an absurd Beckett-like…
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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 M…
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Andrew Newman is exhibiting the new video installation ‘ I um you I ah you I er you’ as part of his Masters examination exhibition at the Sydney College of the Arts. The work is a three-channel video installation that incorporates the colour and tonal alphabet that Newman has been developing. The work is in essence a composition of music and colour, a 21st century televisual colour organ, drawing influence from the colour/music experiments of eighteenth century scientist, Louis-Bertrand Castel, and his ocular harpsichord. Newman also expands upon William Burroughs proposi…
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Andrew Newman and Ben Terakes are exhibiting new works at the exhibition Desperately trying to tell you something at Firstdraft gallery. The exhibition explores the idea of the artist as romantic and the ensuing angst formed by the impotency of expression.
Terakes’ work is at an intersection between drawing and performance. Desperately trying to tell you something features a series of embroidered pieces of cloth that form confessional images of intimacy that proclaim secrets and lies about personal loves. The artists’ fast drawn lines and speedy confessions scribbled do…
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