http://www.leahnewman.com leah newman australian artist working with installation, photography and performance Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:32:22 +0000 http://www.leahnewman.com en http://www.leahnewman.com/Current-work http://www.leahnewman.com/following/leahnewman.com/Current-work Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:32:22 +0000 leah newman australian artist working with installation, photography and performance 3252129 After completing my Honours I have given myself the task of developing my aesthetic to better understand my practice. The best place to start can often be the beginning, for me this is the early 1980s, ironically a time of excess. This image of my paternal grandparents and aunt was taken at my first birthday party and will be the starting point for my new work. <img src="http://payload47.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/3252129/my_first_birthday.png" width="670" height="448" width_o="670" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload47.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/3252129/my_first_birthday_o.png" data-mid="16663421" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.leahnewman.com/Leah-Newman http://www.leahnewman.com/following/leahnewman.com/Leah-Newman Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:56:21 +0000 leah newman australian artist working with installation, photography and performance 3252040 Artist / Designer Education 2011: Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), The University of Wollongong, Wollongong. 2008 - 2010: Bachelor of Visual Arts & Graphic Design, The University of Wollongong, Wollongong. http://www.leahnewman.com/Road-Kill-Hoover http://www.leahnewman.com/following/leahnewman.com/Road-Kill-Hoover Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:06:09 +0000 leah newman australian artist working with installation, photography and performance 2842945 'Road Kill Hoover', 2011 from Leah Newman on Vimeo. http://www.leahnewman.com/Imperial-Light http://www.leahnewman.com/following/leahnewman.com/Imperial-Light Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:04:31 +0000 leah newman australian artist working with installation, photography and performance 2842937 'Imperial Light', 2010 from Leah Newman on Vimeo. http://www.leahnewman.com/Depth-of-Field-a-photo-essay http://www.leahnewman.com/following/leahnewman.com/Depth-of-Field-a-photo-essay Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:45:46 +0000 leah newman australian artist working with installation, photography and performance 2656437 April 2012 Currently the pin hole camera's and resulting photos from the photo essay are on display as part of Narelle Jubelin's exhibition at the Monash University Museum of Art. The exhibition will be on show from 24th April to the 7th of July. January 2012 The photo essay was a collaboration with a small workshop of artists led by Jacky Redgate to produce an essay of images on Narelle Jubelin's current work Vision in Motion. Narelle's work responds to the often overlooked modernist architecture within the grounds of University of Sydney. The Depth of Field photo essay utilises purpose built pinhole cameras to capture the reflections and movement between Narelle's work and the architecture it inhabits. Some of the final images will soon be posted here. <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2656437/vin_invite.png" width="670" height="630" width_o="670" height_o="630" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2656437/vin_invite_o.png" data-mid="13458417" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.leahnewman.com/Spring-Grove http://www.leahnewman.com/following/leahnewman.com/Spring-Grove Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:33:58 +0000 leah newman australian artist working with installation, photography and performance 2656196 Feralscape: landscape and memory <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2656196/spring_grove_water.png" width="448" height="670" width_o="448" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2656196/spring_grove_water_o.png" data-mid="13454019" border="0" align="left"/> Spring Grove Natural Spring Water, 2011 (plaster, imitation gold leaf, cork, spring water, 120mm x 65mm x 55mm) documentation can be found at www.springgrovewater.tumblr.com http://www.leahnewman.com/Kinetic-totem http://www.leahnewman.com/following/leahnewman.com/Kinetic-totem Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:22:29 +0000 leah newman australian artist working with installation, photography and performance 2656135 <img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2656135/kinectictotem1_o.png" width="448" height="670" width_o="448" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2656135/kinectictotem1_o_o.png" data-mid="13453826" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2656135/kinectictotem2_o.png" width="448" height="670" width_o="448" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload17.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2656135/kinectictotem2_o_o.png" data-mid="13453829" border="0" align="left"/> Untitled (kinetic totem) 2009, (steel and rotisserie motor, 2 metres in height). http://www.leahnewman.com/Feralscape-landscape-memory http://www.leahnewman.com/following/leahnewman.com/Feralscape-landscape-memory Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:02:38 +0000 leah newman australian artist working with installation, photography and performance 2246205 Honours exhibition 2011 Shown at the FCA Gallery at Wollongong University, 4th - 10th of November. The starting point for my creative work Feralscape is a personal connection with the Australian landscape where I grew up in the central west of New South Wales in the early 1980s. The work produced is a series of textual objects using mixed media, native and ‘feral’ flora and fauna and homemade electronics, in response to my memories from childhood and my recent return in 2010-11. A postcolonial heritage informs my personal perceptions of the landscape recalling ‘feral’ sightings – thistles dominate pasture, willow trees surround natural springs, and a wild cat wanders the paddocks and rampant foxes spend the evenings scavenging. These European influences are dominant in my early memories of the farm. Repeated sculptural forms throughout the work along with photographic and video documentation have been derived or captured from an iPhone. Today, in Australia and across the globe many people experience cultural dislocation as our environment does not always reflect our history; as a result culture is carried with us in the ‘portable practices’ of our everyday lives like images, rituals, memory, clothing and cuisine (Bourriaud 2009, p. 33). The iPhone is also carried on the body, it translates our experiences as a digital memory bank capturing and sending out information about the path we traverse. The work considers cultural and geographic boundaries, along with themes of dislocation within the context of the Australian landscape and post-colonialism. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2246205/feralscape.png" width="670" height="448" width_o="670" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2246205/feralscape_o.png" data-mid="11243533" border="0" align="left"/> Road Kill Hoover, 2011 (polystyrene, acrylic paint, charcoal, homemade electronics, 1260mm x 720mm x 630mm). <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2246205/hon_exhibition1.png" width="447" height="670" width_o="447" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2246205/hon_exhibition1_o.png" data-mid="13505264" border="0" align="left"/> FCA Gallery, at The University of Wollongong<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2246205/hon_exhibition2.png" width="447" height="298" width_o="447" height_o="298" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/2246205/hon_exhibition2_o.png" data-mid="13505267" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.leahnewman.com/Kinectic-installation-with-projection http://www.leahnewman.com/following/leahnewman.com/Kinectic-installation-with-projection Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:58:59 +0000 leah newman australian artist working with installation, photography and performance 817232 Graduation exhibition 2010 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/817232/gradshow1.png" width="670" height="448" width_o="670" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/817232/gradshow1_o.png" data-mid="3887937" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/817232/gradshow2.png" width="670" height="448" width_o="670" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/817232/gradshow2_o.png" data-mid="3895232" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/817232/plasticwood1.png" width="670" height="448" width_o="670" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/68484/817232/plasticwood1_o.png" data-mid="3895727" border="0" align="left"/>