Sarah J newall
Artist, Lecturer, Co-Director of Marrickville Garage.
Sarah Newall employs ‘low art’ materials, handmade craft and hobby activity to investigate the relationship between everyday objects and contemporary art in an era of mass marketed design. Her primary interest is in the private domestic spaces we inhabit by creating objects that embellish this sphere. She makes domestic surfaces, bouquets, pot plants and customizes furniture to reference that which embellishes, beautifies and personalise space. Newall’s research therefore creates a site for ‘resistance’ against a utopian ideal that means the same perfect world, or lounge room, for everyone.
Sarah who is currently Sydney based completed her PhD thesis, New still life, which investigated the placement and role of still life in contemporary art in 2010. At the end of 2012 she created an ARI, Marrickville Garage with Co-Director Jane Polkinghorne, out of their suburban garage. 2013 saw the curating of the first inaugural show at the Marrickville Garage +1 in February, Marrickville Garage Yard installations for MOST in March 2013 & 2014 and Itra-sections at Verge Gallery The University of Sydney in August. Sarah has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions 'nature interrupted Contemporary Australian Sculpture', curated by Simone Jones at Redlands Gallery in Queensland, and 'Troika' at 24hr Art in Darwin. In 2010 Sarah exhibited in 'Sydney Painters', curated by Christine Morrow at Verge Gallery, The University of Sydney. Sarah's solo exhibitions include 2011 Faux Harp, 2009 Still still life, 2007 Domesticating Orange at James Dorahy Project Space and Girl shed, 2014 at Marrickville Garage. Newall was represented by James Dorahy Project Space from 2007 until closure in June 2013.
Sarah Newall employs ‘low art’ materials, handmade craft and hobby activity to investigate the relationship between everyday objects and contemporary art in an era of mass marketed design. Her primary interest is in the private domestic spaces we inhabit by creating objects that embellish this sphere. She makes domestic surfaces, bouquets, pot plants and customizes furniture to reference that which embellishes, beautifies and personalise space. Newall’s research therefore creates a site for ‘resistance’ against a utopian ideal that means the same perfect world, or lounge room, for everyone.
Sarah who is currently Sydney based completed her PhD thesis, New still life, which investigated the placement and role of still life in contemporary art in 2010. At the end of 2012 she created an ARI, Marrickville Garage with Co-Director Jane Polkinghorne, out of their suburban garage. 2013 saw the curating of the first inaugural show at the Marrickville Garage +1 in February, Marrickville Garage Yard installations for MOST in March 2013 & 2014 and Itra-sections at Verge Gallery The University of Sydney in August. Sarah has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions 'nature interrupted Contemporary Australian Sculpture', curated by Simone Jones at Redlands Gallery in Queensland, and 'Troika' at 24hr Art in Darwin. In 2010 Sarah exhibited in 'Sydney Painters', curated by Christine Morrow at Verge Gallery, The University of Sydney. Sarah's solo exhibitions include 2011 Faux Harp, 2009 Still still life, 2007 Domesticating Orange at James Dorahy Project Space and Girl shed, 2014 at Marrickville Garage. Newall was represented by James Dorahy Project Space from 2007 until closure in June 2013.
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