Martin Newth is an artist and Programme Director of Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts. He studied at Newcastle University and the Slade School of Art. Primarily using photography, but also through video and installation, Martin Newth explores and emphasises the processes and apparatus by which works are made and the material properties of photography.
Martin Newth’s solo and group exhibitions include: Parallax, at ASP Katowice, Poland; Troubled Waters at The Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; Material Matters at the Gerald Moore Gallery, London, Sentinel at George and Jørgen, London; Ausblick at Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin and Slow Burn at Focal Point Gallery, Southend, In Place of Architecture at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham; Scope: New Photographic Practices at The Visual Arts Centre Gallery, Tsinghua University, Beijing and The Imagination of Children at the V&A Museum of Childhood; and Menschen und Orte at The Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany.
In addition to his photographic practice Martin has also organised and curated a number of exhibitions and projects. Most recently these have involved collaboration with Fergus Heron that include the forthcoming exhibition Country at the MAC Gallery in Birmingham, Scene at Pitzghanger Manor Gallery, London in 2014 and Capital at George and Jørgen, London in 2012.