Lucy Newman | Visual artist, UK

Printmaking & moving image.

1992-94 MA Fine Art PrintmakingRoyal College of Art
1990-92BA Fine Art PrintmakingChelsea College of Art

Exhibitions

2025Small Works, Newhaven Art ProjectsNewhaven, Sussex
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2025 Curated hang
Woolwich, London
What Happened Next? October 2025, The Safe House, Peckham, London. Group show. Curated by Sara BjornsdottirPeckham, London
Artists in a Bed. Performance, curated by Paulina An ZorgeAdelaide Salon, Hove Sussex
Voices of the River: Participant in Tate Gallery, HTRC Transnational, TBA21 and Love Our Ouse workshop Lewes, Sussex
Studio visit. ROSA Review of Sussex Arts magazine. Spring edition ’25
2024Royal Academy Summer Show
Great Weston Room selected by Cornelia Parker
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Directors Cut
PaperWorksNewhaven Art Space
Sussex Contemporary Open, Newhaven UK
Newhaven Open Call, Newhaven Art Projects, UK
2017- 2025Co-curator of MUDArtwave festival, Sussex, UK
2019Screening of FLAXMAN.
Marcia’s Farquhar’s The Dog’s Bolex
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Artists at Glynde PlaceGlynde Place, Sussex, UK
MatterGlynde Place, Sussex, UK
2018FLAXMAN screened at Difficuλt. Collaboration with Marcia Farqhuar & Victoria Harwood.CPG Gallery, London
Mrs BennMrs Benn, Brockely, London
Artists at Glynde PlaceGlynde Place, Sussex, UK
Chalk PitGlynde Place, Sussex, UK
2017White Trash, Gun Girls and Riots.
London Short Film Festival. Gun Girls screened with Q & A
ICA, London
51 Zero Festival
Screening of ‘How I Express Myself’
Chatham Historic Dock Yard, Kent, UK
Bird BoxesGlynde Station curated by Isobel Smith, Rural Art Mission
2016Common SenseEmpty Space, Holme, Yorkshire, UK
2015Possible Object.
Collaboration with Jo Addison.
Stop Bugging Me
Tintype Gallery, Islington, London
2014Holmfirth Art WeekEmpty Space, Holme, Yorkshire, UK
2013Decommissioning Shapewear (artist and curator)Feminist Times project with Charlotte Raven.
London.
A Universe in My GardenEmpty Space, Holme, Yorkshire, UK
2012Open Studios showThe Papered Parlour, London
2011Nunhead OpenLondon
2010Exquisite CorpseCore Gallery, Deptford, London
2009Strange BirdsGood Children Gallery, New Orleans, USA
2008Picture HousePicture House Cinema, Greenwhich, London
2007Move MePacific Playhouse, Southwark, London
2006O-MapsJem Finer, Oxford, UK
2005SnapperBrixton Market, London
2003Friday Night, Saturday ToldGallry Skuggi, Reykjavik, Iceland
2002Art PalMarcia Farquhar, Munich, Germany
2001Five Habits for Being EffectiveBrewer Street, London
1999Soft CityHouse Gallery, Camberwell, London
PassionGasworks, London
24 Frames of SeparationBrixton, London
ShoppingFAT projects, Carnaby Street, London
1998AdhocracyGallery Herold, Bremen
Whitechapel Open StudiosThe Foundry, Old Street, London
Beach LifeFAT projects, Islington, London
1997Special OfferPlaatsmaken Gallery, Arnhem, Netherlands
Special Offer. Co-curator with Tony CampbellCalvert Avenue, Shoreditch, London
Class VegasThe Embassy, Islington, London
Wait and See What’s for Dinner. Commission & collaboration with Jo Addison. Curated by Kate Fowle.Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
1996Bitter TwistUnge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo, Norway
Bitter TwistMargaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans, UK
Hijack flypostersNew York, USA
James Coleman Fine Ar
Gun Girls, film collaboration with Victoria Harwood. Screenings.London, Finland, Toronto, Taiwan, UK’s Rapture TV & BBC UK Arena.
1994Make Believe.
(Third prize winner)
South Bank Photography Show Royal Festival Hall, London
Alternative Arts Summer ShowMarleybone, London
Adsite & OutpostFAT projects, Edinburgh Festival and Venice Biennale
Second International Student BiennaleBarcelona, Spain

Bibliography

2025ROSA magazine – Spring issueStudio Visit
2019The Dog’s BolexBook by Marcia Farquhar
2013Decommissioning Shapewear. The Feminist TimesOnline magazine
2003Morgunbladid (Reykjavik)p24, 23 May.
DV (Reykjavik)p15.
1997Nov/Dec p.87, Review Neil BrownFrieze
Time OutMartin Coomer
1996Dagbladet (Oslo)15 May, Nye Briter, Harald Flor
Aften Posten (Norway)7 May, Young Brits with a twisted view of Life, John Harbo
1995UntitledAuthor of review of Natural Settings at Chelsea Physic Garde. p21
The Independent2 Aug Don’t Scoff, John Windsor
The Guardian19 Aug Making a meal of it, Laura Cumming
KaleidoscopeRadio 4 15 Aug, Review
Arnhemse Courant (Arnhem)15 May, Review, Henk Meutgert

Collections

2024Paper Bag (Red)Lanistown Collection
2010Prehistoric LandscapeUAL collection