[4] She wrote the novella Common, based on her experiences as 'Self-appointed Artist in Residence' in the City of London, about the economic crisis from within, as it was happening on the streets of the square mile.
[5] The book documents the crash in the global markets, turbulence in the Eurozone and the riots that started in London but spread to the rest of Britain.
In 1995 she studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg with a DAAD scholarship in the class of Marina Abramović.
The premise was to drive a bus of volunteer passengers around the Milton Keynes grid system until it ran out of petrol.
[8] Milton Keynes was built on the American grid system which Newman states gave the "trip a sense of boredom, containment and involves going nowhere".