Saffron Newey

Saffron Newey's work has, for some time, involved the interplay of photography and painting. The works, oil on canvas, are translated from photographs of Newey's own environment, yet despite this, the images ultimately resonate somewhere between fact and fiction.

Like stills in a film, these paintings represent only fragments of a story. The images feature no figures but seem to imply their imminent presence or recent departure and are therefore richly evocative.

It is the intention of Saffron Newey to initiate narratives in the work that the viewer can complete. The tradition of the nocturne is revisited in this series and it too is loaded with various interpretations. For Newey it possesses the duality of mysterious beauty and the intangibility of a frameless darkness.

Newey has completed a degree with honours at RMIT University, Melbourne and is now completing a Master of Fine Art at Monash University.

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