Leeroy New was born in 1986 in General Santos City. New is an artist-designer whose practice overlaps and intersects with film, theatre, product design, and fashion. Originally trained as a sculptor, he tried everything from production design for film, to working with fashion designers, to creating 3D mock ups for commercial purposes. He was able to integrate this inclination to move from one mode of creative production to another as the spine of his creative practice.

As a response to the issue of art and art practitioners’ (in)visibility in the Philippines, New decided early on that cultivating a language for large scale public art was the challenge he had to take on. Through his persistence, despite the initially limited support and resources, what resulted were immersive installations that use a variety of found objects directly sourced from the immediate material culture of his current environment. 

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BANG-ON is a collective of arts professionals and interdisciplinary artists, working across diverse contexts of arts and cultural production. Steeped within Indigenous ways of being, philosophy of generosity and practice centred approach, we support projects that centre the experiences and care of artists, creative communities, audiences and participants. We work in a generative manner, creating space for reciprocal cross-sector and community collaborations, and propose new ways of looking at the world through community and artist led projects.

BANG-ON supports the development and delivery of artist projects that do not follow conventional modes of presentation, particularly works that are activated by rigorous cultural protocols and ceremony and grounded in experimentation and interdisciplinary collaborations. We build projects around cultural specificity, implementing processes that best serve the artist and their community.