ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Mason Newman
Dark humour, devils and dopamine. A contemporary painter turning fetish, fast food and pop culture into sharp, collectible commentary.
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If Richard Hambleton had a chaotic cousin obsessed with feet and vintage Madonna T-shirts, you’d get Mason Newman. A rising voice in the contemporary art scene, his work is irreverent, darkly funny and often wildly inappropriate – but always uncomfortably honest.
From horny devils to anxious youth and nicotine-stained Snow White, Newman paints the internet’s id. His world sits between meme culture, confession and social commentary – too true to ignore, too funny to cancel.
The art of sexual subtext (and feet)
Mason’s fascination with the human form – particularly feet – has become a defining thread in his work. What started as a private obsession evolved into a full visual language of toes, soles and awkward intimacy.
His foot-themed paintings are both hilarious and uncomfortable, tapping into our strangest impulses. They feel like accidentally opening someone’s search history – funny, revealing, and a bit too honest.
“The Depressed Generation” – a portrait of modern youth
Newman’s ability to balance humour with stark reality is on full display in The Depressed Generation. Borrowing from sugary Disney aesthetics, the work reads like a bright warning label for today’s youth: medicated, overstimulated, exhausted and scrolling for survival.
The limited-edition print transforms that feeling into a collectible artefact of right now – a timestamp for everyone who’s ever felt like the punchline of the internet age.
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“The Beauty of Pain”
One of Mason’s most haunting works, The Beauty of Pain, shows a ballerina mid-performance, surrounded by scattered painkillers, her feet raw and bleeding from relentless dancing.
At first glance, it’s elegant. Look again and it becomes something darker: a picture of sacrifice, of expectation, of being told to keep performing while quietly falling apart.
For Mason, it isn’t just about dancers – it’s about anyone pressured to stay perfect while self-destructing in silence.
The Inventor’s Cat: A horror story in a painting
One of Mason’s most unsettling works, The Inventor’s Cat, tells a tragic tale. Legend has it an unhinged inventor, unwilling to let his beloved feline die, surgically replaced its legs with those of his own children. “The cat kept walking, but the kids never recovered,” Mason narrates ominously.
It’s a twisted take on scientific ambition and the consequences of playing God. Also, it’s a painting of a cat with weird, human baby legs – which is just hilarious and disturbing at the same time.
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