ROSIE NEWMAN
Multidisciplinary Artist | Lecturer | Researcher
Cromarty, Scottish Highlands, Scotland
Profile
Rosie Newman is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, performance, socially engaged practice, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her work explores ecology, biodiversity, landscape, embodied experience, and the unseen systems shaping relationships between people and place.
Through collaborations with scientists, communities, and cultural organisations, her practice investigates how art can reveal hidden environmental narratives and deepen sensory engagement with the natural world. Recent research-led projects include exhibitions, workshops, and publications exploring climate change, Antarctic microalgae, ecological connection, and immersive environmental experience.
Education
MA Art & Social Practice (Distinction)
University of the Highlands & Islands, Shetland
Postgraduate Teaching Qualification in Further Education
Stirling University
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture
Camberwell School of Art, University of the Arts London
BTEC Diploma in Art & Design
Suffolk College
Additional Qualifications
John Muir Award Leader
John Muir Conservation Award
Selected Research, Publications & Residencies
2024–2026
Making the Invisible Visible
Research collaboration with the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), exploring Antarctic microalgae through sculpture, photography, moving image, exhibition, workshops, and performance: touring exhibition and public engagement programme across Ocean Explorer Centre, UHI Inverness, and Cromarty.
Publication:
Making the Invisible Visible: Exploring the microalgal world through the lens of art
Taylor & Francis, Applied Phycology
2025
The Space Between
Workshop Facilitator, Creative Learning Exchange, Findhorn Bay Arts
2024
Cove Park Research Residency Support Award, UHI
2021
The Liminal Zone
Research Associate, Carnegie Trust & UHI Centre for Remote and Sustainable Communities
2019
Publication in Relate North: Collaborative Art, Design and Education (INSEA)
Chapter: Immerse: Connecting Nature Using Technology
2019
Speaker, Arctic Sustainable Art & Design Symposium, Norway
2018
Research Residency & Scholarship Award, Art Point Gumno, Macedonia
Selected Exhibitions
Solo & Collaborative
2026
Seven Takes on Time, An Talla Solais, Ullapool
2024–2026
Making the Invisible Visible, Scottish Association for Marine Science
2019
Pilgrimage, Relate North Exhibition, Komi Republic, Russia
2019
Stravaig, Moray Art Centre
2012
Sometimes I Feel More Awake When I’m Asleep, IG:LU, Inverness
Curatorial Practice & Major Installations
2011–2015
Art Curator, Outdoor Arts Programme
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival
Curated and programmed large-scale outdoor artworks by professional artists, emerging practitioners, and recent graduates. Managed commissioning, placement, and presentation of site-responsive installations across the festival landscape.
Exhibited installations, including sculptures, audio, land-based, and audio art.
Large-scale sculptural works exploring environment, transformation, and social structures through found materials and installation.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
UHI Art Staff Group Show
Cromarty 49th Group Show
2024
Treasures, Gairloch Museum
The Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2022
Terrafabulations, Circus Art Space, Inverness
2021–22
The Liminal Zone Exhibition
Moray UHI, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Rockfield Centre, Oban, Stirling University
2018
Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibition
Awards
Visual Artist & Craft Makers Award (2022)
HISA Most Inspiring Lecturer Award (2021)
Creative Cromarty Award (2015)
UHI Research & Travel Awards (2010, 2016, 2018)
Hi-Arts Visual Arts Awards (2007, 2010)
Professional Practice
Lecturer
UHI Inverness
Previous roles include:
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Curator, Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival Outdoor Arts
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Creative Lecturer, Porterfield Prison
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Art & nature workshop facilitator with Highland Climate Hub, RSPB, Clayworks and community organisations
Projects include seaweed, biodiversity, ecology, and marine and bird-focused workshops connecting creative practice with environmental awareness.
Memberships
Scottish Artists Union
Royal Society of Arts
Black Isle Collective
Educational Institute of Scotland
Research Interests
Ecological Art Practice • Social Art Practice • Storytelling • Marine Ecologies • Embodied Practice • Phenomenology • Material-led practice • Interdisciplinary Science-Art Collaboration • Multidisciplinary Art Practice • Visual & Contemporary Arts