Kate Newby, Hours in wind (detail), 2024, cast glass, hot-worked glass, bronze, salvaged rope, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia with support from Lead Patrons Ginny and Leslie Green, 2024, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Zan Wimberley “Trust me, trust me………trust me”, 2024, White brass, sterling silver, bronze, porcelain, stoneware, glaze (7 pieces), size variable Exhibition view, Very active weather, 2024, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo / Japan Exhibition view, Very active weather, 2024, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo / Japan Kate Newby, anything, anything, Klosterruine Berlin 2024, Photo: Robert Hamacher Kate Newby, anything, anything, Klosterruine Berlin 2024, Photo: Robert Hamacher Vue d’exposition / Installation view: Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo/JP.FIRE!!!!!!! , 2023. Terrazzo produced at Torii Cement Kougyou Co., Ltd., Toyama (Concrete and found materials in Tokyo: stone, ceramics, glaze, glass, rubber, plastic, enamel, cork, metal, rope, concrete, shell, and bitumen), Indigo Fabric produced at Kosoen, Ome (Organic Cotton, indigo dye). Dimension variable. Co-production: Fondation d’entreprise Hermès and Mori Art Museum Photography: Go Itami Kate Newby, Good report, stop yelling tho. 2023. Cast iron, Museum entrance, 35 x 46 x 5 7/8 x 16 5/8 x 5/16 in. (1 piece). Installation view “Intimate confession is a project”, Blaffer Art Museum,Houston, TX/US What a great year for music , 2023, Marfa Book Co., Marfa, TX, Photo: Alex MarksI love this sound (detail), 2023. Verre, bois / glass, wood. 63” x 49.75”Kate Newby, What a great year for music , 2023, Marfa Book Co., Marfa, TX, Photo: Alex Marks Kate Newby, I like the way I am, 2023. Bronze, corde artisanale / Bronze, Handmade rope. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by Jorge Davalos Palma Kate Newby, Kate Newby , a year in the wild, 2022. Verre, jaune d’argent / Glass, jaune d’argent. 37 × 37 cm (14 ⅝ × 14 ⅝ inches). Courtesy the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur Vue d’exposition / Installation view Feel Noise, Kate Newby and MacKenzie Stevens, 2022, Testsite, TX/US Vue d’exposition / Installation view Carbonate of Copper, 2022, Artpace, San Antonio, TX/US Vue d’exposition / Installation view Carbonate of Copper, 2022, Artpace, San Antonio, TX/US Vues de l’exposition / Installation view “Réclamer la terre”, 14.04.22 – 04.09.22, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Courtesy the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Aurélien Mole Vues de l’exposition / Installation view “Réclamer la terre”, 14.04.22 – 04.09.22, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Courtesy the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Aurélien Mole Vues de l’exposition / Installation view “Réclamer la terre”, 14.04.22 – 04.09.22, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Courtesy the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Aurélien Mole Vues de l’exposition / Installation view “Réclamer la terre”, 14.04.22 – 04.09.22, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Courtesy the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Aurélien Mole Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Kate Newby: Try doing anything without it, 2022, Art : Concept, Paris Kate Newby, 5 minutes to everywhere, 2022, Bronze, 19,5 x 54 x 0,4 cm Kate Newby, amazing all times of year, 2022. White brass, silver, found glass (Auckland), stoneware, glaze (6 pieces). Dimensions variables (6 pièces). Dimensions variables. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur Try doing anything without it, 2022. Briques, pièces de monnaie, verre trouvé (Paris, Texas) / Bricks, coins, found glass (Paris, Texas). 324 x 397 cm. Produit aux / Produced at Rairies Montrieux. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Kate Newby: Try doing anything without it, 2022, Art : Concept, Paris Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Kate Newby: Try doing anything without it, 2022, Art : Concept, Paris Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Kate Newby: Try doing anything without it, 2022, Art : Concept, Paris Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Kate Newby: Try doing anything without it, 2022, Art : Concept, Paris Kate Newby, Walking with a lot of people, 2022. Limoges porcelain, glass, whipping twine, woolen rope, wire, Jute, ribbon, thread, gold, bronze, variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur Kate Newby, Walking with a lot of people, 2022. Limoges porcelain, glass, whipping twine, woolen rope, wire, Jute, ribbon, thread, gold, bronze, variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur Kate Newby, Walking with a lot of people, 2022. Limoges porcelain, glass, whipping twine, woolen rope, wire, Jute, ribbon, thread, gold, bronze, variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur : Kate Newby, ’Sorry fingers keep going’, 2018. White brass, porcelain, silver, brass, stoneware and glaze, 8 pieces Kate Newby, ‘Let me be the wind that pulls your hair’, 2017, Exhibition view (detail), Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA Kate Newby, ‘I can’t nail the days down’, 2018. Exhibition detail, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Kate Newby, ‘I can’t nail the days down’, 2018. Exhibition detail, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Kate Newby, ’lit by lightning’, 2019. Glass, Two parts, 9.4 x 18 x 29cm, 8.8 x 20 x 11.5cm Kate Newby, ’Bring Everyone’, 2019. Glass, Dimensions vary according to site Kate Newby, ‘The more I listen to it the more I love it’, 2017. Glass, beer bottles Exhibition detail, Contemporary Swedish Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden Kate Newby, ‘Not this time, not for me’, 2017. Mortar, concrete colour, silver, white brass, porcelain, cotton rope, glass, stoneware. Exhibition detail, SculptureCenter, New York, NY, USA Kate Newby, ‘Let me be the wind that pulls your hair’, 2017. Exhibition detail, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA Kate Newby, ‘A rock in this pocket’, 2018. Bricks, glass, ceramics, metal Exhibition view, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Biography
Kate Newby was born in Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand in 1979 and works in the United States where she lives. In 2015 she graduated with a PhD from the Elam School of Fine Art at the University of Auckland.
Working with a variety of media including installation, textile, ceramics, casting and glass, Newby is a sculptor who is committed to exploring and putting pressure on the limits and nature of sculpture. As such, she is interested in not only space, volume, texture and materials, but where and how sculpture happens. The handmade plays a very important role in her work ; it is not merely romantic or even retrograde, but rather the aesthetic byproduct of a position that shamelessly embraces direct experience over the mediated.
Her work has been shown at the 21st Biennale of Sydney in 2018, as well as in various institutions and galleries around the world: at Fondation Hermès and Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan (2023/2024), at Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas, US (2023), Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, Nouvelle-Zélande (2023); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); Musée de Rochechouart (2021); Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbane (2019); Lumber room, Portland, Oregon (2019); Kunsthalle Vienna (2018); Kunsthaus Hamburg (2018); Index, Contemporary Swedish Art Foundation (2017); and the SculptureCenter, NY (2017).
Kate has completed residencies at: The Joan Mitchell Foundation (2019), The Chinati Foundation (2017), Artpace (2017), Fogo Island (2013), and the International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP (2012).
She won the Walters Prize, New Zealand’s largest contemporary art prize, in 2012 and the Ettore Fico Prize (Turin, IT) in 2022.
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Catalogues
Kate Newby YES TOMORROW. Published by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2021, 216 pages Kate NEWBY Pocket Works, Michael Lett Books. Authors: Sara Jaffe, Jennifer Kabat, Sarah Miller Meigs, Eileen Myles, Sarah Sentilles, Stephanie Snyder and Kyle Dancewicz. Published by lumber room, Portland, 2019, 102 pages Kate Newby, Let the other thing in, Edité par Rosemary Heather et Nicolaus Schafhausen.
