Saffron Newey is a Melbourne-based painter, who utilises digital media processes. In 2019 she received a PhD in Fine Art at RMIT University. Her research focused on the effect of the Internet upon painting, both as a contemporary medium and as an art-historical narrative. Saffron Newey has been exhibiting for 25 years and is included in various private and public collections in Australia and abroad. She has been a finalist in multiple Australian prizes for landscape and contemporary painting. A recent expansion to Saffron’s practice is mural painting. 2020 has seen her complete numerous public and private commissions.