“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 [...]

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    

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. [...]

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 [...]

A rich and engaging show at Buckinghamshire Chilterns show. Highlights included the sculptures of Nick Harvey, whose work seemed to show how fragility, prickliness, and aggressive defence can go together in a poignant way. Jeanette Twybill’s spliced and re-arranged stills from classic films like ‘Gilda’ proved as tantalisingly evasive and finally ungraspable as the best [...]

Video work, installation and performance dominated the Reading Show. Highlights included the joint presentation put on by a number of artists in the main studio, including Kara Dennis’ vast and amorphous structures. Caroline Weaver showed a mixed media installation, playing audio of political leaders from Thatcher to Clegg emerging from the replicated facade of 10 [...]

A fantastic show at Slade. Highlights included the irrepressible energy of Jeremy Hutchinson and Sangeun Joo. Joo created a space of devotion with rare memorabilia. Hutchinson got in touch with a number of factories around the world, and asked to order a product, with the special requirement that the product have an error that made [...]

BIAD’s Margaret Street site is beautiful; the building has intriguing and impossibly imaginative original fittings wherever you look. The setting was used with maximum impact in the BIAD end of year degree show. Showing photographs, Syeda Bibi superimosed signifiers of British ideology over Bangladeshi landscapes in her quietly arresting composites. Natalie O’Keefe made something epic, [...]

Photography at UCLAN overlapped happily with social commentary in the work of Helen Stephens, who created portraits of young women aged 21-25 entitled ‘Adult Life’, and Mark Prescott who made touching composites of young teenagers on the thresholds of their homes and the places they like to hang out, all shot between 5 and 6pm [...]

Brighton was an enlivening and uplifting, well-curated show, characterised by really strong, engaging painting, which had a raw quality and a naivete. Anita Kavaja created tender paintings often set in domestic spaces depicting human relationships. Elisha Enfield used a really exciting painterly touch – washes, stains, disturbances of paint and curious lighting – to form [...]