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Kat Newman

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Artist / Researcher / Writer/ Curator/ Organiser.

I think about the ways space (physical and virtual) construct human, non-human and queer kinships. I fold theory and writing into the materiality of my work. My work touches on: time, space, narrative, and spectatorship.

Artist / Researcher / Writer/ Curator/ Organiser.

I think about the ways space (physical a...

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My art examines the ways space (physical and virtual) construct human, non-human and queer kinships. I fold theory and writing into the materiality of my work. My work troubles binary thinking, reductive definitions and engages through fictioning techniques. I am sceptical of ocularcentrism and intrigued by visualisation processes used by sciences. My work touches on the broader themes of time, space, narrative, and spectatorship.

Final work

untitled (bennu'd by the confusion) (2025)

Film by Kat Newman Colour digital video and sound, 2mins 19secs.

The spacecraft OSIRIS_REx landed on Bennu and collected a sample of the asteroid. This sample arrived on Earth 24 September, 2023.

torch I (2025)

Film by Kat Newman Colour digital video and sound, 3mins 30secs.

Image of torch I being exhibited on a monitor on wooden legs & sound plays through speaker to the left. The room is dark and tiled.

torch I (2025)

Installation shot of torch I as part of Takeaway (MA Fine Art CSM publications event) at the Good Rice Gallery, 2025.

  • Timber cube frame with fold out desk and shelves. One side has been turned into a bird hide. Height 210 cm, depth 150 cm, width 150 cm.
  • Cuboid timber structure with fold out desk, shelves and seating. The one side is transformed into a birdwatching hide.

Research and process

Plywood chair held together by c-clamps with ring-bound wooden book on top. Small screen inside plays looped video of fox roaming art studio.

fox in studio (couldn't care less about A-R-T)

Film & sculpture.

  • Audio recorder with contact mics and spikes in ground. Publication called 'Thick Rhytmns
  • Audio recorder with contact mics and spikes dug into earth. Publication of short story called 'Thick Rhythms'.

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Art Practice

My art examines the ways space (physical and virtual) construct human, non-human and queer kinships. I fold theory and writing into the materiality of my work. My work troubles binary thinking, reductive definitions and engages through fictioning techniques. I am sceptical of ...

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