Creative types have their strengths, but not usually in financial planning. Julia Kollewe reports on a scheme that paints a brighter future for them

This is such a treat…. We are so excited to have discovered Olga Noes! Watch her creating Contemplation by clicking on the link: Contemplation

Last week we visited The Berlin University of the Arts for ‘Rundgang’ their biggest event during the year. Rundgang, literally means ‘open door days’ where all the studios were open and the students work on display. What a treat to make this visit and to see the depth and clarity with which these artists work. It […]

Attending degree shows allows you to have a privileged view onto the shapings and traces of influence, that amorphous, decisive and perishable force. This viewpoint is a rarity, a phenomenon that occurs only for a short time, before an artist’s voice and work is crystallised and made coherent, and influences become, invariably, references. You can […]

Daisy Clarke’s 2009 painting The Snowy Path depicts a figure in a snowy landscape on a crisp and lucid winter’s day, a figure whom we have simply come across, who is exactly, now, at the distance when we cannot tell if she regards us too, or if, her thoughts elsewhere, she has not yet recoginized that […]

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 […]

  John Akehurst’s original collages always remind me of that scene in Mad Men when Don Draper pitches ‘The Carousel’ to Kodak. Like much of the show it’s worth re-watching, and this transcription won’t do Jon Hamm’s performance justice. “Technology is a glittering lure, but there is the rare occasion when the public can be […]

Emma Tann’s piece In My Craft or Sullen Art is beautifully invested in the source from which the title was derived. It is a piece of art – something to be viewed and studied – but it also as forlorn and unattended as a spider web. That the artist uses the doily as reference, and sometimes material, […]

  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, […]

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 […]