About Tina Newlove
Tina Newlove - Artist Bio
Tina Newlove, she/her, is a multi-discipline visual artist working primarily in oils from her Campbellville studio on the Treaty Lands of the Mississauga’s of the Credit First Nation. She graduated with Honours from McMaster University in 1996 and has exhibited across Canada in public and commercial galleries and in artist-run centres including the Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Frederick Horsman Varley Gallery, the Roberts Gallery, Toronto, The Leighton Art Centre, Calgary and the Saint John Arts Centre. Tina’s work is in the City of Toronto’s Permanent Collection, is part of the City of Hamilton’s Public Art Walk Project and is in private collections internationally. She has been awarded exhibition, travel and education grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts and was a juror for the OAC’s Artists in Education program.
In addition to her studio practice, Tina Newlove regularly collaborates via live performance painting with bands and musicians since 1997. Upcoming live painting at the Liberty Grand, Toronto ON, Oct 2024, Gatehouse Fundraiser.
Nowhere to Land, oil on canvas, 26 x 50”, Private Collection
Education
1992– 1996 | McMaster University |
Grants
2016 | Ontario Arts CouncilExhibition Grant: A Little Truth in Everything, Solo Exhibition |
2014 | Ontario Arts CouncilExhibition Grant: Nervous Wait, Solo Exhibition |
2012 | Canada Council for the ArtsTravel Grant: Tribe of One Performance, Gathering of Nations |
2011 | Ontario Arts CouncilExhibition Grant : Sunspots and Floating Heads, Solo Exhibition |
2008 | Ontario Arts CouncilExhibition and Education Grants: PROTECTION, Solo Exhibition, |
1999 | Foreign Affairs Department of CanadaTravel Grant: Tribe of One Performance, ‘The Return’ UNICEF and WARCHILD Benefit Concerts |
Curatorial Reviews
2008 Oct– 2008 Nov | PROTECTION CatalogueMaura Broadhurst, Curator, ISBN#978-0-9811100-0-4 |
2006 Feb– 2006 Mar | Seven Deadly SinsMaura Broadhurst, Curator |
Checking the Mail, 30 x 40”, oil, Juror’s Award, 3rd Place, Headwaters Arts Festival Juried Show
Public Collection
2005 |
City Of Toronto, Permanent Collections
Organizing my Mind, oil and silver leaf on canvas, Frank Faubert Memorial Award for Art & City of Toronto Purchase Award
Scarborough Arts Council / Toronto ON
2022 Town of Halton Hills, Helson Gallery, Permanent Collection, Halton Hills ON |
Organizing My Mind, oil and silver leaf on canvas, aprox 6 x 24”, City of Toronto Permanent Collection
Public Art Collections
2016– 2017 |
Milton District Hospital 33 Foot Mural
Fine Art Society of Milton, Concept Artist, Lead Painter and Designer
Foyer, Milton District Hospital / Milton ON |
2015 |
Pan-Am Mural Project
Fine Art Society of Milton & the Town of Milton
Mattamy National Cycling Centre / Velodrome, Milton ON |
2013 |
The King William Public Art Walk ProjectCity of Hamilton / Hamilton ON |
A Song Grew Through My Ribcage,
bronze, Tina Newlove, First Prize, Lakeshore Arts
“A technically superb piece that brings one in close to examine its heartfelt roots. One not only sees and feels the beauty of this exceptional piece but compels one to go beyond into its inaudible world of music and all that that particular beauty can evoke. Truly a piece as its title suggests: a song through the ribcage.”
Lakeshore Arts Jury, 2011
Artist Statement
My latest work explores abstract figures in transition, moving from moment to moment, exploring relationships within themselves, their community and the environment.
My paintings and collages are made up of overlapping personal symbols and simplified figures jumbled up together in a love of colour. Urban and rural landscapes are pieced together quilt-like and gestural lines try to capture the insane speed of disjointed information received daily and how it relates personally and to my community and committments. To make sense of the many social and environmental concerns, locally and around the world, my themes relate to the intersections of work and family, alienation in modern society and the necessity of withdrawing into nature. I’m interested in cyclical patterns, calendar days, and the layers of tradition and technology in daily life.
The paintings grow like a flow-chart connecting shapes in the form of thought clouds, repeating house shapes and plants actively growing. Some humans step lightly onto the canvas through foliage while others prominantly demand attention. Figures look over each others shoulders, they intermingle and overlap and nestle into each other or are simply alone with their thoughts.
