James Newitt (b. 1981, Hobart, Tasmania) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal and Hobart, Tasmania. His work engages with specific social and cultural relations, often embracing mutability and paradox in order to investigate the spaces between individual and collective identity, memory, history, fact and fiction through personal, observational and performative approaches. Newitt’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Australia and Europe, including Lumiar Cite, Lisbon, 2013; the 2013 Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts, Art Gallery of New South Wales; the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, 2012; the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2009 and 2011; Rosalux, Berlin, 2009 and 2010; The Gallery of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia, 2010; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2010. In 2012 James was awarded the prestigious Samstag Scholarship to participate in the Maumaus Independent Study Program in Lisbon. James is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Tasmania, College of the Arts.