First name(s) / Surname: NEWMAN, Timothy David
Address: Penzance, Cornwall TR18 4EX
Telephone/Websites Fixed 01736-364972 Mobile 07906-367783
Nationality: British
Date of birth: 24 June 1956
Gender: Male
Occupational field: Artist and Bodyworker
Self-Employed Artist and Therapist (practitioner/instructor of both) between 1983 and 2011 , ongoing . . .
On the Arts side, my first commission was given to me when I was 15: I continued to paint and take photographs from then on, (winning a photography prize at school , and a travel scholarship to study arts and crafts in Morocco), In 1979 and 1980 I was invited by Felicitas Vogler (“The Quiet Eye”) to go to Ticino and reorganise her photography archive , leading to changes in my own style of photography.Whilst studying acupuncture I was apprenticed as a restorer of antique oriental rugs and carpets, and worked with them between 1982 and 1986, at times managing the shop/gallery, I have subsequently designed and made my own rugs. As a painter I began to exhibit regularly and professionally from 1990 onwards after moving to Cornwall. (see list below). I developed a short workshop to help people pick up or kick-start their painting practise and have taught this in Cornwall and in Spain, as well as giving private tuition. My first qualification in therapeutics enabled me to start a practice of Medical Remedial Massage in Oxford, (co-founding the Oxford Massage Group 1986),then in Penzance, quickly followed by Acupuncture and then Zero Balancing. I became a teacher in the latter as well as a founder of the professional body (ZBA.UK), overseeing studies in UK/Europe. I have taught over 150 workshops at all levels of the skill, and introduced the skills into France,Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal. I have spoken at conferences in Europe, (Ricci Institute,Paris/Oriental Foundation,Lisbon/Nursing College,Zaragoza/DOMO,Barcelona), and USA, (Boston 1989 & 2002), and in 2000 I co-organised the London International ZB Conference, “Worlds Within Worlds” . I have also assisted and translated for Fritz Smith the founder of the Zero Balancing method, have video documented his advanced seminars, and co-trained new teachers , (1995/6 , 2003/4, and 2011-13) as part of an international teacher training program. 2001/2003 Visitng Instructor Upledger Institute , Granada, Spain. I continue to teach abroad as a visiting tutor, and supervisor to newer teachers. I launched the Ambassadors of Touch apprentice program 2010 and have initiated an informal research group on the Nature of Wellbeing (and how to measure it) in 2011
Largely self-taught as an artist, I attended a few experimental evening classes at the Central School of Art in London (1978/9), including a class with Cecil Collins (1983). Subsequently I did a term of painting theory with Mike Chalwin and terracotta sculpture with Teresa Gillder, both at Penzance Art School 1992. I also did two short courses with Robin Child in Wiltshire (1997/8). My informal mentor in Cornwall was John Miller with whom I shared studio space for a while. As a performer I studied with Elkan Ogunde as part of his variety band 78/79, did a full-bodied voice workshop with Frankie Armstrong/Darien Pritchard, several singing workshops with Ida Keralova, an actors workshop with David Shaw (White), Ballet Rambert workshop (Oxford), and several shamanic trainings. E
1983/1984 Diploma in Therapeutic (Medical Remedial) Massage : College of Holistic Medicine (Glasgow/London) – 1982/1985 Licentiate of Acupuncture (Lic.Ac): College of Traditional Acupuncture, Royal Leamington Spa – 1984/1988 Zero Balancing Certification Program (cert.ZB):UK/USA – 1988/1989 Teacher Training Program Zero Balancing Level I/II : Mexico/USA - 1993 Voluntary Joints Teacher Training - 1998 Advanced Neck workshop, Ben Benjamin School of Massage : Boston USA - 2000 David Lauterstein’s “Deep Massage” workshop, Wales/UK - 2000/2001 Alchemy of Touch Teacher Training program , Virginia USA . More Informal Complementary Trainings as part of personal development as practitioner – Mankind Project (New Warriors Mens Group Workshop) - Holotropic Breathwork - Shamanic Soul-Retrieval workshop – Alexander Technique – Chu Akaa - many types of massage/bodywork on at least a monthly basis over 25 years ,(at least 50% of learning these modalities is in receiving them).
