NewellSTICKS

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They emerge from two distant yet resonant references: the message sticks encountered by Newell GU during travels through Australia, and the logic of mikado, where chance, gravity, and placement generate a new composition each time. One suggests transmission, identity, and coded presence. The other introduces accident, dispersion, and the unexpected order that appears once the elements come to rest.
 

Made of painted wood, the sticks carry the same chromatic and pictorial vocabulary as the canvases while shifting it into space. No longer images, they become signs, markers, and rhythmic elements. Standing, leaning, crossing, or gathering, they create changing relations of balance, tension, and proximity.
 

At once painting, sculpture, and spatial intervention, the Newell STICKS extend Newell GU’s practice beyond the wall and into a more intimate dialogue with architecture and daily life. They function as autonomous objects, but also as fragments of a larger visual language translated into volume, movement, and presence.