Newell Harry is an Australian-born artist of South African and Mauritian descent. For over the past decade his projects have drawn from an intimate web of recurring travels and connections across Oceania and the wider Asia-Pacific, to South Africa’s Western Cape Province where the artist’s extended family continue to reside. From Pidgin and Creole languages to modes of exchange in the ‘gift economies’ of the South Pacific, Harry’s work often references the cultural agitation brought about by colonial migration and the associated complexity of identity, nomadism, dislocation and myths.
Newell Harry Untitled (Anagrams and Objects for R.U. & R.U. (Part I), 2015, Hand-beaten Tongan ngatu, ink7 parts, 310 × 100 cm each; Exhibition view, Tidaletics, TBA21-Academy, Austria (2 June — 11 November 2017)
Newell Harry Untitled (Objects and Anagrams for R.U. & R.U. (Part II), 2015, L4L formply tables, ceramics, various artifacts, found objects, paper, ink, Tongan ngatu, chalk, Tables: each 90 x 79 x 190 cm, overall dimensions variable; Exhibition view, Tidaletics, TBA21-Academy, Austria (2 June — 11 November 2017)
Newell Harry Untitled, 2016; 38 × 56cm
Exhibition view, Newell Harry, Fish or Cut Bait?, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (21 August — 13 September 2008)
Newell Harry Untitled (No Point Being King Shit / Of Turd Island), 2007; Pandanas and dye
Group Show, from elsewhere
Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 2024
Group Show, The First 40 Years
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024
Newell Harry Small (oldish) works on paper
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2023
Newell Harry Sul Mare
17th Istanbul Biennial, 2022
Group Show, The Like Button
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2018-19
Newell Harry Known / Unknowns
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017
Group Show, Tidalectics
TBA21-Academy, Austria, 2017
Endless Circulation
TarraWarra Biennial, 2016
All the World's Futures
56th Venice Biennale, 2015
Group Show, Artists' Proof #1
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2012
Newell Harry Blue Pango: Musings & Other Anecdotes
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2012
Group Show, The Other's Other
Artspace, Sydney, 2012
Newell Harry Rendez-vous 11
Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne / Rhône Alpes, France, 2011-12
Newell Harry Untitled
(12th Istanbul Biennial), 2011
Group Show, True Story
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2010-11
Newell Harry Circle/s in the Round for (Miles and Miles +1)
Temperance Lane, Sydney, 2010
Mikala Dwyer Before and After Science
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 2010
Newell Harry Fish or Cut Bait?
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2008
Group Show, Summer '07 '08
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2007
Group Show, Views from Islands
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2007
Newell Harry Views from the Couch
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2007
NEWELL HARRY
Born Sydney, Australian: South African/Mauritian ancestry
EDUCATION / ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Diploma of Fine Arts, The National Art School, East Sydney Technical College
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons.1), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Sessional Lecturer, COFA UNSW, Sydney
Candidate DCA, UOW, Wollongong
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Esperanto, Murray Art Museum Albury, Australia
Small (oldish) works on paper, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Known / Unknowns, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Blue Pango: Musings and Other Anecdotes, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Solo presentation: '(Untitled)' 12th Istanbul Biennial, curated Jens Hoffman & Adriano Pedrosa, Istanbul
Lloyd Triestino, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
Alms & Psalms: The Unspoken Requiems of Henry Waller, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Fish or Cut Bait?, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Views from the Couch, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
I Would Have a Lot to do But I Don't do Much, MOP Projects, Sydney
Nomadic Interventions (MFA exhibition), College of Fine Arts, Sydney
Recent Portraits of the Artist at Work, New South Wales Ministry for the Arts Studio, Artspace, Sydney
Mr Intervene: (Musings) from the Project Nomadic Interventions, Demeter Helios Bakery, Glebe (site specific projects)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
from elsewhere, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand
The First 40 Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
17th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hammam, Istanbul, Turkey
Here Be Dragons, Copperfield, London
The Like Button, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Language is the Only Homeland, curated Manon Braat, Nest Gallery, Den Haag
Immortality, curated Michael Moran, Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury NSW
Tidalectics, curated Stefanie Hessler, Le Fresnoy, France
Oceans, curated Stefanie Hessler, Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik and 1483 Monastery Lopud, Croatia
The Oceanic, NTU Centre For Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore
Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, Not Neu, 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Tidalectics, curated Stefanie Hessler, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art 21, Autgarten, Vienna
Let's Dance, Artbank Gallery, Sydney
Sonnant et trebuchant, Les Abattoirs, Musee FRAC Occitane Toulouse
Grounded, curated by Judith Blackhall, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
Sugar Spin: You, Me, Art and Everything Else, curated Geraldine Barlow, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art.
Potentially Yours: The Coming Community, curated: John Mutambu, Artspace, Auckland.
Kula: A Gifting Economy, curated: Ute Meta Bauer, Space Caribbean with TBA 21 Academy, Kingston, Jamaica.
Tarrawarra Biennial of Australian Art, curated: Helen Hughes & Victoria Lynn, Tarrawarra Museum of Art. Victoria.
Der Kula Ring: Aesthetic Considerations of Exchange, curated: Alfons Hug, Goethe Institute Cultural Symposium, Weimar.
3rd Montevideo Biennial, curated Alfons Hug, Montevideo, Uruguay.
