Nita Newman Visual Arts BA (Hons) PGCE PCET QTLS
Artist Statement
I am an installation artist whose interests lie in the act between physically looking and internet searching. I express my findings using both traditional and digital mediums. I facilitate art workshops and deliver art appreciation lectures. I am a qualified teacher and lecturer with QTLS status.
Exhibitions & Projects
2024 Leicester Museum Open – Selected artist
2024 Sock gallery – Selected artist
2023 Leicester Museum Open – Selected artist
2023 Sock Gallery – Selected artist
2022 Our Place Our Space – Lead Artist, community photography/sculpture project. Picture This Media CIC Birmingham: Various venues.
2022 Platinum Jubilee Celebration Film & Exhibition (ACE & Heart Of England) West Heath Community Centre documentary. Project manager and artistic direction. Community collaboration with John Hemming Rachel Jennings.
2022 New Art Gallery Walsall – West Midlands Open. Selected Artist
2022 New Art Galley Walsall – Film Screening – performance – Frankenstein ‘La Repetition’
2021 IKON Gallery – IKON for Artists group exhibition. Birmingham, UK
2020 Loading the COVID Lifeboats- ACE Funded- Working On line to keep communities together. Birmingham UK
2018 St Francis Art Exhibition- Exhibition of adult learners art works: The Showcase Gallery Birmingham UK
2018 Don’t be Afraid- Collaborasaurus group performances. Vivid Birmingham, UK
2018 Cats, dogs a Bat & a Snail: Exhibition of work from Friction Arts; by the young people of Art Club; The Showcase Gallery Birmingham.
2018 Shifting Birmingham: The Library of Birmingham plus various venues. ACE Funded
2017 Shifting Birmingham: 900 Years Drawn & Erased. Walks, talks/installation: ACE Funded Works Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2016 The Fall. Works Artists’ Collective group Show. Works Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
2016 Feature. A participatory online video project initiated by Dan Auluk.
2016 M5 Mile. Documentary Exhibition. Coordinator & Artist. Nest, Birmingham, UK Heritage Lottery funded
2016 Yesterday’s Dreams. Curator. Exhibition by the young people of Friction Arts Art Club. Funded by Heritage Lottery. The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
2016 The M5 Mile. A site-specific commission. Canal Junction nr Smethwick. UK Heritage Lotter Funded
2015 Mapping the Metaphysical. Nita Newman and Jen Dixon, Birmingham, UK
2015 Birmingham Open, Selected Artist, The Gas Hall BMAG Birmingham, UK
2014 Spring Offensive. The Works Artist Collective. Group Show. Birmingham, UK
2013 We Never Met. Commission. Andre De Jong (Vinyl). Solo Show. Birmingham, UK
2013 Re:Call http://arthasleftthebuilding.blogspot.co.uk BIAD Bournville, UK
2012 Proposal 2, AV animation. Group Show, The Works Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2012 Summer Camp, Group Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2012 Castling. On line group exhibition. Eastside Projects, Birmingham in collaboration with the Glasgow International Festival of Art, UK.
2012 Allotment Plot 2. Group Drawing Performance. The MAC Birmingham, UK
2012 Agora. Group show. Animation & Artist talk www.thebrickbox.co.uk Tooting, London, UK
2012 Allotment Plot 2. Blind Drawing No.2. Solo drawing performance. The MAC Birmigham. UK
2011 Ego 2. Group show. Minerva Works, Birmingham, UK.
2011 Zoom +/- Group Show. The Works Gallery & Unit 309, Birmingham, UK.
2010 125 years of Margaret Street, Alumni Show. Photographic documentation from ‘Fleeting.’
2010 Fleeting. The Works Gallery, Birmingham. Two person installation.
2010 The Worcester Open. Selected work. Oil on canvas.
2009 ‘My understanding of this’, VIVID, Birmingham. Participatory artwork, text piece.
2009 Artsfest. ‘Seeing is Believing’ 200th Anniversary of Braille. With Pocklington Trust.
2009 Life By Proxy. SOA, Bournville, Birmingham, UK. 48 tv AV installation.
2008 Positively RED Art Exhibition. The Pavillions, Birmingham, UK.
2008 Pocklington Trust 50th Anniversary. Open Day: Northfield. Birmingham UK. Presented partially sighted students work for group exhibition.
