Artist Booth Talk: Dr Saffron Newey

In conversation with Sophie Vander, Director of Curatorial+Co., Dr Saffron Newey discusses her interdisciplinary practice spanning painting, drawing, and digital media, as well as her interrogation of the internet’s impact on the original art object. Newey’s work navigates five centuries of Western art history, drawing from sublime landscape traditions — referencing Dutch Baroque, French Rococo, American and Norwegian Romanticism, and stock photography clichés. Sourced from online archives and digitally reimagined through painting, her landscapes reflect a contemporary sublime: the internet itself. Join Newey and Vander for a discussion on hyper-romanticism and paintings as visual ‘power ballads’ — dedications to longing, memory, and lost connections.

Location: Curatorial+Co., Booth E02