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 [...]

Held at the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane the show sprawled out across 5 large spaces – the work was not densely arranged and each artist got their generous quota of space. The Illustrators displayed their works in a concertina, (snaking down a large space that also contained Photography) which acted as large scale portfolios, [...]

It was clear that students at Oxford Brookes had been encouraged to think on their own terms, taken heed of this and moved swiftly onwards.  The show was characterized by the adventurous and individualistic. Often one finds, as is natural in any community, that certain influences become predominant, and at Brookes it was clearly influence [...]

Here at Newbloodart, we like to share collecting tips. As we often say – buying at the start of an artist’s career, when the work is on the cusp of gaining recognition and value, is the perfect time to buy an artist’s work – it will be never be more affordable. More difficult to get [...]

Thinking about why it is that Heymish’s photographs create a kind of proprietary urge, a question arises – how can they be nostalgic for so many people, when memories are supposed to be our own? Somewhere between dream and memory, the images create acute but inarticulate feelings, that seem to belong intimately, and impossibly to [...]