Erin Newell

Profile/CV

Erin Newell is an artist living and working in London, England. Her work encompasses video and mixed media in installations, and web-based projects that expand into a physical space. Newell's work is developing towards more interaction with the audience. There is a sense that the work is the aftermath...Or...exists in the inbetween space... of scrutinizing her personal experience against an external perspective. It can draw you in and push you away at the same time.

Referencing Existentialism, neo-realist cinema and aspects of the surrealist movement she explores the complexities of human relationships, belonging, and displacement, often digging into her nationalistic upbringing and her heritage as a first-generation Irish-American. Her work evokes feelings of frustration, loss, and longing, and failed attempts at healing.

Newell says: "When I attempt to understand my ties to homeland, there is no empirical answer; connections to homeland occupy transpersonal regions, ones I continually try to evaluate. I want to unsettle myself from habitual thinking."

Often with an intimate, narrative approach, Erin makes connections with the landscape to memory. Newell's work conveys fragility and an indirect message. Obliqueness.

Erin Newell has recently completed two new commissions, an interactive installation occupying a virtual and a physical presence for the National Media Museum's Open Source exhibition, and a non-linear narrative web-based project for Art at the Centre. Erin graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010. She was shortlisted for the 2011 Open Prize for video painting and recently exhibited at Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media & Interdisciplinary Art, Montreal and Tyneside Cinema, New Castle.

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