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Hayley Newman is Reader in Performance at Chelsea College of Art and Design. She has performed and exhibited widely and has had solo shows at Matt’s Gallery, London, The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, The Longside Gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. Her work has shown in group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum, Lucerne; Montevideo, Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and Tate Modern, London.

Her recent work includes MKVH (Milton Keynes Vertical Horizontal, 2006), an event in which volunteers were driven around the Milton Keynes road grid until their coach ran out of diesel. The book MKVH (The Screenplay) documented this event and was written in the style of the original Easy Rider screenplay from 1969.  It is an edited transcript of conversations occurring between participants on the 39 hour trip. The book also includes diary entries, photos, drawings, radio interviews and local and national news stories and employs a cut-up technique that mixes fact and fiction into an occasionally seamless narrative.

Last summer she worked in collaboration with artist/writer Andrea Mason on the project Bankspeak a Capitalists Anonymous meeting in the city of London. For C.A. Hayley and Andrea organised a series of three clandestine meetings on the steps of the Royal Exchange. The project drew on the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step program, and was seen as a ‘therapeutic intervention’ to help ex-bankers survive the current economic crisis.

She is currently working with Kaffe Matthews and Gina Birch (aka The Gluts) on their project Café Carbon, which they have just returned from performing on the streets of Copenhagen during the United Nations Climate Summit. Café Carbon is an eco-electro musical that consists of a menu of songs from which people can select starters, mains or desserts. She lives and works in London and is represented by Matt’s Gallery. www.hayleynewman.com