Bio
Saffron Newey is a Melbourne-based painter, who also utilises digital media processes. Her practice interrogates the effect of the Internet upon painting, both as a contemporary medium and as an arbiter of art-historical narrative.
Saffron Newey has been exhibiting for 30 years and is included in various private and public collections in Australia and abroad.
She has been a finalist in multiple Australian prizes for landscape and contemporary painting. A recent expansion to Newey’s practice is mural painting. 2020 saw her complete numerous public and private commissions.
Represented by:
Jan Manton Art
54 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe.
QLD 4005 Australia
www.janmantonart.com
Artists page
janmantonart.com/saffron-newey
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EDUCATION
2020 Ph.D Fine Art, APA Scholarship recipient. RMIT University, Melbourne
2012 Master of Fine Art [Research], Monash University, Melbourne
1995 Bachelor of Fine Art [Honours], RMIT University, Melbourne
ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
2020 - current Lecturer, Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) RMIT University
2013 – 2015 Lecturer, Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Monash University, Gippsland
2011 – 2021 Teacher Diploma/Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT VE
2007 – 2008 Teacher, Diploma/Advanced Diploma of Graphic Art, RMIT VE
1999 – 2007 Lecturer, Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication), Monash University.
1997 – 2000 Teacher, Teacher Diploma/Advanced Diploma of Graphic Art, Chisholm Institute
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS since 2013
2023 Pools of Sorrow; Waves of Joy, Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Future Phantoms, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2021 Promethean Heat, MARS, Windsor VIC
2020 Lost Pastoral, Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2019 The Sublime Network, SITE EIGHT, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC
2018 Menagerie, Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2016 The Immediate Past, Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Picturesque, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, City of Moreland VIC
2014 Sullied Sublime, MARS, Windsor VIC
2012 Overprocessed, MARS, Port Melbourne VIC
SELECTED CURATED EXHIBITIONS since 2013
2023 Out of Office (OOO), Fitzroy Pavillion, Melbourne, VIC
2022 Human in the Wire, Concourse Gallery, Willoughby City Council, NSW
Counihan Summer Exhibition, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, City of Moreland VIC
2021 NOTFAIR Art Fair Alumni Pop up, Windsor VIC
Looking at, looking through, Byron School of Art gallery, NSW
2020 Histrionic, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, City of Moreland VIC
2019 Family and Friends, Daine Singer, Fitzroy VIC
2018 Cut and Paste, Crowther Contemporary, Melbourne Docklands VIC
2017 ICON, Richmond Town Hall, curated by Neospace, Collingwood VIC
New Worlds, Incinerator Art Space, City of Moonee Valley VIC
2016 The Ordinary Instant, Bayside Gallery, City of Port Phillip VIC
2015 Science Friction, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, City of Moreland VIC
2014 Autumn Salon, Switchback Gallery, Federation University, Churchill VIC
PUBLIC ARTWORKS
2021 Carrum Train Station facade
2020 East Brunswick Village mural project https://eastbrunswickvillage.com.au/discover-local-artists-designers-designers/#1584638470609-2622b2df-8556
AWARDS
2022 Finalist, John Leslie Prize for Landscape, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale VIC
2021 Finalist, Bayside Acquisitive Art Award, Bayside Gallery, City of Port Phillip
2019 Finalist, Mission to Seafarers Art Award, Melbourne Docklands, VIC
2016 Finalist, John Leslie Prize for landscape, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, VIC
2013 Finalist, Bay of Fires Art Prize, St Helens, Tasmania
Finalist, Muswellbrook Contemporary Art prize, Muswellbrook, NSW
2010 Finalist, John Leslie Prize for landscape, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, VIC
Finalist, Norvill Art Prize, Murrarundi, NSW
Finalist, Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Williamstown
2009 Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Menzies Art Brand Gallery, Kensington NSW
COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Victoria University , Westspace Gallery , MARS Gallery, Jan Manton Gallery
Various private collections in Australia and abroad.