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Rebecca Fontaine Wolf’s Maxine in the Morning
Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf’s work attracts attention; the artist was selected for the BBC television series ‘Show Me the Monet’, and is now set to grace the cover of Art of England magazine (out on May 31st). Here we take a closer look at her new painting Maxine in the Morning. Mournful or merely thoughtful? Lonely or [...]
New Blood Art Film: Bartosz Beda
This week we are proud to premiere a series of films on New Blood Art artists. The first film is about Bartosz Beda, whose gestural painting offers an emotional charge that is outside of words. You can view the film via the link below. The film is a collaboration between this month’s Guest Curator, filmmaker [...]
The House of New Blood Art
For children of a certain generation the illustrator Richard Scarry’s Busytown was a homely but nonetheless baptismal first encounter with a depiction of Being-in-the-World – a particular and supervening awareness of the worldhood of the world. I remember the reading* of his books being an eye-widening experience, verging on a kind of sensory overload, [...]
New work and news
It’s been a while since I last posted. I haven’t been idle though, just developing, thinking, layering, painting over, and turning pieces to face the wall… They get on my nerves when they aren’t working, and sometimes I think they’re finished, only to realise they aren’t after a couple of weeks. I put up nails [...]
Surrey Open Art Competition
Whilst little has been written much has been happening. I have been working hard at Ochre Print Studios where I am currently artist in residence. It has been a wonderful opportunity to have the time and access with the studio and it has been possible to work on a whole new series of prints. I [...]
Imagine the mystery of seeing a vast body of water for the first time…
Sometimes artworks create a sense of mystery usually granted only to first times… Re-posted from It’s Nice That: Matt Lee’s Presence of Absence photographic series features a “decontextualised black shape” looming ominously over a Bangalore apartment block. The title of the work suggests the shape is some kind of infinite void of time and space, poised on [...]
Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern
Don’t miss out on the exhibition, which ends on 5 June 2012. Kusama’s infinity nets use accumulation and repetition to create an immersive surface that directly reference the hallucinations she experienced from childhood. They are deeply intriguing surfaces to witness in reality, sublime and mundane, seeming to reference both hallucination for example and bearing a [...]
Great Resource for Arts Professionals
Highly recommend this resource for arts professionals, for helpful and insightful articles that you can actually apply in your every day practice. The answer to an often wondered about question will definitely be held somewhere in these pages.
The Internet Issue
If I make an artwork with images of my children and post it on the internet, do I face the same dangers as posting photos of them? Does that change when it is a drawing? “Hope for the Future” 7×7” 2012 A painting? Copyright Jenny Saville, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Mike Bruce ‘The Mothers,’ [...]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
Anna resting. Fleur Darkin and her dancers were developing ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ at Pavillion Dance in Bournemouth. A Residency was offered for artists to come alongside the dancers in their warming up and in their development of the piece. It offered a glimpse of the body tuned in a way I never have. Body awareness- [...]