Fine Arts, Sydney is presenting an exhibition of new work by Kate Newby. The exhibition centres on a substantial work that has developed over six years. Kate Newby’s ‘miles off road’ is a work that spans the room with handmade ropes from which hang elements formed in materials including bronze, white brass, porcelain, and wood-fired stoneware. It is a work embedded with the passages of time in and between places in North America, and now for its exhibition as fully developed and complete at the gallery in Sydney. Begun in 2017 at Kate Newby’s then-studio in Greenpoint, New York, the work was installed outdoors in 2018 in Long Island City, New York, where for two years it was exposed to the sun, snow, wind, and air of the city. Newby added elements to the work every two months over the course of this time, continually changing and growing the work. In 2020 Newby expanded the work with the addition of new metal pieces cast at a jewellery foundry from forms the artist made in materials as diverse as cooked rice and couscous. While developing this work Newby relocated her home and working studio to a ranch near Floresville, Texas. There she incorporated elements of wood-fired stoneware and refined the arrangement of forms and their suspension from three roughly-parallel lines of handmade ropes tied to wall fixings made in cast bronze. Kate Newby, ‘miles off road‘, 2017—2023. Studio image, Floresville, Texas, 2023.