Tim Newth is the Co-Artistic Director of Tracks with David McMicken. Tim originally trained as a visual artist where he explored the manipulation of the world through this medium – usually a still image. However, after his training he began working with dance companies to further explore his interest in the visual through movement.

PHOTO: David McMicken

Today Newth excels at uniting the visual with the physical working in dance, theatre and community cultural development. It is in his ability to meld many forms that he finds the vehicle for making his own artistic statements – comments that unite and inspire people.

Newth has a particular love of space and of placing movement and visual imagery within it. It is this passion, combined with his skill that has gained him recognition for creating large-scale, outdoor, site-specific performances.

Newth has worked in the Territory for more than 15 years. He has developed a particularly intimate working relationship with the Warlpiri people from Lajamanu, located about 950 km south of Darwin, on the edge of the Tanami Desert. It is here that he first met the Lajamanu Yawalyu Ceremonial Dancers and this relationship deepens as Newth and McMicken continue to explore and develop ways of combining the visual arts with Indigenous and non-Indigenous dance forms in performance.

Updated 30/04/2007