Exhibitions

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 included in this...

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...

Glass Worlds: a series of imploded glass and concrete spheres. As the pandemic extended, my thoughts were taken over by this unprecedented situation, with fear for the safety of my loved ones and frustration at the environmental disasters this planet endures. My automatic reaction to this is to express it with glass. In my opinion, disrespect towards the current ecosystem has led to...

Room dividers with Japanese Motifs in the Tokyo National Museum, Japan. Tokyo National Museum, Japan, is unlike any museum I have ever visited. It is enormous, organised and has lots of space. It actually succeeds in organising millennia of artefacts and sculptures into a semblance of order. One gallery begins by explaining: “Japan has three main traditions of sculpture, Buddhist...