• News
  • About
  • Performance
    • The Festival of Curves, Slopes and Detours (2018)
    • Facing (2012)
    • MKVH [Milton Keynes Vertical Horizontal] (2006)
    • The Volcano Lady (2004)
    • The Daily Hayley (2001)
    • Connotations Performance Images 1994-1998 (1998)
    • Ecomiss (1994)
  • Sound & music
    • MiniFlux (2005)
    • Wrapping (2000)
    • Hook and Eye (1998)
    • Crystalline I, II and III (1997)
    • Shot in the Dark (1996)
    • Tour (1995)
    • Record (1994)
  • Textiles & works on paper
    • Tongue-tied (2019)
    • Histoire Economique (2011-14)
    • Domestique (2010-13)
  • Writing
    • Bastards (2019)
    • A to B in MK (2018)
    • Elfie und Eleonore (2013)
    • Common (2013)
    • The Smelly Hillock, 2010
    • MKVH [The Screenplay] (2007)
  • Collaborations
    • HAND (2018-2020)
    • Crisis Cabaret (2013)
    • Cafe Carbon by The Gluts (2009)
    • Bankspeak (2009)
    • A Secret Sculpture (2006-7)
  • Covid
    • About this section
    • Pillows and Lungs (2020)
    • 2020
    • loss and anger, anger and loss (2020)
    • Legs (2020)
    • Wobbly lines for very difficult times (2020)
    • Keeping Track... (2020- )
    • Untitled (2021)
    • Slow (2021)
    • Switch (2021)
    • Letters + Envelopes (2021-2)
    • LifeLines (envelopes), 2021- 

Hayley Newman

Artist, performer, writer, teacher

  • News
  • About
  • Performance
    • The Festival of Curves, Slopes and Detours (2018)
    • Facing (2012)
    • MKVH [Milton Keynes Vertical Horizontal] (2006)
    • The Volcano Lady (2004)
    • The Daily Hayley (2001)
    • Connotations Performance Images 1994-1998 (1998)
    • Ecomiss (1994)
  • Sound & music
    • MiniFlux (2005)
    • Wrapping (2000)
    • Hook and Eye (1998)
    • Crystalline I, II and III (1997)
    • Shot in the Dark (1996)
    • Tour (1995)
    • Record (1994)
  • Textiles & works on paper
    • Tongue-tied (2019)
    • Histoire Economique (2011-14)
    • Domestique (2010-13)
  • Writing
    • Bastards (2019)
    • A to B in MK (2018)
    • Elfie und Eleonore (2013)
    • Common (2013)
    • The Smelly Hillock, 2010
    • MKVH [The Screenplay] (2007)
  • Collaborations
    • HAND (2018-2020)
    • Crisis Cabaret (2013)
    • Cafe Carbon by The Gluts (2009)
    • Bankspeak (2009)
    • A Secret Sculpture (2006-7)
  • Covid
    • About this section
    • Pillows and Lungs (2020)
    • 2020
    • loss and anger, anger and loss (2020)
    • Legs (2020)
    • Wobbly lines for very difficult times (2020)
    • Keeping Track... (2020- )
    • Untitled (2021)
    • Slow (2021)
    • Switch (2021)
    • Letters + Envelopes (2021-2)
    • LifeLines (envelopes), 2021- 

About

 

My work operates at the intersections of performance, writing, sculpture, textiles, music, pedagogy, and activism. It is often impermanent and exploratory, establishing relations between people, structures and social situations. I have made work individually and collectively, in nightclubs and shops, on trains, buses and marches, as well as for concert halls, galleries and books. I’m particularly invested in creative projects that imagine and prefigure liveable futures, communal life, and ecological stability.

Over the past decade I have developed ways of working that embrace the written word: sung passages, ekphrastic letters, knitted language, sculpted sentences, sewn messages and expressive typography. Penning, inscribing, marking, doodling and scribbling.

My current work explores epistemic justice, with recent writing taking the form of an investigative/emotional environmental novel that calls for environmentally-just futures. Other writing includes Pillows, a series of texts about economics, care, disability and the environment.

I live and work in London and am represented by Matt’s Gallery.

This website is under construction.

Hayley Newman

All works copyright Hayley Newman and their respective authors, 2025