Jabu Nadia Newman
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Jabu Nadia Newman is an award-winning artist and filmmaker who works through the mediums of photography and videography. Pushing intersectional feminism, her work is largely based on the different and complex identities of South African women. In 2020 Newman was commissioned by NOWNESS, British Film Institute and the British Council to write and direct a short film exploring diaspora aesthetics and issues of afro-futurism, The Dream That Refused Me (2021) which won two awards at the Ciclope Africa Awards Festival 2021. Her newest short Inside Out premiered at the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival 2021.
In 2018 Newman exhibited her first solo exhibition titled Mokwena, Macquene, Macquene after being awarded the recipient of the Orms Cape Town School of Photography Artist in Residency program. This exhibition looked at issues of Coloured identity in Retreat, Cape Town, the history of forced removals and the result of her family having to change their surname.
Newman has recently won the 2nd edition Video Art Awards by the Arp Art Residency program Centro Luigi Di Sarro for her film titled untitled:friends which screened at the Corte Lovere Short Film Festival in September 2019.
In 2019 the Museo Meà and the Associazione ‘Asilo dei Creativi di Meano’ presented ‘Jabu Nadia Newman: It Takes A Village’ the artist's first Museum Solo Exhibition in the museum’s main exhibition space from September 7, 2019. This exhibition is curated by Alec Von Bargen, Artistic Director/ Chief Curator. Newman has exhibited in numerous group shows and has had her films screened at numerous film festivals internationally and locally.