Hayley Newman (b 1969) received a BA at Middlesex University before gaining a Higher Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Slade School of Art. In 1995 she took up a DAAD scholarship in the class of Marina Abramovi? at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg after which she was awarded the Stanley Burton Practice-based Research Scholarship at the University of Leeds, completing her PhD in 2001. She is currently a Graduate Tutor in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design and in 2005/6 was Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art. In 2004/5, she was the recipient of the Helen Chadwick Arts Council of England Fellowship at the British School at Rome and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. She has performed and exhibited widely and has had solo shows at Matt’s Gallery, London, The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2001-2003). Recent performances include Their feet should not touch anything solid, Camden Arts Centre, London; ffffashion, South London Gallery, London; Karoake Record Cutting, Barbican Art Gallery, London; Make-up/wake-up, Rialto, Rome; Volcano Lady, British School at Rome (all 2005). Recent group exhibitions include Chronic Epoch, Beaconsfield Gallery, London; Her Noise, South London Gallery, London; Documentary Creations, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne; Resonance, Montevideo, Amsterdam (all 2005);Camera/Action, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2004) and Live Culture, Tate Modern, London (2003). Her current interest in Rubbernecking describes the act of slowing down, craning the neck and straining to look and involves a series of trips to places reported in the daily news. She lives and works in London and is represented by Matt’s Gallery. Accessed 05.01.2008 from http://www.hayleynewman.com/cv/