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.

Bookings available.

Tina Newlove - Nowhere To Land - Original Oil Painting

Nowhere to Land, oil on canvas, 26 x 50”, Private Collection

Education

1992

– 1996

McMaster University 
Hamilton, On

BFA Honours (Graduated with Distinction)

Grants

2016

Ontario Arts Council

Exhibition Grant: A Little Truth in Everything, Solo Exhibition
Williams Mill Visual Art Centre / Glen Williams ON

2014

Ontario Arts Council

Exhibition Grant: Nervous Wait, Solo Exhibition
Nathaniel Hughson Gallery / Hamilton ON

2012

Canada Council for the Arts

Travel Grant: Tribe of One PerformanceGathering of Nations
Albuquerque, New Mexico USA

2011

Ontario Arts Council

Exhibition Grant : Sunspots and Floating Heads, Solo Exhibition
Strata Gallery / Elora ON

2008

Ontario Arts Council

Exhibition and Education Grants: PROTECTION, Solo Exhibition,
The Latcham Gallery / Stouffville ON
PROTECTION.PDF

1999

Foreign Affairs Department of Canada

Travel Grant: Tribe of One Performance, ‘The Return’ UNICEF and WARCHILD Benefit Concerts
Pristina Kosovo

Curatorial Reviews

2008 Oct

– 2008 Nov

PROTECTION Catalogue

Maura Broadhurst, Curator,  ISBN#978-0-9811100-0-4
Latcham Gallery / Stouffville ON
PROTECTION CATALOGUE PDF

2006 Feb

– 2006 Mar

Seven Deadly Sins

Maura Broadhurst, Curator
Latcham Gallery / Stouffville ON

Tina Newlove - Checking The Mail - Original Art

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

Tina Newlove - Organizing My Mind - Original Oil Painting

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 Project

City of Hamilton / Hamilton ON

Milton Hospital Original Art
Milton District Hospital, MainEntrance, Mural in Foyer
Tina’s’ motivation is similar to the driving force of James Joyce who would not allow knowledge to be simply intellectual, but included scent, taste and touch to illustrate the essence of his writing. Painting and drawing results from an awakened imagination. …. Tina seeks to reach the unseen.
David F. Ritchie FRSA
Founder & President, Ritchie Fine Art Auctions
Tina is a dynamic and exceptionally creative young woman. Her artwork has been featured at several of our fundraising events and we continue to be impressed by her exceptional talent and humanitarian spirit.
Samatha Nutt, MD
MSc, FRCP(C) Executive Director, War Child Canada
Organizing My Mind, a beautiful and engaging painting, is a welcome addition to the City’s art collection. Newlove has created a visually stunning and accomplished work of art through colour, composition and presentation.
Pamela Wachna
Coordinator, Collections & Outreach, City of Toronto
Tina is an excellent painter and has an evolved and thoughtful body of work. Amongst my peers in the art program at McMaster University she was in the top of our class in talent amongst heavy hitters like Christina Sealey . An emotive palette, strong metaphors and consistent iconography and style all make for a show worth seeing and art worth collecting.
Dan Banko
Banko Creative Studio
A Song Grew Through My Ribcage bronze original art by Tina Newlove

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.

Tine Newlove - Tangled In The Day - Oil Painting

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

Upcoming

Featured Artist
Jordan Art Gallery / Station ON

2022

Balancing Act

Solo Exhibition
Carnegie Gallery / Dundas ON

2019

Social Settings

Solo Exhibition
Towne Square Gallery / Oakville ON

2016/17

Embraced by the Land

Solo Exhibition
CBC Building / Toronto ON

2016

A Little Truth in Everything

Solo Exhibition
Williams Mill Visual Art Centre / Glen Williams ON


Counterpoints

Solo Exhibition
Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall / Kitchener On

2014

Nervous Wait

Solo Exhibition
Nathaniel Hughson Gallery / Hamilton ON

Rabbit Ear Reception

Solo Exhibition
The Gallery Upstairs at Mill St. & Bronte / Milton ON

2012

Sunspots and Floating Heads

Solo Exhibition
Strata Gallery / Elora ON

The Sun at Midnight

Solo Exhibition
The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto / Toronto ON

2011

On the Scene

Society of Canadian Artists Members’ Juried Exhibition The Leighton Art Centre / Calgary AB

