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She creates embodied spatial relationships that engage with both physical and metaphysical spaces.
About Audrey Newton (she/her)
Audrey is a Pakistani-Australian artist from Western Sydney living and working on Dharug land. Through her experimental practice of sculpture, installation, and writing, she explores tension by employing the lens of magical realism. This exploration delves into the agency of materials and the liminal spaces between the ugly and the beautiful, the familiar and the foreign, the minimal and the excessive, and the known and the unknown. Newton explores themes of tension by working with materials and their idiosyncratic physical properties. Through the processes of artmaking and installation, she creates embodied spatial relationships that engage with both physical and metaphysical spaces.
Newton uses ephemeral materials, such as latex and perishable flowers and fruit, which can change over time to demonstrate the materials agency through a visual means. In addition, Newton incorporates industrial materials such as perspex, plastics, epoxy resin, glass, and metals to create a contrasting effect, adding bodily tension to sculptures and installations.
Biography
Newton completed her Master of Fine Arts at Sydney College of the Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours at Western Sydney University. Audrey has exhibited broadly across Australia including 4A Centre of Contemporary Asian Art, Substation, Verge Gallery, Firstdraft, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Pari and Tributary Projects.
She has completed art and writing residencies at Bankstown Arts Centre, DESA in Ubud, Bali, Pilotenkueche in Leipzig, Germany and Can Serrat in Barcelona, Spain.
Recent works
“Newton delves into the agency of materials and the liminal spaces between the ugly and the beautiful”