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Cheryl Newman

Profession
Associate Lecturer, MA Commercial Photography
College
London College of Communication
Person Type
Staff
Cheryl  Newman

Biography

Cheryl is an Associate Lecturer on MA Commercial Photography at London College of Communication. She is an artist working primarily with photography.

Cheryl studied Fine Art at Brighton University and MA in Photography Arts at the University of Westminster. Her practice explores desire and history and mixes storytelling, fact, and fiction, to examine photographic representation of memory. Cheryl's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including, 'Head On', Sydney, Australia, 'Collective 22' group show, 'Format', Derby, 'On Looking', The National Museum Gdansk, Gdansk Gallery of Photography, 'NOSTOS': The Old Powerhouse Gallery, Paphos, Cyprus for the European Capitol of Culture, 'Pingyao' Photography Festival China, 'Not the Final Major Project', Brighton Photo Fringe, Hastings, 'Probable Lies', Ambika P3 gallery, London, and 'IAMMF', Seoul, Korea, 2018.

Cheryl was a winner of A Portrait of Britain, 2023, with her work exhibited on screens throughout the UK with The British Journal of Photography, JCDecaux and in a publication with Hoxton Mini Press.

Images from her series, 'Sick In Bed' was included in The Eyes #13 / (After)care launched at LA Bal, Paris, during Paris Photo 2022.

Cheryl was included in the Santa Fe Centre for photography, New Mexico USA, mentor programme, 2022 and she received a development grant a-n Artist, 2022, the East Meets West Masterclass 2021-2022.

Cheryl curates for both private and public exhibitions including 'Water', PondyPhoto, Pondicherry, India, 'We Feed the World', 45 photographers documenting the lives of family and peasant farmers globally for book and exhibition, '209 Women', one of the highest profile exhibitions of 2018 in which all the female MPs in the UK Parliament were photographed by women photographers to celebrate 100 years of suffrage and is now part of the Parliamentary Art collection.

Most recently, Cheryl's work has been shown in 'Focus on Female Photographers', a show of feminist photography for Photo Wiens, 2022. For more than fifteen years she was the Photography Director of the award-winning Telegraph Magazine, developing the brand with inventive, exceptional photography.

Cheryl was a nominator for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize Foundation and has served on juries internationally. She co-founded the Dartington Workshops with artist Sian Davey, is a global mentor, and run programmes and workshops in both Norway and the UK.

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