About me

Cheryl Newman is an artist and independent curator of photography living in London. She recently completed and MA in Photography Arts at the University of Westminster (Distinction) Her personal practice explores her history though archive and family images and the revisiting of memory and belonging. Recent curatorial projects include; 'Time to See', The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust: Exhibition and book, focusing on avoidable blindness within Commonwealth countries. 'We Feed the World', documenting the lives of 50 family and peasant farmers globally, which premiered at the Barge house Gallery, London 2018; She curated '209 Women', one of the highest profile exhibitions of 2018 in which all the female MP's in the UK Parliament were photographed by women photographers to celebrate 100 years of suffrage and which moved to Open Eye Gallery Liverpool in February 2019, and is now part of the Parliamentary Art collection. For more than fifteen years she was the Photography Director of the award-winning Telegraph Magazine where she raised the profile of the magazine and commissioned intelligent and inventive photography worldwide. She is a nominator for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize Foundation and serves on juries globally, including; The Moran prize for Contemporary Photography, Sydney, Australia, and 'The Eugene Smith Grant', jury 2019. She was the chair of the RPS Photography Awards . Cheryl is also an educator, runs the Dartington Workshops with artist Sian Davey and an ongoing mentor programme in Oslo, Norway.