Newell Harry

Known / Unknowns

An important aspect of the artist’s practice is his revisitation of fragments from earlier engagements, archives and travels, and the re-combining of them into what one might call ‘anti-narratives’, which aim to disrupt notions of progressive chronology.

—David Corbet

Exhibition Dates: 27 July – 26 August 2017
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Trade Delivers People (sometimes): Vignettes for N.J., 2017
Two part installation - Part one: twenty framed Lambda prints on Fuji Lustre paper, selected images from artist’s archive (2007-2017), hand-typed texts on parchment paper (transcribed from travel journals 2005-17), artist’s stamp; Part two: vessel of pulped Port Vila Daily Post newspapers (collected 1999-2011), concrete pot planters, various found/made/collected/gifted artifacts, pencil, artist’s stamp, artist designed acrylic and steel structure
Part one: 65cm x 45cm (framed/each); Part two: 169cm x 35 cm x 35cm

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Trade Delivers People (sometimes): Vignettes for N.J. (detail), 2017
Two part installation - Part one: twenty framed Lambda prints on Fuji Lustre paper, selected images from artist’s archive (2007-2017), hand-typed texts on parchment paper (transcribed from travel journals 2005-17), artist’s stamp; Part two: vessel of pulped Port Vila Daily Post newspapers (collected 1999-2011), concrete pot planters, various found/made/collected/gifted artifacts, pencil, artist’s stamp, artist designed acrylic and steel structure
Part one: 65cm x 45cm (framed/each); Part two: 169cm x 35 cm x 35cm

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Trade Delivers People (sometimes): Vignettes for N.J., 2017
framed Lambda prints on Fuji Lustre paper, selected images from artist’s archive (2007-2017), hand-typed texts on parchment paper (transcribed from travel journals 2005-17), artist’s stamp
65 x 45 cm
Edition of 2 + AP 1

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Trade Delivers People (sometimes): Vignettes for N.J. (detail), 2017
framed Lambda prints on Fuji Lustre paper, selected images from artist’s archive (2007-2017), hand-typed texts on parchment paper (transcribed from travel journals 2005-17), artist’s stamp
65 x 45 cm
Edition of 2 + AP 1

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Archive of a lost South African Modern: Found contents of the estate of Henry M. Waller (Cape Town, 2006), 2017
various ephemera, works on paper, oil on tin, artist designed acrylic and steel structure
vitrine dimensions: 97 x 120 x 45cm each; overall dimensions variable

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Archive of a lost South African Modern: Found contents of the estate of Henry M. Waller (Cape Town, 2006) (detail), 2017
various ephemera, works on paper, oil on tin, artist designed acrylic and steel structure
vitrine dimensions: 97 x 120 x 45cm each; overall dimensions variable

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