Elizabeth Newman

Elizabeth Newman (1962–2026) made and exhibited art throughout Australia and overseas from the 1980s onwards. Her practice placed questions of subjectivity in relation to social conditions and constructs, and incarnates intuitive acts based upon unconscious processes.

Significant solo exhibitions include the museum survey exhibition Is that a ‘No’?, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia (2020), as well as selected solo exhibitions: Un-titled: Elizabeth Newman, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National Unviersity, Canberra (2022); Elizabeth Newman, Neon Parc, Melbourne, (2021); So many lights and so much darkness, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney (2018); Elizabeth Newman: Drawings 1984 -1992, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne (2016); and Elizabeth Newman, NADA Cologne, Germany (2013). Her work is included in major collections including the Australian National Gallery, Monash University Museum of Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Chartwell Collection (NZ), and private collections.

Newman was one of the first artists in the Gertrude Studio Program as an artist in residence throughout 1985 and 1986. Maintained by ongoing connection points since, Newman contributed works and projects to the exhibition program across multiple decades, including A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude's First Decade (2025) The End of Time. The Beginning of Time (2017); Catching Trucks (2011); Parallel Structures (2002); Quiddity (1987); and Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1986).

In 2021 she contributed the 2021 Gertrude Edition works: What makes this poem beautiful? and So Much Darkness.