Salmon Run Project

Selected Artists
Art Gallery of Mississauga / Mississauga ON

Sounds Provocative

Selected Artists
Guelph Jazz festival / Guelph ON

Forget-Me-Nots

Solo Exhibition
Redeemer College / Ancaster ON

2010

Nowhere to Land

Solo Exhibition
XEXE Gallery / Toronto ON

Breadth

Juried Group Exhibition
Roberts Gallery / Toronto ON

2009

41st Open National

Society of Canadian Artists (SCA) 
Papermill Gallery / Toronto ON


Roots

Society of Canadian Artists (SCA) Juried Group Exhibition Saint John Arts Centre / Saint John, NB

2008

PROTECTION

Solo Exhibition
Latcham Gallery / Stouffville ON

Centennial

Juried Exhibition
The Arts & Letters Club and Varley Gallery / Toronto ON, Unionville ON

2007

CROWD

Solo Exhibition
Williams Mill Visual Art Centre / Glen Williams ON

2006

Collaborative International Exhibition

Rochester Art Club / Rochester NY USA

Post-it Notes, Forget-me-nots, Skeletons & Quiet Spots

Solo Exhibition
Leonardo Gallery / Yorkville, Toronto ON

The Seven Deadly Sins

Group Exhibition Invitational
Latcham Gallery / Stouffville ON

2005

Definition

Solo Exhibition
Leonardo Gallery / Forest Hill, Toronto ON

2004

Group Exhibition

Society of Canadian Artists (SCA)
Heliconian Hall / Toronto ON

2003

Supernumerary

Group Exhibition
The Fanny Larouche Artspace / Toronto ON

A Forest of Ideas

Joint Exhibition
The Carnegie Gallery / Dundas ON

2002

Private Collection Exhibition

Georgetown Cultural Centre / Georgetown ON

1999

Art Committee Exhibition

The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto / Toronto ON

1998

– 1999

Private Commission

Executive List
The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto / Toronto ON

1996

The Exhibitionists

Graduation Exhibition
McMaster Museum of Art / Hamilton ON

Awards

2023

Juror’s Award

2nd Place Award, Forms, Faces and Spaces,
Halton Hills Cultural Centre, Georgetown ON

2016

Juror’s Award

3rd Place, Headwaters Arts Festival Juried Show
Alton Mills Art Centre / Alton ON

2015

Juror’s Choice Award

Artists of Halton Peel,
Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre / Oakville ON

2011

First Prize & Honourable Mention

Through the Eyes of the Artist
Lakeshore Arts / Toronto ON

2010

2nd Place Award

Through the Eyes of the Artist
Lakeshore Arts / Toronto ON

 
Award of Merit

Integration, SCA Members’ Juried Exhibition
The Art Gallery of Hamilton / Hamilton ON

2009

Honourable Mention

John Sommer Juried Art Show
Halton Hills Cultural Centre / Georgetown ON

2007

First Prize

14th Annual Juried Art Exhibition
Lakeshore Arts / Toronto ON

2006

Honourable Mention

SCA Elected Members’ Small Works Exhibition
Parry Sound Station Gallery / Parry Sound ON

 
Juror’s Choice Award & Sponsor’s Choice Award

John Sommer Juried Art Show
Halton Hills Cultural Centre / Georgetown ON

 
Honourable Mention

Faces Of Woman
Las Vegas Arts Council / New Mexico USA

2003

Shirley Al Design Award

Insights, Elora Arts Council
Wellington County Museum / Fergus ON

2000

Sun Art Award

Insights, Elora Arts Council
Wellington County Museum / Fergus ON

1999

Honourable Mention

Woolfitts Miniature Exhibition
Woolfitts / Toronto ON

1997

Best of Show Award

1st Annual Milton Arts Festival
Victoria Park / Milton ON

 
The Elora Mill Award

Insights, Elora Arts Council
Wellington County Museum / Fergus ON

1996

First Place Award

9th Annual Miniature Show & Sale
Gibson Gallery / London ON

Tine Newlove - City Crowd - Oil Painting

City Crowd, oil on canvas, 36 x 54”, 2006/07, First Place Award 2007, Lakeshore Arts, Toronto ON, Private Collection

Tine Newlove - Green Girl - Oil Painting

Green Girl, Acrylic on Watercolour Paper, 27 x 19” sold

Tine Newlove - War Cloud - Oil Painting

War Cloud, oil and silver leaf on Hand-cut paper 31.5 x 29.5” sold