Tiffany Rewa Newrick is a sculptor and installation artist. Her practice centres around the core idea of impermanence: nothing is ever really solid but is slowly altering over time. We exist in a constant state of flux. The materials Newrick chooses to work with, particularly for her installations, are often fragile and purposed to engage the viewer in a heightened reality mediated through an object that occupies space, yet is transient by its very nature.

Audience participation is integral to her work, and Newrick’s sculptural works are often playful art objects with a functional use: an art object that requires interaction with the viewer in order to be activated. In the same way, Newrick’s installation works are site-specific to refabricate a transient environment for the viewer that, once de-installed, exists only in the experience of the work, and its documentation. In both instances, there is no singular way to engage with the work, and it is activated through this personal experience between viewer and sculptural art object. The work engages on a sensory level: this experience of interacting with the work is just as significant, if not more, than the work itself. The art lives beyond the moment of its physicality.

Tiffany Rewa Newrick MA&D(Hons) has exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand, presenting solo exhibitions at Artists Alliance, City Gallery Wellington, NZ Film Archive and Civic Arcade Gallery. Newrick completed Artist Residencies at Artists Alliance and Bay of Plenty Polytechnic.

Recent projects include Finders Keepers, Artists Alliance Residency, in association with Artweek Auckland (2012); Atrium Harvest, Waiariki Institute of Technology Gallery (2011); The Sculpture Season, St Paul St Gallery (2010); Video Postcards, Living Room 09, Auckland (2009); Wintergarden Project, as part of The Auckland International Film Festival (2008).

Newrick has shared her passion for contemporary arts guest lecturing at AUT University, Auckland; and tutoring on the art diploma at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic before becoming the Polytechnic’s Art Programme Coordinator.
In her spare time you will find Newrick star gazing, inventing with her children or building a fort.