Some recent works from a great artist with whom we once shared a studio with, James Newitt.
Winner of this year’s Samstag Scholarship,  James works across various mediums with a focus on video art.

James Newitt
My Secession Party

My Secession Party  was presented as part of ‘Iteration:Again’, an exhibition of 13 temporary
public artworks installed in Hobart and Launceston between 24th September and 15th October
2011. During this period each work changed or developed 4 ‘iterations’ over the 4 weeks.

Over a 4 week period My Secession Party  transformed from beginning as a rumour, to forming
through a social action, to developing into an independent island, to disappearing with a farewell
celebration. Download the full project description and documentation – PDF

James Newitt
To Catch a Tiger

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
November 5th, 2011 – March 25th 2012
Presented with the support of Detached Cultural Foundation

To Catch a Tiger explores the spaces between memory and history, fact and fiction, desire and loss.
Within the exhibition the Thylacine is presented as a point of connection between broader issues
and opinions related to political and environmental subjects such as conservation, forestry and
scientific ‘truth’.  Download the full project description and documentation – PDF