Neon Parc

Born in 1962, Elizabeth Newman has been making and exhibiting art throughout Australia and overseas since the 1980s. A painter by training, she expanded her practice over the years to include wall works, objects, text-based works and writing. Her innovative and experimental work has been of significant influence upon her contemporaries and, further, on younger generations of artists who regard her practice as exemplary. Newman’s work is regarded as a significant advance to formalist-conceptualist discourse in Australia, and her writing is turned to as 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 collaborator, project-space board member, and vocal and intellectually rigorous member of the art community.

Elizabeth Newman has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Un-titled: Elizabeth Newman’ Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2022; ‘Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No’?’, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2020; ‘Elizabeth Newman’, Neon Parc, Melbourne, 2019; ‘So many lights and so much darkness’, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, 2018; ‘Mira Gojak / Elizabeth Newman’, Neon Parc, Melbourne, 2017; ‘Elizabeth Newman: Pop Up Store’, Knulp, Sydney, 2017. The artist’s monograph ‘More than What There Is’ was published in 2013. Newman’s work is included in major Australasian public and private collections such as The National Gallery of Victoria, The Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, The National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, The Kerry Stokes Collection, The Dobell Foundation Collection, The Sir James and Lady Cruthers Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Hewlett Packard Australia and The William Bowness Collection.