Peter Newman: A New York Minute, 2013, 40 seconds, looped video. Courtesy PayneShurvell London.
This marks the final week of British artist Peter Newman’s exhibition Circulation, at PayneShurvell gallery in Shoreditch
The show closes on Saturday 18th January and there is a late opening this week on Thursday 16th January from 6-8pm.
For almost twenty years British artist Peter Newman has been making photographs, sculptures, paintings and video installations that address the human relationship to space and modernity. Circulation is a play on the photographic process employed – whereby a scene is rendered into a circular panorama – but also references other forms of movement and systems –information, dynamics, biology, people, financial & atmospheric.
The Metropoly series of photographs featured in this show are taken using a vintage scientific lens that captures a 180-degree field of view. Originally invented for astronomy and to observe atmospheric phenomenon, here the artist uses the ‘all-sky’ lens to record the urban panorama overhead. Newman spends days searching for the precise vantage point from where everything falls into place, and the time at which to record it. The photographs are created in-camera, with a single exposure and a minimum of post-production. The circular images celebrate a variety of iconic architecture, the way it reveals the character of a city and frames the sky above. London images of Fitzrovia, Shoreditch and the financial centre are shown alongside the stunning Embarcadero in San Francisco.
“A New York Minute’, the 40 second time-lapse video featured here (and in the show) was taken at Park Avenue in New York.
Peter Newman’s work is held in public and private collections worldwide.
For more information on this artist, please contact info@payneshurvell.com
About PayneShurvell
James Payne and Joanne Shurvell opened PayneShurvell in June 2010. James Payne, a Fine Art graduate of Central Saint Martins, is a curator and the film editor of Garageland magazine. Joanne Shurvell, a former Communications Director at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, is a freelance arts writer and arts marketing consultant.
PayneShurvell represents a group of international artists and encourages an inter-generational dialogue, with established artists like Margaret Harrison who has work in the Tate collection, alongside young and emerging artists.
About FAD Gallery
Every month FAD gives up its homepage www.FADwebsite.com for 4 days to showcase an artist who works with video and digital art. We work with artists, galleries and curators if you wish to exhibit at FAD Contemporary please email a proposal to mark@FADemail.com.
