I’m delighted to be taking part in painting exhibition Mountain Size with the Contemporary British Painting group, curated by Gordon Dalton and the team at the Pineapple Black gallery in Middleborough. Open 1-30th Nov and related talks during its duration as part of the Conversations in Painting festival. Van study xi is parking up there in the exhibition.

Mountain Size features artists whose work has a relationship to landscape, as well as to the history, legacy and traditions of painting itself. This does not mean it is divorced from the wider realities around it or a fruitful critical dialogue with other art forms, but that painting itself is mountain sized, a large, seemingly immovable force yet one that is changeable with time.

Featuring:
Karl Bielik | Paula MacArthur | Stephen Snoddy | Amanda Ansell | Judith Tucker | Alison Pilkington | D J Manley | Simon Carter | Narbi Price | Pen Dalton | Matthew Krishanu | Cara Nahaul | Sam Douglas | Joe Packer | Mandy Payne | Julian Brown | Sean Williams | Freya Purdue | Greg Rook | Jeff Dellow | Gordon Dalton | Andrew Crane | Barbara Pierson | Natalie Dowse | Paul Newman

‘It’s Not the End of the World’ a large mixed media collage 2017-19 gets its exhibition premiere at Zeitgeist Baby

Curated by Helen Grundy & Paul Johnson at Art Rooms Kings Heath

Art Bank contemporary fine art in a derelict setting.
selected artists playfully exploring the chasm between beauty queen glamour and decay/abjection.

Featuring; Elena Cassidy-Smith, Molly Cleaver, Gregoire Dupond, Helen Grundy, Dave Hilliard, Paul Johnson, James Mc Farlane, Paul Newman, Astrid Spangle, Emma Trimble, Varioust Artist, Agnes Villette, Leigh Whurr

Presenting a selection of work from Paul Newman’s English Gothic series; a tableaux of 18th – 21st c references including; concrete architecture, historical landscape painting and cinematic monsters. The paintings explore anxieties of rabid urban renewal in the surrounding city centre and themes of psychological isolation.

The Showcase Gallery, Jubilee Trade Centre, Birmingham B5 6ND. Open day Friday 3rd May 3-8pm. Open other times by appointment, contact the artist.

The Very first collaboration by Mr & Mrs Newman! My brilliant wife and artist Nita Newman Don’t be afraid is a homage to the Universal Frankenstein movies, silent movies and Tableau vivante.  Part of Collaborasaurus curated by Alex Billingham at Vivid on Fri 2nd Nov. Other performances by: Emily Scarrott & Tom Kilby, Marcud Keating & Friends, David Checkley & Aleksandere Wojtulewicz. We were delighted and challenged to take part.  Hope it didn’t creep y’all out…

Photos 1-6 by Marcin Sz, 7-8 by Sanna Javid, 9-10 by Vicky Roden

Friday 12th January 2018 7.30 -9.30 pm

Thankyou  from Artefact to everyone who came along to @paulhnewman English Gothic Show tonight. It was a wonderful way to begin 2018. #Stirchley

Artist talk about English Gothic and my work in general; Friday 31st January 7 pm