October 2011 Bournemouth University Wellbeing Centre - 2011 BAc. Conference Windsor - 2009 BAc Conference/Royal Holloway College - 2009, OffoUrTrollies / Sshh, BBC Radio Cornwall -2008 Live Art Falmouth – Bone : Antenna for Gravity (with Mo Bottomley ) – 1998/9 member of Singing Nuns choir (Vikki Abbott), performing Golowan/Pubs/Truro Museum/Acorn Theatre – 1996 Cabaret: “No Name Restaurant”, Guadalajara, Mexico – 1978/9 Horton Hall Kensington & Commonwealth Institute, London , Sunshine Ogunde’s Variety Band
2003 Central School of Speech & Drama - designing the “Experiential Anatomy” module as part of their new MA in Actor Movement
2005 – 2011 : Volunteer Consultant (Acupuncture/Zero Balancing) at the Helen Bamber Foundation for Survivors of Cruelty (Torture) – 1987-89 MIND Befriending Scheme Penzance/Camborne – 1985/87 Luther Street Portakabin GP Clinic, working as acupucnturist/bodyworker as part of service for alcoholics/drug users and homeless.
Sept 2011 Mounts Bay Contemporary : "A Quiet Strength" - Bristol Bear Bar , "Blokes" July 2011 - July 2010 Cornish Fauve Studio sale and exhibition Penzance - Dec 2007/Jan 2008 – Christmas Studio Show, Falmouth Arts Centre – Sept 2007 “Heroes”, Falmouth Arts Centre – July 2007 Cornish Fauve I/II , Leaf tea House & Gallery,Falmouth – 2006 “Contemporary British Art”, The Millinery Works, London – 2005 “Salon de Mer/Sea Room”, Lennox Gallery ,London – 2004 “ Affordable Art Fair” with Duncan Miller Fine Art, Battersea, London – 2003 “Cornish Fauve”, Foyer Gallery, Traditional Acupuncture Centre, Waterloo,London - 2003 Mixed Exhibition , Market House Gallery ,Marazion - 2001 Open Studio SW, Fulcrum Gallery, Perranuthnoe - 2000 Tim Newman Foyer Gallery, Traditional.Ac.upuncture Centre,Waterloo – 1999 Salisbury Playhouse (with Keith Renninson)- 1998 The Jelly’ Legged Chicken Gallery, Reading – 1997 “Working The Surface” (with Barbara Karn), Camborne School of Mines Museum & Gallery - 1997 “Not The Royal Academy” (Salon des refuses), Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London – 1996 “Peoples, Plants, Places” (with Neil Drury/Helena Wakefield), Market Garden Gallery, Penzance - 1996 “Pigment – Hand of the Eye” Camborne School of Mines Museum & Gallery – 1995 “Tim Newman” Staff House, Birmingham University – Small Works II, Rainy Day Gallery, Penzance – 1993 Tim Newman , The Shivering Blaze Gallery, London – 1993 “Good Company” (with John Miller/Rose Hilton/Romi Behrens/Peter Willis), The Contemporary Gallery, Penzance - 1991 “Here and There”, Bread Street Studio, Penzance – 1990 Mixed Exhibtion, Newlyn Orion Gallery – 1990/1991 work also shown at Beside The Wave (Falmouth),The Salt House, (St Ives) and Tony Saunders (PZ) Camborne SC
The Art of Meaningful Conversation Through Touch The Vocabulary of Touch Nature Of Wellbeing (and how to measure it) “Yes You Can”
ENGLISH / French, Spanish (fluent in all)
Between A level and starting university I travelled to Africa overland for a year (1975) – I then completed 1 year of a BA Joint Honours degree in Comparative Law and Social Anthroplogy at SOAS,London , during which time I was granted a trravel bursary to go to Ghana and observe they customary courts in action (1975/76) – After leaving early in the second year, I worked in various menial and admin jobs, then became reservations clerk/promoted to manager, of Afro Asian Travel Centre in London/Paris (1976/1978). For the next four years (1978 /1982 ), I alternated traveliing abroad and working part time and being an artist ( including writing a novel later destroyed), until my acceptance on the acupuncture training course which I graduated from in 1985. Since when I have been in continuous self-employment, with accounts going back to 1983 when I began practice supported by the new Enterprise Allowance scheme..
On the one hand I am a self-reliant individual who runs his own ship – on the other I have skills and experience in social and organisation settings (team work – teacher training programs – professional society running - conference/workshop/exhibition organizing and curating).I am particularly adept at multi tasking and integrating approaches. Guide and courier . Clean driving licence. Computer literate.