Neon Parc acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung as the Traditional Owners and sovereign custodians of the Country on which we operate. We pay our deepest respects to their Elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Elizabeth Newman was born in Naarm/Melbourne in 1962. Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Elizabeth Newman has been making and exhibiting art throughout Australia and overseas since the 1980s. A painter by training, she has expanded her practice over the years to include wall works, objects, text-based works and writing. Her innovative and experimental work has significantly influenced her contemporaries and, further, on younger generations of artists who regard her work as exemplary.
Newman's work is regarded as a significant advance to formalist-conceptualist discourse in Australia, and her writings are incisive articulations of this aesthetic and psychological terrain. Her broader conception of practice has also been influential and has seen her working beyond an individual subjective position as a collaborator, and vocal and intellectually rigorous member of the art community.
‘MAY Art Fair’, Neon Parc, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, New Zealand
2023
‘Loss of World’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2022
‘…and the world flew off its axis.’, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2021
‘One All Alone’, Disneyland Paris, Melbourne
‘Un-titled’, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra
2020
‘Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No’?’, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
2019
‘Elizabeth Newman’, Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia
2018
‘So many lights and so much darkness’, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2017
‘Mira Gojak / Elizabeth Newman’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
‘Elizabeth Newman: Pop Up Store’, Knulp, Sydney
2016
‘Elizabeth Newman: The effect that is propagated is not from the communication of speech but from
the displacement of discourse’, Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia
‘Elizabeth Newman Drawings 1984 -1992’, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
2013
‘Elizabeth Newman’, Hamish McKay, Wellington, New Zealand
‘Elizabeth Newman’, Book Launch, Neon Parc, Melbourne
‘Axiom’, Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia
‘Elizabeth Newman’, NADA Cologne, Germany
‘Elizabeth Newman’, SNO (Sydney Non Objective), Sydney, Australia
2012
‘Art Copenhagen’, Copenhagen, DM
‘Elizabeth Newman: Painting without Paint’, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
‘Black elastic, two umbrellas, a mint leaf and wheels’, Monash University Museum of Art,
Melbourne, Australia
‘Forever Young’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
‘Catching Trucks’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
‘Rays on the shutter’, Galleria Duemila, Manila, Phillipines
‘Love and Telepathy’, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia
‘Group Show’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2010
‘Extreme Beauty: Approaches To The Real’, Y3K, Melbourne, Australia
‘Paint(h)ing’, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
‘Taint’, First Draft, Sydney, Australia
‘Discreet Object’, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, Australia
‘The Aesthetics of Joy’, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia
‘Lamp, Table, Chair, Big Painting’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
‘Canadian Pharmacy’, Neon Parc, Melbourne
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Artbank, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
The Potter
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
William Dobell Foundation, Sydney
HOTA: Home of the Arts, Gold Coast (formerly Centre Gallery Collection)
UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland
Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at The University of Western Australia
Stonnington City Council, Melbourne
Deakin University, Geelong
Hewlett Packard, Melbourne, Australia
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, Australia
Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Private collections
(close)Elizabeth Newman, 'Untitled', 2023. Oil and collage on linen, 137 x 96 cm.Elizabeth Newman, Installation View 'Loss of World' Neon Parc Brunswick, 2023.Elizabeth Newman, 'Untitled', 2023. Oil on linen, 60 x 50 cm.Elizabeth Newman, 'Untitled', 2020. Oil on linen, 95 x 80 cm.Elizabeth Newman, 'Untitled', 1990. Oil pastel on paper, 38 x 50 cm.Elizabeth Newman, 'Untitled', 2018. Oil and packaging tape on linen, 96.5 x 75 cm.Elizabeth Newman, 'Untitled', 1990. Pastel on paper, 29.5 x 21 cm.Elizabeth Newman, 'Untitled', 1985. Pencil on paper, 14.5 x 20 cm.Elizabeth Newman, untitled. Oil on linen, 50 x 40 cm.Elizabeth Newman, 2021, Oil on linen, 24 x 18 cm.Elizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2021, oil on linen, 50 x 40 cm.Elizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2021, paper, timber stretcher, 56 x 40 cm.Elizabeth Newman, 'Something found', 2017, Oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cmElizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2021, oil on linen, 40 x 30 cm.Elizabeth Newman, What makes this poem beautiful?, 2017, Oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cmElizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2017, Oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cmElizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2019, Oil on linen, 40 x 30 cmElizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2019, Oil on panel, 40 x 30 cmElizabeth Newman, Portrait of Polly Borland, 2019, Oil on linen, 40 x 30 cmElizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2019, Oil on linen, 45 x 35 cmElizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2019, Oil on linen, 45 x 35 cmElizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2019, Oil on linen, 100 x 70 cmElizabeth Newman,
Angela's Painting,
2015,
Oil on Linen,
157 x 121 cmElizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2020. Oil on linen, 50 x 40 cm.Elizabeth Newman,
Untitled, 2009,
Wool, synthetic fabric,
cotton and linen,
122 x 91 cmElizabeth Newman,
Untitled, 1989,
Oil on canvas,
91 x 76 cm,Elizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2021, oil on linen, 140 x 100 cm.Elizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2021, oil on linen.Elizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2021, oil on linen, 40 x 30 cm.Elizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2021, oil on linen, 80 x 70 cm.Elizabeth Newman, Untitled. Oil on linen, 2021, 80 x 70 cm.Elizabeth Newman, Untitled, 2021, oil on linen, 40 x 30 cm.Elizabeth Newman, 2021, untitled, oil on board, 50 x 40 cm.
