Naomi 2020
.Naomi is an ex-mermaid,
an eco-crusader,
fashionista model originally from Westernport Bay, Australia.
She has a pet hamster
and a message for the World…
Presented at the Flinders Fringe Festival 2025
The Colour of Death: White 2019
New is a performing artist whom embodies the process of mitigating factors and the human response to the tragedy of Global Warming on essential coral reefs- particularly Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Corals are unique creatures that live in a symbiotic relationship with certain algae. The beautiful and sensitive corals, the forests of the ocean, die from minor changes in water temperature. The dying process begins with the termination of the relationship with the algae which causes the corals to die and turn white – the colour of death, not only for the coral but the reefs, their inhabitants and ultimately life on earth. Together, the artists, creatively raise awareness of the plight of our coral reefs.
Presented at the ClimArte Festival and the West Projection Festival in 2019
In collaboration: performance artist Gabrielle Leah New & visual artist Carolyn Cardinet create immersive works that merge wearables, sculpture, performance, environmental inquiry to invite reflection & action towards our relationship with the natural world
Tie A Yellow Ribbon 2024
Tie a Yellow Ribbon 2024 weaves a poignant narrative of human connection to the natural world. A collaborative installation of sculpture and performance video, exploring the delicate balance between nurturing and exploitation. Golden yellow baling twine, a symbol of industry and control, is juxtaposed with organic forms, creating a visual tension that mirrors our complex relationship with the Earth. The human body, both vulnerable and resilient, becomes a canvas for this exploration. Through the delicate sculptures and multi-layered video the work invites reflection on our relationship with nature and the woven interconnectedness between all life on Earth. It calls for us to reweave our connection to the natural world with care and responsibility, urging us to tie a metaphorical yellow ribbon around the old oak tree of our world in a gesture of hope or solidarity.
Presented at The Yarra Sculpture Gallery 2025
Waiting for Change 2023
‘Waiting for Change’ is a despondent reflection of the artists’ feelings and impotency around climate, environmental, political and humanitarian change. Feeling silenced, stuck in a loop and frozen as the world burns and crumbles. Six masked, silenced figures in black wait at a train station in a psychological exploration of living in a time on the precipice of destruction. The simple somewhat boring postures captured in time-lapse and slowed down explore the frustration with waiting for systems to change. The original soundtrack hears time ticking away beneath a haunting soundscape of surreal and disturbing noises as the dancers glitch and freeze.
Presented in 2023 in Hobart at LOOP, Hobart City Council..
Mirror World: a silent witness 2020
A collaboration between Gabrielle Leah New and Carolyn Cardinet, ‘Silent Witness’ explores ideas of waste, non-renewable resources, mining and forest destruction. The installation comprises three performance videos embedded within a maze of hanging bicycle inner-tubes creating a haunted forest-like experience. The centre of the maze is a pool of black oil with a projection of morphing faces mingling with audiences’ reflections. It is a place for contemplation about our responsibility for climate destruction. The other two video performances talk to humans’ relationship with nature asking are we Interconnected (Mirror-World) or a ‘Glitch in the system’?
Presented at Testing Grounds Emporium 2020