In The Community

Unpacking my Archive of work up to May 2022 – an opportunity to share a quick overview of my work to date. Currently, I am engaged in research for a new chapter of work. In doing so, I unpacked a part of my archive to best understand my linear progression to date and provide context to new developments. Archive of the Natural World Lichen suspended in the kitchen with...

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...

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...

Surge I was recently invited to attend an event hosted by Carole Bent, a creative catalyst and Bill Cotton from the BCP council. The event bought together 8 local creatives and considered the values of art in the school curriculum, and was held at Talbot Heath school. Led by Head Teacher Angharad Holloway, Talbot Heath already pioneers STEM education and has recently built a STEAM hub; a...

Allusion uniquely combines dance, film and glass sculpture and is the result of a creative collaboration between Rebecca Newnham and Lizzie Sykes. It consists of a site-specific dance film projected through and onto a curved sculptural glass screen. The glass sculpture was made to reflect the film, and its...

Lucy Turner created this short film of experimental artwork in progress by Rebecca Newnham for an open studio event.

‘Parabola’ refers to a mathematical curve which is used in architecture, seen in Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia for example. It follows the curve of an object thrown up in the air,...