All the World's Futures, 56th Venice Biennale (curated by Okwui Enwezor), Venice
More Love Hours, curated: Suzette Wearne, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.
South, curated: David Corbett, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney.
Future Primitive, curated Linda Michael, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne
Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton.
Ten out of 10, MOP, Sydney.
Suspended Histories, Museum Van Loon, Netherlands.
Seven Points, curated Bree Pickiering, Australian Embassy, Washington DC, USA
Re-Orient: With or Without You, curated Aaron Seeto,, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of WA, Perth
Australia: Contemporary Voices, The Fine Art Society, London.
Rendez Vous 2012, National Gallery of South Africa, Capetown (Curated by Thierry Raspail, Isabelle Bertolotti and Nathalie Ergino)
Artist's Proof, Monash University Art Gallery, Caulfield, Melbourne
The Other's Other, Artspace, Sydney
Westpac Redlands Art Award 2012, National Art School, East Sydney
What do you mean, we?, Te Tuhi Arts Centre, Auckland
No-Name Station 2012, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Untitled: 12th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Jens Hoffmann and Adriano Pedrosa
Rendez Vous 11, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne / Rhône Alpes, France
Tell me, Tell me; Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Tell me Tell me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011, Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Sydney
Citizen Collectors, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle NSW
Edge of Elsewhere, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
17th Biennale of Sydney, Beauty of Distance, songs of survival in a precarious age, directed by David Elliot
True Story, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
We Call Them Pirates Out Here, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney
Adelaide Biennial: Before and After Science, curated by Charlotte Day and Sarah Tutton, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
6th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
No-Name Station 2010, Iberia Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing
Are You Looking at Me? Laneway Art, Temperance Lane, Sydney CBD
Synapse, Deloitte, Sydney
6th Asia Pacific Triennial (collaboration)“The Mataso Printers”, Queensland Art Gallery, GOMA, Brisbane
MCA New Acquisitions 2009, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney
Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection, Bathurst Art Gallery
Quirky: from the collection, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle NSW
Victory Over the Sun, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
Westpac Redlands Artprize, Mosman Art Gallery NSW
Our Lucky Country (Difference), Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney
News From Islands, Campbelltown Arts Centre
Summer '07 '08', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The Year in Art: 2007. National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Other News / Other Places, Starkwhite Auckland
Art and About (Open Gallery), Sydney CBD
ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award, ABN Amro Building, Sydney
Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Eldorado, Downtown Gallery, Adelaide, curated by Adams & Adams
Rectangular Ghost, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Our Lucky Country, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery NSW
Punch-up at MOP, MOP Projects, Sydney
Alien Invasion, MOP Projects, Sydney
New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (finalists exhibition), Artspace, Sydney
Slacking Off, Imperial Slacks, Sydney
New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (finalists exhibition), Artspace, Sydney
One Last Show, Herringbone Gallery, Sydney
Five of the Best, Rocketart, Newcastle
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AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & SCHOLARSHIPS
Pernod Ricard Fellow, Atelier Villa Vasillieff, Paris
Artistic fellow, “The Current”: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Academy; expeditions under Ute Meta Bauer (Milne Bay Province PNG, 2015) and Stefanie Hessler (Marquesas Islands, 2017)
Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Board: Project Grant, 56th Venice Biennale presentation
Arts NSW, Sydney: Artist's Project Grant: 56th Venice Biennale presentation
CCA NTU, Artist in Residence, Centre for Contemporary Art, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Artspace Studio, Artist in Residence, Artspace, The Gunnery, Sydney
Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant (established)
Australia Council for the Arts, Tokyo Studio, Takadanobaba, Shinjiku-ku, Tokyo
Dame Joan Sutherland Fund, American Australia Foundation
Duo Arts: One World Residency, Chengdu, China
Human Rights Commission Award, awarded Te Tuhi Art Centre, Auckland for What do you mean, we?
Artspace Studio, Artspace, Sydney
Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Board, New Work Grant (Established)
QANTAS Foundation Art Award (NSW winner), nomination Dr Blair French, Artspace, Sydney
No Name Station Residency, Warmun Indigenous Community, East Kimberley, WA with GCAS, Melbourne
Fremantle Arts Centre, Moores Building Residence, Fremantle WA
Cité Internationale des Arts, Moya Drying Studio, Paris, issued Art Gallery of NSW Trust
Self-directed study in South Africa with an Australia Council New Work Grant
Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Board, New Work Grant (Emerging)
Greatmore Studios Artist in Residence, Cape Town, South Africa (assisted Visual Arts Board, Australia Council)
Finalist (Highly Commended), New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney
The NSW Ministry for the Arts Studio Residency, Artspace, Sydney
Australian Postgraduate Award, DETYA and University of New South Wales
Finalist (Highly Commended), New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney
The Robert le Gay Brereton Award for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales Trust, Sydney
Dr Gene Sherman and William Wright Sculpture Prize
Basil and Muriel Hooper Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales Trust, Sydney
Finalist, New South Wales Traveling Art Scholarship, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
Merit of Commendation, The National Art School, East Sydney Technical College, Sydney
COLLECTIONS
Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Artbank, Sydney, Australia
Deloitte Collection, Sydney, Australia
KADIST, San Francisco/Paris
Les Abbatoirs, Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse, France
Monash University Art Collection, Australia
Musee Abattoirs, d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Murray Art Museum, Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art (TBA21), Vienna
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