Molly Newham

I am a landscape artist who makes sculptures, drawings, and installations. My work is about coastlines and moors often looking at the local stories and architecture as points of human connection to landscape. My work is cobbled together, built of wrangum and detritus. Polyfilla, sand, plastic tarp, baler twine and electrical tape are some of my favourite things to use. I bring a contemporary critical lense to landscape art by examining the politics of the climate crisis and working-class heritages and realities of a place. 

Molly’s works have an altered perspective of being inside, looking down and through a landscape. I return to drawing as a point of contact and overlap where my obsession with marks, surface, line, and texture merge. 

To resolve ideas, I make large, impending structures that create a feeling of strength, power, and force. In creating drawings, sculptures, and installations Molly creates new worlds and geological forms that reflect the chaotic, evolving, and decaying state of the land. 

I am graduating from the BA Hons Fine Art Programme at the University of Leeds in 2023 and live and work between Scarborough and Leeds. I have exhibited with Crescent Arts, The old Parcel Office and is part of Sunny Bank Mills Ones to Watch 2023.