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 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 […]