THE MILLINERY WORKS GALLERY 

ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF Contemporary BRITISH ART JANUARY 2007

frances NEwman

Left: Mother and Daughter I Oil on canvas 40 x 40cm 2006

Middle: Mother and Daughter II Oil on canvas 40 x 40cm 2006

Right: Mother and Daughter III Oil on canvas 40 x 40cm 2006

'Frances Newman -  Figurative painter, printmaker and sculptor, whose Inner City Living Series reflected her life ‘as a single parent living on a run-down housing estate in Hackney, east London’. Newman was a National Health Service senior theatre nurse, 1981-93, working long shifts. After art classes at school she had always sketched, so put a body of work together and took a foundation course at Cordwainers College, Hackney, 1993 - 4, then, despite a lack of funds, completed a fine art degree part-time at Middlesex University, 1995-00. This was followed in 2004 by a two-year, part-time master’s course in drawing at Camberwell College of Arts.  Newman took part in Inner City Living with Damir Ceric, at The Millinery Works, 1998, showing at the same venue in British Contemporary & Modern Art exhibitions from 2000.   Newman’s 2003 solo show, A World at War, at The Millinery Works included grim and graphic images. She also participated in Art in Aid of the Medical Foundation at Royal College of Art in 2000. In 2005, Frances Newman/Jeff Jackson/Knott Architects were short-listed for the Remember Saro-Wiwa Living Memorial, commemorating the execution of the Nigerian writer and activist'.

Taken from: David Buckman,  Author, Dictionary of Artists Working in Britain.

Exhibited  'A World at War' The Millinery Works Gallery 2003. Also exhibited the Millinery Works Gallery 'Inner City Living', (1999), Royal College of Art, Museum of Design and Architecture, London Museum, Exhibited Millinery Works Gallery Contemporary British Art 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,  2004, 2005 and 2006

See more at www.francesnewman.com

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