Geboren 1979 te Auckland, Nieuw Zeeland. Woont en werkt in Auckland.

Newby studeerde aan de Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland waar ze sindsdien lesgeeft. Een aantal solotentoonstellingen: I’ll follow you down the road, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland (2011); Crawl out your window, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; Burnt house. A little later, Gambia Castle, Auckland (bijde 2010); Get off my garden, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland; Blow wind blow, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne (bijde 2009); Thinking with your body, Gambia Castle, Auckland (2008); My Poetry, for example, Symonds Street, University of Auckland; On the Benefits of Building, Gambia Castle, Auckland; and A Windy Fire, Te Tuhi, Auckland (alle 2007). Een aantal groepstentoonstellingen: Prospect, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington (DATE); Out of a stone, Banner Repeater, Londen; Bas Jan Ader: Suspended between Laughter and Tears, Museo de Arte Zapopan (MAZ) in Guadalajara, Mexico (both 2011); Black Door Files, Black Door, Istanbul; Bas Jan Ader, Pitzer Art Galleries and Claremont Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The sky, a window and a tree, with Fiona Connor, CalArts, Los Angeles (bijde 2010); IN CASE IT RAINS, IT MIGHT INVOLVE WATER, ADSF, Rotterdam; The Future is Unwritten, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (bijde 2009); Show me don’t tell me, Brussels Biennial 1; Break: Towards a Public Realm, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Give us a sign, Courtney Place Light Boxes, with City Gallery, Wellington; Hold Still (with Nick Austin), One Day Sculpture, Auckland; The World (will soon turn our way) (with Fiona Connor and Marnie Slater) site-specific project, Mt Eden, Auckland (alle 2008); Moment Making: After the Situation, ARTSPACE, Auckland (2007); Remember New Zealand, 26th Sao Paulo Biennale, São Paulo (2004); Money for Nothing, Artspace, Auckland, & City Gallery, Wellington (2003).