The Entangled World of Newell Harry

How would you describe yourself as an artist?

I don’t really see myself as an artist. I’m more of a collector. I’m picking up and reconnecting things that I might have found ten years ago. I tend to approach time from a more organic perspective than the artworld, which is run in such a linear, forward-thinking way: shows and programs are always made in advance, always future-tense which I feel tends to compromise the present. My particular process is about enfolding the past into the present. It’s more about looking backwards in order to forge a way forward; horizontal rather than vertical. Over the last few decades, I’ve been collecting a nebulous archive of photographs,