Kate Newby

‘Bring this room into focus. Embrace or ignore it, or perhaps register this room we inhabit as a container named within a list of materials: glass, metal, masonry, ceramic, the room itself. Kate Newby’s work is a measure of what is simultaneously common and utterly full to the brim with a charge. It comes after the question to ignore or embrace. A plurality of overlapping FULL and EMPTY on repeat. A sincere reality of materials, occasion, and self.’

Fine Arts, Sydney is presenting an exhibition of new work by Kate Newby.

In Australia, Kate Newby’s work has been included in the 21st Biennale of Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Cockatoo Island (2018), and in curated exhibitions at institutions including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2018, 2015); Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2015); Artspace, Sydney (2015); and with artist run initiatives including Slopes (2014); Y3K (2009); and TCB (2008).

Recent exhibitions at institutions include Newby’s year-long solo exhibition at Lumber Room, Portland, United States (2018-2019); and solo exhibitions at Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2019); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (2018); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2018); Artpace, San Antonio, United States (2017); Fogo Island Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada (2013); Gesellschaft für Actuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (2010); and Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (2009). Her work has been included in exhibitions at institutions including Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2019); Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany (2018); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, United States (2018); Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden (2017); SculptureCenter, New York, United States (2017); Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand (2016); Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (2015, 2012); Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom (2014); Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand (2010, 2007); The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2008), and the 1st Brussels Biennial, Brussels, Belgium (2008).

Kate Newby’s recent publications include ‘I can’t nail the days down’, edited by Kunsthalle Wien and published by Sternberg Press, Berlin (2019); ‘Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength’, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (2018); ‘Swift little verbs pushing the big nouns around’, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa (2017), ‘Incredible feeling’, Clouds Publishing, Auckland (2013); and ‘Let the other thing in’, Fogo Island Arts and Sternberg Press, Berlin (2013).

Kate Newby lives and works in New York, United States. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1979, and studied at University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts where she attained Doctorate of Fine Arts (2015), MFA (2007), and BFA (2001). Newby was Chinati Foundation Artist in Residence, Marfa, United States in 2017, with other residencies including Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (2015); Fogo Island Arts, Newfoundland, Canada (2012-2013); ISCP, New York, United States (2012); and SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico (2010). She was awarded the Walters Prize in 2012, and Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2019.

This is Kate Newby’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

14 November — 21 December, 2019