Born in Melbourne, 1962, Elizabeth Newman has been making and exhibiting art throughout Australia and overseas since the 1980s. A painter by training, she has expanded her practice over the years to include wall works, objects, text-based works and writing. Her innovative and experimental work has been of significant influence upon her contemporaries and, further, on younger generations of artists who regard her work as exemplary. Newman's work is regarded as a significant advance to formalist-conceptualist discourse in Australia, and her writing is turned to as incisive articulations of this aesthetic and psychological terrain. Her broader conception of practice has also been influential and has seen her working beyond an individual subjective position as collaborator, project-space board member, and vocal and intellectually rigorous member of the art community.