...words, gestures, forms and figures are added or erased months, years or decades later.
–Newell Harry, 2023
Exhibition Dates: 3 March – 1 April 2023
What’s on the label is exactly what’s in the tin: thirty-odd, small, oldish works on paper, roughly chosen across two periods between 2004-6 to 2015-16, and never conceived with the purposes of exhibition in mind. But here we are in post-ish Covid 2023 with a small show of small works on paper presented in RO9’s aptly fitting ‘small room’. A lesser known element of my practice, drawing has always been and remains an integral act within my process. Like threads around a maypole these small artifacts often circulate and accrue syncretically over large swathes of time, and in that circularity are often abandoned and returned to. A process whereby things slip in and out of focus; where layers and sediments are built up and razed intermittently; and words, gestures, forms and figures are added or erased months, years or decades later. While some contain the seeds of gestation that have led elsewhere, mostly they are simply done for their own sake and the immediacy and freedom that drawing permits me to explore over more physically (and conceptually) demanding aspects of my work, particularly with installation.
–Newell Harry, 2023
ink monoprint, gouache, oil stick, pencil, gesso on paper
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
ink monoprint, gouache, gesso on paper
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
ink, bitumen wash, gouache, black and white gesso on paper
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
pencil, gouache, ink, bitumen wash, gesso on tea stained paper
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
gouache and marker on found notebook paper Jabalpur, India
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
ink, gouache, Chinagraph pencil, black and white gesso on paper
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
ink monoprint, biro, gesso on paper
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
ink, marker, biro bitumen wash and gesso on craft paper
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
ink monoprint, gouache, biro, oil stick, gesso on paper
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
ink, marker, pencil, bitumen wash and gesso on craft paper
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
ink, marker, pencil, bitumen wash and gesso on craft paper
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
gouache and marker on found notebook paper Jabalpur, India
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
biro, bitumen wash, ink, gesso on craft paper
71 x 51 cm; (framed)
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
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