User:AthinaPetsou/Hayley Newman

Hayley Newman was born in Guildford, Surrey and lives in London. She has been making performance work for over 20 years. She received a BA from Middlesex University before gaining a Higher Diploma in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art. In 1995 she took up a DAAD scholarship in the class of Marina Abramović at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg and completed her PhD at the University of Leeds in 2001. She teaches at Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. She has performed and exhibited widely and has had solo shows at Matt’s Gallery, London; The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; The Longside Gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. Her work has been seen in group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum, Lucerne; Montevideo, Amsterdam; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and Tate Modern, London. She is interested in ecology, music, subjectivity, fiction, memory and the document. Her commitment to working creatively around the current economic, social and ecological crises forged The Gluts (Hayley Newman, Gina Birch and Kaffe Matthews) and their eco-electro musical Café Carbon, which they took to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009. She wrote the novella Common, based on her experiences as 'Self-appointed Artist in Residence' in The City of London. Where she wrote about the economic crisis from within, as it was happening on the streets of the square mile. The book documents the crash in the global markets, turbulence in the eurozone and the riots that started in London but spread to the rest of Britain.

Key Works
In 2006 Milton Keynes Gallery commissioned MKVH (Milton Keynes Vertical Horizontal). The premises was to drive a bus of volunteer passengers around the Milton Keynes grid system until it ran out of petrol. Milton Keynes was built on the American grid system which Newman states gave the "trip a sense of boredom, containment and involves going nowhere". The trip lasted 38 hours and 30m minutes, it was published and transcribed as MKVH the screenplay. She has contributed to the

She has written two more books:


 * 1) Common, published on 2013 by the GARDNERS VI BOOKS, ISBN: 9780955379260
 * 2) Performancemania, published on 2001 by Matt's Gallery, ISBN: 9780907623373