Halo Nevus
Christian Newby’s practice suggests approaching the intersections of creative production through horizontal rather than vertical, or hierarchical paths. Through his practice he seeks to examine and broadly subvert metrics pertaining to value and skill within fine and applied arts practices. Newby is currently looking at the industrial carpet-tufting gun as a case study in how the roles of artist, artisan and fabricator are determined by terminal belief systems in productivity and commodification. His unique technique of ‘drawing with carpet’ redirects the manufacturing function of the carpet-tufting gun and instead explores its capacities as a mark-making tool, while observing its fundamental equivalences to the pencil, spray can, paintbrush and tattoo needle. Newby’s textiles carry an awareness of the anonymity of globalized commercial production and mass labour, in direct contrast with the skilful mastery equated with artisanal handicraft.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 NADA Miami, Patricia Fleming Gallery
2021 SWAB Art Fair, Patricia Fleming Gallery
2021 Boredom>Mischief>Fantasy>Radicalism>Fantasy, Collective, Edinburgh
2021 The drum, the chime, the scrape, the splash, the jerk, Patricia Fleming, Glasgow
2019 Brick-Wall-Spider-Web-Post-It-Note, Beers London
2016 Tetracontameron, Space In Between, London
2015 Pots and Tiles, Ceramic shop with Ana Martinez
Fernandez, Space in Between, London
2014 Party Time, Space in Between Project Space, London
2013 Blue and Blonde and Among the Living, Space In Between, London
2013 Breton Wall, w/ Ana Martínez Fernández, Vitrine Gallery, London
2011 Christian Newby, Galerie OÙ, Marseille, France
2011 Parlour Apes, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2011 Stillmatic, Studio Warehouse, Glasgow, UK
2009 Gazing Ball, curated by Nicolas Party, Glasgow Project Room Glasgow, UK
2009 Grey Goo, V8 Plattform, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008 Me Master, Him Blaster, w/ Nicolás Party,
SweetGeranium, Glasgow, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Spring Syllabus, J Hammond Projects, London
2017 Yo Compro Calidad, Matadero, Madrid
2017 Soft Formalities, Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent, Canterbury
2016 Only Lovers, Le Coeur, Paris
2015 Studio Leigh, London
2014 A House is Not a Hotel, Pi Artworks, London
2014 Light/Colour/Object, Super Dakota, Brussels
2014 Whitechapel Gallery/Swarovski Art Icon: Howard Hodgkin, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2013 Consomme, Kinman Gallery, London
2013 Always Be Working, part of the Dazed and Confused Magazine/Converse/Whitechapel Gallery
2013 Emerging Artist Award, Londonnewcastle Project Space, London
2013 Arts + Chips, MOT International Project Space, London
2013 Le Club des Sous L’Eau, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2013 Interior 301, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
2013 Green Screen, Modern Edinburgh Film School, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2012 Toilet Group/Shift Happening/Live and On Fire’, in collaboration with Amelia Bywater, Intermedia, Glasgow
2011 New Work Scotland Programme, collaboration with Amelia Bywater, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2019 Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU, Artist-in-Residence, Hong Kong
2017 Matadero Madrid El Ranchito exchange with Arthouse Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria
2016 Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient
2015 URRA/Gasworks Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 Dazed & Confused/Whitechapel Gallery Emerging Artist Award, London
2012-2013 Florence Trust Residency, London
2011 New Work Scotland Programme, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2010 Triangle Arts Trust, Triangle France residency, Marseille.
PUBLICATIONS
2019 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, published by Thames and Hudson, ed. by Kurt Beers
2014 The White Review (cover), Issue no. 10, London
2013 Nouvelle Vague, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2012 Rebecca, w/ Amelia Bywater, Printed in conjunction with Collective Gallery for New Work Scotland Programme, publication, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 Victor & Hester Journal, Issue Four, commissioned centerfold image.