"Making a piano in Spain". First edition. Published by the Wellcome Trust

Hard back, 294 pages. Includes a forward by Ken Arnold and a contextual essay by Dr Jonathan Willett. ISBN- 978- 1- 84129- 0799.

"Preston Market Mystery Project" (2008) First edition. The Harris Museum, UK.

Hard back edition, includes a forword essay by Bob Dickenson, a unique analysis section by John Newling and a DVD of the live reading event and edited film of the project. ISBN 978-1-871575-27-9

Whilst the publication is, in part, a lavish archive of this major project it also contains two, unique to the publication, projects; ‘The Propositional Stalls’ and ‘Constructing a Mystery.’ Throughout the duration of the project the artist had been forming sets of propositional analysis of the 280 mysteries gained from the first event. Using statistical data from the 280 mysteries each proposed stall has a graphical visualisation of its contents. The nature of this process, one of reasoned analysis, paradoxically enforces the context of many of the mysteries, that of incomprehensibility to reason. The propositions construct stalls through reasoned knowledge whilst being wholly imaginative in their proposal; offering new knowledge and possibilities. The final mystery (Mystery 281) is constructed entirely through this process.

The publication has fully illustrated sections on the three events, (the insurance stall, voicing mysteries and the new knowledge meal). It also contains notes by the artist and an essay by Bob Dickenson reviewing the relationship of the project to the context of the market place.

£30 including P&P. Obtainable from the Harris Museum, (order by email) or from John Newling by email.

"An Essential Disorientation" (2007) First Edition. SARP, Poland.

Commissioned by the Polish Museum of Contemporary Sacred Art and published by SARP. 180 page hard back book 'An essential Disorientation' is published in English and Polish. ISBN 978-83-922964-0-9

This project evolved over an 18 month period and is an extensive essay that attempts to link contemporary arts practice to notions of the sacred. The essay contextualizes the sacred in many aspects of our condition and situation. It deploys the anthropological method of the liminal structure by way of making connections. The book is fully illustrated with prior project that, have consciously or not, been sub-structured by the liminal. The book also has a fine contextualizing forward by Richard Davey titled 'Charting the Liminal.'

The essay begins...At a time when many ideologies have all but blown themselves out; when meaning seems to have become meaningless in a strangely nihilistic void; when, in our sophistication, we find as our ancestors did that we are fearful of the unpredictability of nature; when knowledge as causality seems to become increasingly predetermined; it seems appropriate to review the relationship we have with nature as a sacred process...

For further information and to purchase a copy in the UK please e-mail john@john-newling.com The price is £20 including postage and packaging.

Chatham Vines

This limited edition hardback artist book documents John Newling's award winning Chatham Vines installation in St John's Church Chatham, Kent. In September 2004 thirty two Pinot Noir grape vines were planted in the central aisle of the disused church positioned either side of a 15 metre steel construction. The vines were grown for one year using hydroponics technology. At night the church was lit from within and two cameras continuously streamed images of the project to a dedicated website www.chathamvines.com. Before the vines were removed the grapes were harvested and made into wine, some of which was used in the Easter Sunday Eucharist Service at Rochester Cathedral and the rest will be available in Autumn 2006. Made possible with support from the Arts Council and Nottingham Trent University.
Designed by John Morgan Studio, limited to 500 copies. Text by Paul Bonaventura, Mark Bradbury, Rachel Jacobs, Laura Knight and Louise Francis, Peter Lock, John Newling, Andrew Spira and Isabel Vasseur and photographs by Matt Bray.
Published by ArtOffice 2006
ISBN 0954360818
Available from ArtOffice

Writings by John Newling 1995 - 2005

Writings by John Newling 1995 - 2005
Designed by Casciani Evans Wood - www.cascianievans.com
Published by SWPA
ISBN : 0-9547300-2-x

The Westonbirt Wishes

Published by SWPA in conjunction with the National Forestry Commission and the National Arboretum, Westonbirt.
ISBN 0 9547300 11

Stamping Uncertainty

Published by SWPA in conjunction with the Installation at Canterbury Cathedral
Includes Essays by John Newling and Andrew Spira, of Christie’s Education
ISBN 0 9547300 03

Twenty first Century Methodologies for Arts Production

Presentation delivered at PZI Institute, Rotterdam

A Short Walk

An essay re-published for The Now Festival, Nottingham 2003

Installation art in the new millennium.

The empire of the senses.
Published by Thames and Hudson.
Nicholas De Oliveira Nicola Oxley Michael Petry
ISBN 0-500-23808-1

Sculpture in 20th - Century Britain Vol 2.

Published by the Henry Moore Institute.
Essay by Simon Herbert.
ISBN 1-900081-04-0

Currency and Belief

Published by Yorkshire Sculpture Park in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. Includes essays by Antonia Payne, Simon Herbert, Clare Lilley and John Newling.
ISBN 1-871-480-41-8

Public Art Forum

Paper given at the conference at Royal Court Theatre, London.

Fermentation

Helsinki. September 2003. Keynote speaker at the International Conference on Urban Regeneration.

Stepchange

June 2003. Paper given at the seminar held at Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum to discuss ‘The Dynamics of Art & New Urbanism.

Prayer

Not of Proof but of Love
Published in conjunction with the opening of the Prayer Room at Worcester Hospital 2002
ISBN 0-9542484-0-6

A Short Walk

Essay by John Newling published in ‘Public Art Forum’ April 2002

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Video of the Performance and Installation for Making History at Stafford Prison 2001

‘Place’

CD ROM with complete documentation of projects, essays and proposals from 1990 to 2000. Published 2000.
ISBN 1-84233-022-5

Distributed by Cornerhouse Publications and available to buy online at their site.

Immanent

Paper given at the V&A Millennium Conference ‘Materiality and Christianity’ 2000

‘Place’

Selected essays
Certainty and Uncertainty:
‘Place as Site’
A Sense of Place:
‘Grail’
‘Pathologies of Exclusion’
‘A Crowded Map’
Published by The Turnpike Gallery 1998
ISBN: 0-9529470 1 3

‘Weight’

Essay by Piers Nicholls on the Artranspennine Project ‘Weight’
Published by The Turnpike Gallery 1998
ISBN 0-952947-02-1

Distributed by Cornerhouse Publications and available to buy online at their site.

‘Place as Site’

Paper given at The Sculpture Factory, Cork 1994

‘Site and Position’

Paper given for Metalex, Newcastle 1994

‘Sacred and the Mundane’

Retrospective of the work of John Newling
Published by Cornerhouse Publications 1995
ISBN 1-897586-17-5

Distributed by Cornerhouse Publications and available to buy online at their site.

‘Skeleton’

‘Investigating a Site’
Published by Locus+ 1994
ISBN 1899377-02-6

Nottingham Projects

Catalogue to Exhibitions published by Angel Row Gallery

John Newling Sculpture

Retrospective
Published by Edward Totah 1987
ISBN 0-907773-12-5

‘State’ ‘Church’ and Other Works

Exhibition Catalogue
Published by The Midland Group, Nottingham 1984