Gill Newton
Inspired by an inner reality I make impermanent, balanced sculptural assemblages and carbon drawings, often grouped in relational installations. guildford, surrey
Working on towers and blocks with beautiful dead things for the Wimbledon MA Interim show week two ‘Wunderkammer’, PV next week at the Nunnery, London. Thomas Cuckle the curator has been very helpful in his suggestions and recommendations of other […]
Last summer I had a good run of drawing and making that enabled me to feel confident about what I was doing. And rather naively I thought that feeling would continue.. At the moment I seem unable to organise uninterrupted […]
As previously posted I find it very hard to get back to making after spending time on the theory behind my work After lots of time deliberating where to start I realised I just need to adopt a simple approach […]
Well, best laid plans…. It’s weird how when I’ve done such a lot of thinking and writing it is really difficult to get started or continue with an idea. I know I need to keep up the momentum and follow […]
Finished my research paper last week and folio at 2.00am this morning, with teaching prep and teaching in between, wiped out. Heater on in studio, prepare lunch and sit, listen to ‘shed shuffle’ (mixed by a cute friend) and think, […]
What can I say, it’s certainly been more than three weeks this time! I have to confess that it is difficult keeping all the plates in the air Since I last wrote I’ve been dipping into Modern British Sculpture, ed […]
Again it’s been some time, slightly less than three weeks so that has to be a good thing… I’m reading Conversations on Sculpture edited by Glenn Harper and Twylene Moyer and finding it really useful especially how artists think and […]
I’m suprised to see that it’s almost three weeks since I last visited my blog. I’ve been immersed in teaching prep rather than art work so now reflecting on where I was so that I can pick up and get […]
Well, what can I say, I’ve been very busy making hanging bodies, early days though I think I’m on to something… I’ve just finished Guy Claxton’s ‘Hare brain Tortoise Mind’ book and have found it very useful to consider the […]
I found the Technologies of Drawing Conference at Huddersfield University very helpful, if just to see how other professionals use and view drawing in their practice. I particularly liked the presentation by David Dernie, architect and academic at Leicester, the […]
Thank you to Franny Swann for the very encouraging comments about my drawings and beautiful dead things. It’s really great that she can see pieces emerging A concern with my work has always been a perceived dislocation between my thoughts […]
Today, I’m reflecting on last weeks drawings and looking at whether they will translate into 3D objects, or not. And later this week, I’m teaching tomorrow, I’ll be working with mainly found materials and wire to make small works I […]