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The Sublime Network

An exhibition of work by School of Art PhD candidate Saffron Newey.

The Sublime Network: Painterly Passage and Materiality in the Post Internet Era

This project finds synergy between the Post Enlightenment definition of the sublime and a contemporary fascination in the digital sublime — of which the Internet is champion.

Through painting, Saffron Newey interrogates the Internet in a new and promiscuous way, revealing the paradoxical disparity and conflation that occurs between artworks, oeuvres and artistic identities online.

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Image: Saffron Newey, Cloud (after Güde), Oil on panel, 60 x 90 cm, 2019