Brian Newman is a photographer and filmmaker. He studied at University of Ulster, graduating with a BA (Hons.) Visual Communication and was awarded an MFA in Photography in 2016. His work has been widely exhibited in Ireland as part of Gallery of Photography Ireland’s Reframing the Border 5-year programme supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund and the department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, organised in partnership with the Nerve Centre and the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny. An artist’s monograph Association, supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Gallery of Photography Ireland will be published in 2022.

Newman’s series Unsettled Border focuses on the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, an institution that exists within the divide of Irish and British identities. The work reflects on the remoteness and isolation of border Lodges, where diminishing numbers of Orange Order members secure the fraternity’s ageing meeting places. Newman’s work presents a portrait of the Orange Order that seeks to go beyond stereotypical representations to reveal a more nuanced, considered perspective.