Main Partner
Kate Newby’s (b. 1979, Aotearoa) site-responsive work is often embedded within the spaces in which she shows, be that an exhibition or an architectural intervention. Underpinning this process is a performative ethos: she investigates the way materials respond to a site’s particular temporal, physical, and geographical conditions as a means of transformation. The distinctly handmade quality of her sculptural interventions simultaneously connects and contrasts with the surroundings of their built-up environments. Drawing out both the physical and poetic qualities of materials, such as concrete, textiles, glass, and ceramic, her work explores whether materiality and content can be just as informative as a situational context.
Working with a variety of media, I’m committed to exploring and pushing limits and nature of sculpture. As such, I am interested not only in space, volume, texture and materials, but where and how sculpture happens.
Enjoy a video conversation between Kate Newby (artist) and Olivier Antoine (gallerist), part of the Present Future section of Artissima Voice Over
Video made for the exhibition I can't nail the days down, at Kunsthalle Wien