Exhibitions

Watching a bonfire, open hearth or firepit is mesmerising, hypnotic, intoxicating, and transfixing. There is so much to understand about this simple but fundamental chemical combustion. Fire can destroy and allow regrowth when used appropriately. Fire has many ritualistic connotations, such as lighting votive candles. Fire is an example of plasma, one of the four fundamental states of...

Together We Rise comprises over 30 artworks by Royal Society of Sculptors members, presented within Chichester Cathedral. The work responds to the artists’ experience of the pandemic, their resilience, sense of community and collective hope. The exhibition opened at Chichester Cathedral on 27th June and runs until 6th September 2022 During this challenging period, a group of...

Film – David Bird, soundtrack – Joan Tower No Woman is an Island runs until 30th June 2022. No Woman is an Island is a curated collection of works by seven award-winning female artists: Cath Bloomfield, Phoebe Cummings, Nicky Knowles RWA, Debbie Lee, Rebecca Newnham FRSS, Sarah Purvey and Patricia Volk RWA FRSS.  The Exhibition I am delighted to be...

No Woman is an Island is a curated collection of works by seven award-winning women artists: Cath Bloomfield, Phoebe Cummings, Nicky Knowles RWA, Debbie Lee, Rebecca Newnham FRSS, Sarah Purvey and Patricia Volk RWA FRSS.  I am delighted to be included in this exhibition, curated by Jacquiline Creswell, at the Vanner Gallery, which brings together mid-career women artists in...

Together We Rise comprises over 25 artworks by Royal Society of Sculptors members, presented within Chichester Cathedral. The work responds to the artists’ experience of the pandemic, their resilience, sense of community and collective hope The exhibition will open at Chichester Cathedral on 27th June, and runs until 6th September 2022 During this challenging period, a group of...

Swarm Blur Sharyn’s Shed Series (300 x 200mm) The Epiphany series are glass sketches with colourful enamels fired onto the surface, edged with copper and with an optional oak stand.  The sketches are colourful abstracts inspired by aspects of an experience, painted onto glass with a history, previously a shed window or a greenhouse or a front door, so has had all kinds of...

Quercus has a new glass skin, added in 2021. The glass was painted in response to experiencing ancient woodland. At winter solstice 2020, at the end of a year like no other we had ever known, I visited Kingley Vale, an ancient yew forest on the South Downs. The limbs of yew entwined and grew together as if they were a single organism, and created primitive vaulted spaces which are natural...

Rise 4 in progress in the studio 2020 Three Artists – Open Studio Event to coincide with Arts by The Sea Sunday 27th September and Sunday 4th October 12.00 noon to 5.00 pm by appointment Artspace Studio, 44 Southwood Avenue, Southbourne, Bournemouth BH6 3QB David Bird – recent photographs. David is a photographer and lecturer with over 30 years’ experience, from frontline...

Hauser & Wirth Update: I am delighted to take part in this philanthropic initiative and my work will feature in Homegrown by Hauser & Wirth from 10th July. It goes live at 10:00 EST and 15:00 GMT. Hauser & Wirth Special thanks to the New York Homegrown team. As previously mentioned, the following press release was featured on Hauser and Wirth’s website....

Hauser & Wirth Rebecca Newnham has maintained a relationship with the art gallery Hauser & Wirth since before the Coronavirus pandemic. Hauser & Wirth recently announced that it would be unveiling a new platform called “Homegrown’, dedicated to the sale of artworks by the gallery’s staff, family and freelancers. The following text was taken from a Press...