Kate Newby

Kate Newby’s work incorporates large-scale interventions in public spaces, text works, photographs of the everyday, and recently, series of handmade rocks and sticks. The materials she chooses are commonplace, ranging from those associated with the external built environment—wood, bricks, concrete, clay—and internal domestic spaces—carpet, bed linen, towels, clay. The elements she utilises hint at a life outdoors, wind, water, sun, a muddy footprint, and the titles to fundamental actions and ordinary practices. Often the outside is brought in—both physically and abstractedly–and vice versa.

She was the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Walters Prize awarded for an outstanding contribution to contemporary art in New Zealand. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at La Loge in Brussels, Fogo Island Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, and GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as The Arnolfini in Bristol and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne.

Courtesy of Rokeby Gallery