---
title: Derek Newman-Stille
description: A multi-media artist exploring themes of body and identity through visual art and creative writing
url: "https://www.artsume.com/a/derek-newman-stille"
type: artist
createdAt: 2026-02-08
updatedAt: 2026-03-26
disciplines:
  - Painting
  - Mixed Media
  - Poetry
  - Creative Writing
  - Zine Making
location: "Peterborough, ENG, United Kingdom"
---

# Derek Newman-Stille

*A multi-media artist exploring themes of body and identity through visual art and creative writing | Painting, Mixed Media, Poetry, Creative Writing, Zine Making | Based in Peterborough, ENG, United Kingdom*

## Portfolio

### Teaching Doctors to Care About Disability (2025)

*Zine*

*5.5" x 8.5"*

This zine explores medical gaslighting and the way that doctors often ignore the knowledges of Disabled people by sharing essays, creative nonfiction, collage, and quotation.

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### Speak Up! Write Back to Power (2025)

*Zine*

*5.5" x 8.5"*

This zine explores the power of storytelling as a mode of resistance. The author shares essays, creative nonfiction, quotations, and collage to empower the reader to speak up and talk back.

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### Nonbinary Stars (2025)

*Zine*

*5.5" x 8.5"*

The author shares their story of finally discovering a name for their gender identity and being able to articulate their experience of discomfort with a simple gender binary. This is a perZine that weaves creative nonfiction with collage and poetry.

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### The Power of Hope (2025)

*Zine*

*5.5" x 8.5"*

In a world where it is sometimes hard to find hope, this zine examines possibilities for chasing hope without resorting to toxic positivity. This zine combines creative nonfiction, collage, quotation, poetry, and drawing

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### The Pain Drain (2025)

*Zine*

*5.5" x 8.5"*

A discussion of the author’s experience of chronic pain and the impact chronic pain has on the lives of those who experience it. This zine combines creative nonfiction and collage

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### Survivor Notes (2025)

*Zine*

*5.5" x 8.5"*

A perZine about the author’s survival of child abuse and an exploration of trauma and of care from the Disabled community. This work uses a combination of creative nonfiction, poetry, and collage.

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### Whimsy, Words, Watercolours (2025)

*Zine*

*6.5" x 8.5"*

A collection of watercolour paintings with poetry written over them.

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### Protest: Make Change (2025)

*Zine*

*8 1/2 X 5 1/2*

A zine about the power of protest as a transformational art

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### The R Word Room (2024)

*Zine*

*7" x 8.5"*

The R word is often levelled against Disabled people as an attack and insult — this perZine examines what it was like to be called that word throughout public and high school and the impact it had on their life. This Zine combines mixed media art, essays, creative nonfiction, poetry, and pen drawings.

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### Ontario Cryptids (2024)

*Zine*

*7" x 8.5"*

Here be monsters!! So often we only hear about American cryptids (monsters from folklore), but this zine explores the many stories of cryptids that have arisen in Ontario folklore. This zine combines research into the Ontario monstrous with interviews, paintings, pen drawings, acrylic paintings, and poetry to bring light to creatures like Igopogo, Kingstie, Old Yellow Top, and the Jack Pine Jackalope.