Kate Newby @ The Sunday Painter

Kate Newby’s exhibition, So close, Come on, is accompanied with a text by Alex Bacon.  The exhibition showcases a new series of site-responsive works that explore ideas around excavation and replacement, and reveals Newby’s ongoing commitment to underline the limits and nature of sculpture.

The works on display demand particular attention, entering a complex dialogue with the architecture that hosts them. Newby’s material vocabulary – clay, broken glass she collects from sidewalks, bronze and rope –  reveal her affinity for rediscovering and repurposing everyday objects in order to draw attention to small, radically slight elements that often go unseen. Varying in scale, her material-driven artworks disclose an intimate conversation between maker and environment, drawing directly from their situational contexts in different cities, specific natural environments, and the interrelationships between.