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.

Representation

Saffron Newey is represented in Australia and internationally in Europe and the USA by the following galleries and curators:

Australia

Curatorial+Co. Gallery
Shop G01/02, 80 William St
Woolloomooloo Sydney NSW
curatorialandco.com

Artists page
curatorialandco.com/artist-profile/saffron-newey

Jan Manton Gallery
54 Vernon Terrace
Teneriffe Brisbane QLD
janmantonart.com

Artists page
janmantonart.com/saffron-newey

Europe & USA

CV

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
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.