Bio — Andia Coral Newon

Andia Coral Newton South East London based maker and project coordinator

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Andia Coral Newton (b. 1998, Croydon, UK) is an artist and project coordinator based in London, working predominantly across textiles, sound art and installation. The work she makes focuses on psychological self-preservation, storytelling through contemporary textiles, and the conceptual uncoupling of ‘human’ and ‘natural’ history which Andia feels has resulted in the deterioration of physical and mental wellbeing in the UK. Primarily a weaver, Andia’s research also touches on the interconnection between textile making and gender, and consequently the way in which we collectively perceive Art History in relation to craft, industrialisation and domestic practices.

Human beings move through life responding to our relationships with our own bodies, our domestic everyday environments and the planet we all share. The work Andia makes uses graphic woven symbols for these relationships as a language to explore human fears, hopes and desires. Despite using traditional techniques and historical references, the main concerns in her work are very future facing.

Andia’s work has been exhibited in the UK, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany.

Education and Residencies2024, Field Recording: Red Deer Season with Chris Watson, Camp, France
2023, Advanced Textile Programme, TextielLab, Tilburg, Netherlands
2023, Resident Artist at General Practice, Lincoln, UK
2020, Resident Artist at Kunstkollektivet 8b, Unnerud, Denmark
2019, Exchange programme at HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
2017-2020, BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2016-2017, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Leeds Arts University, UK

Awards2023, Evening Standard Art Prize 2023 - Shortlisted
2022, StART x MMG Emerging Art Prize - Shortlisted
2020, Scholarship to study at Kunstkollektivet 8b

Commissions2023, Tablecloth for Out of the Peat, Flatland Projects, Bexhill, UK
2021, Commissioned Artist for Parrabbola, London
2021, Commissioned Artist for The Collection Museum, Lincoln

Upcoming2025, DISTESE, YAG/Garage, Pescara, Italy

Exhibitions
2025, Mythic Thread, Royal Over-Seas League, London, UK 2024, Milkmas, Royal George, London, UK 2024, Queeriosities, Copeland Park Gallery, London, UK 2024, Guild, Filet Space, London, UK 2024, A Matter Of Life, TextielLab, Tilburg, Netherlands 2024, This Is The World We Live In, hARTslane, New Cross, UK 2023, WIP Presentation, TextielLab, Tilburg, Netherlands
2023, Rhizom Remix, Pakhuset, Nykøbing Sj., Denmark
2023, Just a Bunch of String, Hypha Projects, Stratford, London, UK
2023, Equinox, Royal George, Deptford X Festival, London, UK
2023, Evening Standard Art Prize 2023, Cromwell Place, London, UK
2023, Out of the Peat, Flatland Projects, Bexhill, UK
2023, The Great Hall, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK
2023, Queeriosities Fair, Museum of the Home, London, UK
2023, Drawing Open, No Format gallery, New Cross, London, UK
2023, Blubber, General Practice, Lincoln, UK
2023, Buoyed, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2022, Creature Comforts, JGM Gallery, London, UK
2022, Martin Miller's Gin Emerging Art Prize, StART Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK2022, All Under One Roof, Arthub x Deptford X, London, UK
2022, The Sun is Out, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London, UK
2022, Buoyed, SET Lewisham, London, UK
2022, London Open Takeover, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2022, Drawing Open, no format Gallery, New Cross, London, UK
2022, Tapestry Show, Arthub, Deptford, London, UK
2021, Carpark Install, Parrabbola & Newham Heritage Month, London, UK
2020, Colour Localities, Pakhuset, Nykøbing Sj., Denmark
2019, 8496 x International Youth Festival Kingston, UK
2019, Spoozic 2, Matchstick Piehouse, Deptford, London, UK
2019, Tangle Magazine Launch, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2019, How Much is a Chunk?, HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Germany
2018-19, I N T E R V A L S, The Collection, Lincoln, UK
2018, Surge, East Wing Biennial, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2018, Walking Out, General Practice, Lincoln, UK
2017, Star City, The Collection, Lincoln, UK
2017, Extra-Ordinary, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, UK

Curatorial Projects
2024, Guild, Filet Space, London, UK
August 2023, The Burden of Heavy Flesh, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
August 2023, Sonic Boom, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
June 2023, The Great Hall, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK
February 2023, Buoyed, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
July 2022, Buoyed, SET Lewisham, London, UK
July 2022, -topia, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
February 2022, Tapestry Show, Arthub, Deptford, London, UK

EmploymentCurrent
Artists Assistant, The Armour Studio, London
Weaver, Isabella Stefanelli Studio, London
Project Coodinator, Art Forward, London
Past
2021-2024, Exhibitions Coordinator at Bermondsey Project Space, London
2021-2022, Gallery Ambassador at Whitechapel Gallery, London
2021, Artists Assistant to Ayesha Hameed, London
2018-2022, Events Staff & Front of House at Chisenhale Gallery, London
2018, Voluntary work at Drawing Room, London
2017, Voluntary work at blip blip blip, Leeds