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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, [...]
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.
Gerhard Richter Painting – via Nowness
“A New Film Captures the German Impasto Master at Work with His Squeegee. The notoriously secretive creative process of reclusive German artist Gerhard Richter is exposed in filmmaker Corinna Belz’s new fly-on-the-wall documentary, Gerhard Richter Painting. Belz spent three years as an observer in Richter’s Cologne studio capturing mesmerizing footage of the artist producing his radical [...]
Very interesting and beautiful talk on creativity by Elizabeth Gilbert.
A very interesting talk by Elizabeth Gilbert about the challenges of creativity and the notion of creative ‘genius’. Does artistry automatically need to lead to anguish? See it here
Amazing Mini Masterpieces for £60
Reminiscent of Peter Doig – who in June sold his work ‘Red Boat’ at auction for 6.2 million pounds, our newly discovered, recent graduate John Hainsworth creates mysteriously charged and compelling small scale paintings at an incredible price point. These works are just £60 each, beautifully presented – painted on aluminium and mounted on MDF. [...]
New Discoveries
As you may know, we spent the month of June visiting as many degree shows as was humanly possible. And it’s been worth it, because we have found some truly fantastic young artists. Take a moment to look at the work of Bartosz Beda, an astounding painter – the opportunity to own art of this [...]