The focal point can be under the horizon line, dead centre or half off the canvas, suggesting a continuing story. My paper and fabric collages play with pattern and juxtaposition of materials which inform my oil painting process. Layers of paint define and then defuse the themes, adding complicated relationships between repeating shapes and the overall composition. Bright details and counterpoints highlight the intricate balancing act intrinsic in life and painting.
The biodiversity of background moments of day-to-day life contribute to the steady hum of energy in the work and watercolour sketches after morning walks serve as research for backgrounds and compositions.
Tangled in the Day, oil on canvas, 84 x 42”, sold
For available work from current galleries please follow this link to a catalogue at Artwork Archive.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 |
UpcomingFeatured Artist |
2022 |
Balancing ActSolo Exhibition |
2019 |
Social SettingsSolo Exhibition |
2016/17 |
Embraced by the LandSolo Exhibition |
2016 |
A Little Truth in EverythingSolo Exhibition |
CounterpointsSolo Exhibition |
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2014 |
Nervous WaitSolo Exhibition |
Rabbit Ear ReceptionSolo Exhibition |
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2012 |
Sunspots and Floating HeadsSolo Exhibition |
The Sun at MidnightSolo Exhibition |
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2011 |
On the SceneSociety of Canadian Artists Members’ Juried Exhibition The Leighton Art Centre / Calgary AB |
Salmon Run ProjectSelected Artists |
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Sounds ProvocativeSelected Artists |
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Forget-Me-NotsSolo Exhibition |
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2010 |
Nowhere to LandSolo Exhibition |
Breadth
Juried Group Exhibition |
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2009 |
41st Open NationalSociety of Canadian Artists (SCA) |
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RootsSociety of Canadian Artists (SCA) Juried Group Exhibition Saint John Arts Centre / Saint John, NB |
2008 |
PROTECTIONSolo Exhibition |
CentennialJuried Exhibition |
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2007 |
CROWDSolo Exhibition |
2006 |
Collaborative International ExhibitionRochester Art Club / Rochester NY USA |
Post-it Notes, Forget-me-nots, Skeletons & Quiet SpotsSolo Exhibition |
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The Seven Deadly SinsGroup Exhibition Invitational |
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2005 |
DefinitionSolo Exhibition |
2004 |
Group ExhibitionSociety of Canadian Artists (SCA) |
2003 |
SupernumeraryGroup Exhibition |
A Forest of IdeasJoint Exhibition |
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2002 |
Private Collection ExhibitionGeorgetown Cultural Centre / Georgetown ON |
1999 |
Art Committee ExhibitionThe Arts & Letters Club of Toronto / Toronto ON |
1998– 1999 |
Private CommissionExecutive List |
1996 |
The ExhibitionistsGraduation Exhibition |
Awards
2023 | Juror’s Award2nd Place Award, Forms, Faces and Spaces, |
2016 | Juror’s Award3rd Place, Headwaters Arts Festival Juried Show |
2015 | Juror’s Choice AwardArtists of Halton Peel, |
2011 | First Prize & Honourable MentionThrough the Eyes of the Artist |
2010 | 2nd Place AwardThrough the Eyes of the Artist |
Award of MeritIntegration, SCA Members’ Juried Exhibition | |
2009 | Honourable MentionJohn Sommer Juried Art Show |
2007 | First Prize14th Annual Juried Art Exhibition |
2006 | Honourable MentionSCA Elected Members’ Small Works Exhibition |
Juror’s Choice Award & Sponsor’s Choice AwardJohn Sommer Juried Art Show | |
Honourable MentionFaces Of Woman | |
2003 | Shirley Al Design AwardInsights, Elora Arts Council |
2000 | Sun Art AwardInsights, Elora Arts Council |
1999 | Honourable MentionWoolfitts Miniature Exhibition |
1997 | Best of Show Award1st Annual Milton Arts Festival |
The Elora Mill AwardInsights, Elora Arts Council | |
1996 | First Place Award9th Annual Miniature Show & Sale |
City Crowd, oil on canvas, 36 x 54”, 2006/07, First Place Award 2007, Lakeshore Arts, Toronto ON, Private Collection
Green Girl, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper, 27 x 19” sold
War Cloud, oil and silver leaf on Hand-cut paper 31.5 x 29.5” sold