b. 1986, Salisbury, England
Lives & works in Bristol, England
Artist’s statement:
Milo Newman is an artist and researcher who works with photography, sound recordings and written texts. Through these media he translates landscapes, cultural histories and concepts of place into artworks. There are two main strands to this practice: archive-based projects that critically interrogate historical socio-cultural landscape interactions to explore how we have come to inhabit the ‘Anthropocene’; and multi-disciplinary, post-phenomenological engagements with specific places that ask now we are here, how does it feel to be so. He produces exhibitions, installations, and artist’s books.
Milo also works as an interdisciplinary researcher in Human Geography, using participatory and practice-based methods to explore ecological change, extinction, and more-than-human heritages. His work includes peer-reviewed publications, public engagement projects, and collaborations across academic and arts institutions.
Education:
2020–25: PhD (Human Geography and Environmental Humanities), University of Bristol – ‘The Lifeworlds of Decline: Creative Interventions in the spaces of seabird extinction’ (funded by AHRC SWW DTP)
2016–18: MA Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University (with Distinction)
2012–14: MA Photography and the Land, University of Plymouth (with Distinction)
2005–08: BA (Hons) Documentary Photography, University of South Wales (First Class)
Selected publications:
Newman, M., 2025, ‘Viral Clouds, Corporeal Concerns: Emotion, vulnerability and care amid circulations of avian influenza’, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 8:6, pp. 1890–1911.
Newman, M., 2024, ‘Remembered Belonging: Encounters with the spectral more-than amidst landscapes of decline’, cultural geographies 32:1, pp. 75–91.
Awards:
2020: AHRC SWW2 DTP Doctoral Studentship
2016: Study Scholarship, Bath Spa University
2015: Winner of the Magnum Photos Graduate Photographers Award
2013: Bristol Green Capital Artist Award
2009: Selected for the reGeneration 2 project by the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Selected exhibitions:
2022: Colony, Kelp Store, Papa Westray, Orkney
2019: The Mapping of Jan Mayen, University of Bristol, England
2018: Bird After Bird, Steelworks Gallery, Brigg, England (Arts Council England funded)
2017: EarthArt#2, Earth Sciences Department, University of Bristol, England
2017: Bird After Bird, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn, England
2016: Longing for the Landscape: Landscape Photography in the Anthropocene, Tieranatomische Theater, Humboldt University, Berlin (European Month of Photography)
2016: On Landscape #3, Lower Herwood Farm, Dorset, England
2015: By the Mark, the Deep, Arnolfini, Bristol, England
2015: On Landscape #2, Castelnuovo Fotografia Festival, Castelnuovo, Italy
2015: On Landscape #2, Matèria, Rome, Italy
2015: By the Mark, the Deep, Spike Island, Bristol, England
2015: Flow, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth, England
2014: reGeneration2: Landskrona Museum, Landskrona, Sweden
2014: Beyond the Camera, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
2013: reGeneration2: DeVos Art Museum, Michigan, USA
Selected conferences, artist talks and academic presentations:
2023: Making amidst extinction symposium, Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol
2023: Auk Egg Palimpsest, Nature in/and/of/the archive panel, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, England
2023: Auk Eggs and Incubation: Creatively marking time amidst the temporalities of extinction, European Society for Environmental History Conference, Bern, Switzerland
2023: Mourning Auks: Exploring creative articulations of ecological loss, Environmental Emotions Workshop: Theory, Testimony, Politics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
2022: Auk Eggs and Incubation: the importance of livable worlds, The Art and Science of Species Resurrection, University of York, England
2022: Fossil Matters, LVL seminar, University of Bristol, England
2019: The Mapping of Jan Mayen artist’s talk, University of Bristol, England
2018: Skein, Bird After Bird Research Day, Steelworks Gallery, Brigg
2017: EarthArt: Geological Memory, University of Bristol School of Earth Sciences