Kate Newby

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Kate Newby
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Kate Newby setting up an exhibition in Auckland, 2016
Born1979
Auckland region, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
Awards Walters Prize
Websitewww.katenewby.com

Kate Newby (born 1979) is an artist from New Zealand. [1]

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Background

Newby was born in 1979 in the Auckland region of New Zealand. [2] She attended the Elam School of Fine Arts, receiving a BFA in 2001, an MFA in 2007, and a PhD in 2015. [3] The title of her doctoral thesis was Casualness: it's not about what it looks like it's about what it does. [4]

Career

Newby is a mixed materials installation artist. [5] She creates her installations based on their site and setting, often disused urban environments. [6] Using commonplace materials such as pebbles, nails, and rope, her work explores the details of everyday life. [7]

Newby was a member of the Auckland artist space Gambia Castle. [8]

Newby's work has been shown in internationally renowned institutions, such as the Biennale of Sydney; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Kunsthalle Wien; Contemporary Swedish Art Foundation; Artpace; Fogo Island Gallery; Mori Art Museum; Palais de Tokyo; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; Sharjah Biennial; among other institutions. [9]

She has won the Joan Mitchell Foundation - 2019 Painters & Sculptors Grant, United States (2019); and the Walters Prize, New Zealand (2012). [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Kate Newby". joanmitchellfoundation.org. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  2. ↑ "Kate Newby". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Kate Newby – Profile, Exhibitions, Artworks & Content". Ocula. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Newby, Kate (2015). Casualness: it's not about what it looks like it's about what it does (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/26347.
  5. ↑ Arozqueta, Claudia (18 December 2019). "Kate Newby's "Bring Everyone"". e-flux. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  6. ↑ Byrt, Anthony (30 November 2016). "Quiet wanderer: Kiwi sculptor Kate Newby". Paperboy.
  7. ↑ Jennifer, Kabat (12 March 2014). "In Focus: Kate Newby". Frieze. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Walters Prize: Lots of travel, lots of talking". NZ Herald. 12 October 2012. ISSN   1170-0777 . Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  9. ↑ Simonini, Ross (20 February 2022). "An Interview with Kate Newby". A Lie Before Its Time. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  10. ↑ Pryor, Nicole (20 October 2012). "Walters art prize goes to Newby". Stuff. Retrieved 2 August 2025.

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