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| For Visibly Evident Martin Newth is showing work made using a cardboard camera obscura. Newth produces large negatives directly onto sheets of colour photographic paper. The negatives are exactly 1:1 in scale with that which he is photographing. Here Martin Newth juxtaposes images of objects with portraits. Both objects and people are photographed with the long exposure that the archaic process requires. The portraits show the faint blur of movement caused by the slight movement of the 'sitter' over the period of the exposure, sharply contrasting with the highly detailed stillness of the everyday objects. Through this method Newth explores the process of looking and recalls the historical routes of photography, harking back to the moment of its discovery, as well the medium's relationship to painting and drawing.
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| Other projects by Martin Newth have included Solar Cinema, which involved a marquee-style tent that he transformed into a camera obscura, offering viewers the chance to directly engage with the process by which vision operates, and Ausblick, in which he turned a lookout building on the edge of Lake Constance into a camera to make huge colour negative photographs. |
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| Martin Newth was born in Manchester in1973. He studied at Newcastle University and the Slade School of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include 'Ausblick' at Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin (2008), 'Slow Burn' at Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2007), 'Vanishing Point' at MAC Gallery, Birmingham and 'Rush Hour' at BCA Gallery, Bedford (2005) and 'Solar Cinema' (2006-7). Recent group exhibitions include 'Menschen und Orte', at the Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany (2008), 'Andmoreagain' at the Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 'Passing Through' at Ffotogallery, Cardiff (2005) and 'Sequences', a national touring exhibition (2005). He currently teaches at Camberwell College of Arts and lives and works in London. |
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| www.martinnewth.com |
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