24th January 2007
The Collection, Lincoln announces the arrival of it's first artist in residence, John Newling.
Newling has an international reputation and has installed works across Europe and the USA. He lives in Nottingham where he is currently Professor of Installation Sculpture at The Nottingham Trent University.
He will be using the new studio at the Terrace, in the Cultural Quarter of Lincoln, as a base for his visits, until the end of March. Working on a number of ideas and concepts, his work will link into the popular Churches festival at which he will participate this year.
John Newling was born in Birmingham and after completing MA and M.Phil degrees at Chelsea and Wolverhampton he was awarded the first Fulbright Fellowship in Visual Art in 1985.
During his time in America, Newling produced works in hotels, swimming pools, burnt out cars, sales of memorabilia and on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC and New York. This experience marked the beginning of his enduring interest in notions of Place both in terms of cartography and context. This has generated many works over the following decades both gallery based and site specific.
Newling has large scale works within the public domain such as major commissions for the Post Office and The Inland Revenue. His exhibitions include a recent retrospective at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park that also incorporated nine new works for the Pavilion Gallery.
