Details
| First Name | Rosie |
| Last Name | Newman |
| Username | Rosie_Newman |
| Website | |
| Region | Highlands |
| Disciplines | Drawing, Film, Illustration, Installation, Moving Image, Painting, Performance, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Sound |
| Themes | Environment, Identity, Site-specific, Narratives |
Statement
| Statement | ARTIST’S STATEMENT Rosie Newman is a multidisciplinary and socially engaged artist, an environmentalist and an educator and is interested in how these disciplines are intrinsically interlinked. She believes that artists have a role to play in tackling biodiversity loss and climate issues and improving well-being. In her art practice, she reuses objects, new technologies, audio, sculpture, painting and events, with an aim to ignite curiosity and connect people, phenomenologically, psychologically, or aesthetically to the local natural places where they live. Examples include an exhibition of handmade birds’ nests that tweeted human-made forest sounds, a suspended sailing boat projecting recordings of local women humming and a performance event involving stargazing in an abandoned boat on her local beach. Throughout the pandemic, she has been swimming in the sea with a group of women in her coastal hometown in the Highlands. This awakened a fascination with the sea and inspired her current project Song Tides which involves suspending re-used industrial steel shapes in the water column to capture the patterns of tidal change in the Cromarty Firth. The organically shaped steel sculptures display the alchemistic play of the air, moon, sun, and sea on the surfaces of the metal. Steel was then used to produce a 3.7-metre spiral sculpture that captured the scale of the tidal range and steel spiral headdresses were worn by local swimmers on the eve of the summer solstice in 2022. The spiral symbolises the earth’s journey around the sun and was worn as an act of respect for the sea and the marine life it supports as well as highlighting humans’ connection to the sea. The insides of the headdresses are engraved marine-related drawings. The audio, Between Lands, was created to accompany the sculptures and includes voices of female rowers and swimmers, ‘stretched’ audios of waves and marine animals collected from hydrophones. The project is ongoing and includes a series of research, exhibits and social events, that draw attention to life in the tidal zone of the Cromarty Firth.
Email rosi@rosienewman.co.uk Instagram- newman_rosie Website http://www.rosienewman.com
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Biography
| Biography | Rosie Newman, a graduate of both Camberwell School of Art, London (BA Hons) and Centre of Island Creativity UHI Shetland (MA with distinction), is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who lives near the Cromarty Firth. Through her art practice, she aspires to create intrigue, awareness, and respect for the local, natural environment. Her recent work draws attention to the magical but fragile intertidal, littoral zone of the local shoreline. She exhibited at Relate North Exhibition, State University, Komi Republic, Russia (2019) and is Research Associate in The Liminal Zone Project UHI (2021), where she explored the seashore as a metaphor for the boundary between teaching and creative practice, funded by the Carnegie Trust. Her work is part of the Liminal Zone group exhibition which is currently touring Scotland. She took part this year in the Argyll Hope Spot snorkelling artists residency, which aired this autumn on the BBC One Show and creative outputs will be exhibited in CCA Glasgow 2023.
Email rosi@rosienewman.co.uk Instagram- newman_rosie Website http://www.rosienewman.com
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