2008 The Foley Experiments. New Generation Arts, (Joint Lead Student Mentor) Birmingham.
2007 Reality Estate. Friction Arts (Virtual Choir) The Curio City Shop, Birmingham, UK.
2007 Strangerlands. The Curio City Shop (Friction Arts) UK. Group show. Birmingham, UK.
2007 The Emotional Room. The New Generation Arts Festival, Group Show Birmingham, UK.
2007 The Birmingham Open: Selected Photographic entry, BMAG, UK.
2006 Breaking News. Group show. The Works, Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
Awards
2016 Heritage Lottery Award Medal – Best exhibition at the Gas Hall (Art Club- Friction Arts)
2009 Emma Jesse Phipps Studentship Award. School Of Art, Bournville. UK
2006 Beacon Award (Queens Anniversary Prize) Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham.
Education & Training
2024 Emergency First Aid at Work. Level 3. Valid until 8th July 2027
2014 SITS data base training. BCU. City North.
2013 Friction Arts. Training in Oral history collection, archiving and interviews.
2012 Institute for Learning. Awarded QTLS. (Qualified teaching and Learning Status)
2011 Birmingham City University Perry Barr, Birmingham, UK, PGCE PCET
2009 Birmingham City University, Bournville, UK BA First Class (Hons). Visual Arts by Negotiated Study
2006 Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham, UK. Foundation Studies in Art & Design. (Distinction)
Experiential work within the arts and heritage.
2017- Art Appreciation Lecturer/ Painting and Drawing tutor– St Francis Centre Bournville Birmingham and the Mountsorrel Memorial Centre (since 2023)
2018. Joint Exhibition Curator for Wholesale Memory with/for Friction Arts at the Library of Birmingham.
2015-17 Community Heritage Worker and PM. MADE (Birmingham). ‘Everybody’s Story’, a Heritage Lottery funded project about Chance Glass Works Smethwick. Workshop delivery at Holly Lodge School and Level 2 and 3 Module creation and delivery for Bournville College. Working in conjunction with Smethwick Archives.
2014-15 Foundation Art & Design Course Leader. Cadbury College, Kings Norton, Birmimgham, UK.
2014 Foley workshops. Baston Academy, Bromley, London.
2013 Art Facilitator: Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery. Wolverhampton. UK
2013 Foley workshops. Frankley Beeches Secondary School, Birmingham
2013 Technician. Prop designer and maker for ‘Napkin’ performance at The Vaults, Birmingham. UK
2012- Art Workshop Leader. Promoting, implementing & leading workshops with young adults. Friction Arts, Birmingham.
2012 Foundation Tutor (January plus Feb- June). Illustration pathway, Fine art/Fashion Textiles BCU Bournville
2011 Visiting Artist (Nov- 1 Day). Artist talk and individual BA tutorials. Solihull College.
2009- 13 Student Support Worker & Student Mentor at BCU School of Art (Unitemps) All campuses.
2010-11 PGCE Teaching Placement. Teaching foundation students in both Contextual studies & Photography. BCU
2009-10 Workshop Tutor. Weather Oak Day Centre. Cotteridge, Birmingham: working with older students living with mental health difficulties. 2D & 3D artworks.
2007-9 Student Support Worker (Unitemps) BCU Bournville. Video & sound editing support.
2007-9 Art Workshop Tutor. Pocklington Trust, Northfield: Art workshops with partially sighted people.
2008-9 Technician: Model making based on an eco friendly science park using the drawings of a partially sighted artist. Display for and hang of relevant 2D Drawings for degree show. (2ndSemester)
2007 IPS Space. (5 Day Internship) Worked with Andrew Hunt in preparation for David Osbaldeston. Prepared mailshots, dismantled and removed false walls, painting and making good.
2007 Reality Estate (Friction Arts) Steward; facilitation of 3 consecutive live performances as part of a group of 12 stewards.
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