I’ve been thinking about Pluto: myth, archetype, planet, god, the slow-moving force that strips away illusions and leaves only what stands. Whatever you think about astrology, Pluto as a planet is pretty extraordinary. Discovered only in 1930, it’s 3.7 billion miles away – and yet somehow we’ve got photographs (well, NASA do). When they sent the New […]

Tom Speedy graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone (DJCAD), University of Dundee this year (2025). He was nominated by his tutor for our Emerging Art Prize and awarded the prestigious RSA John Kinross Scholarship. He has already held two solo exhibitions and been selected for RSA New Contemporaries in Edinburgh (2026). His painting Adrift was chosen to promote […]

Last night Jan Valik’s solo show opened in Vienna: The Calling. Light breaking through mysterious paintscapes.

A dream opened like an initiation: a force moving through my hands, then a room answering with impossible demonstrations and tasks. I walked out of that logic, took a wrong turn, and found the right field – a place of makers, where creation itself shaped the way forward.
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Work that breathes with stillness and lives in light.

Congratulations Emerging Art Prize nominee, Sculpture and Environmental Glasgow School of Art graduate Anna Lewis, who has been awarded the 2025 Newbery Medal – the GSA’s highest undergraduate honour. Anna’s work delicately explores memory, materiality, and the ephemeral through sculpture, textiles, sound, and text. “Anna creates extraordinary objects that are beautifully and precisely crafted,” said […]

Ruth Bateman’s paintings are a rare encounter – Her mark-making resonates below language. You can almost feel the air shift: the shimmer of heat, the sound of crickets in the grass, stars flickering above a line of foliage. Scintillation, saturation, sensation. She has been shortlisted for both the 2024 Contemporary British Painting Prize and Sky […]

Three artworks to bring you home.

Some works carry presence – move in stillness, hold their own rhythm. Nicola Wiltshire’s Far and Beyond rests in this clarity. Her earlier paintings were layered over patterned fabric – Toile de Jouy, William Morris… in this work, the pattern has become the work, and it’s all hers. What was once background is now form. […]

Since his sold-out MA degree show in 2021, Andrew Szczech has continued to gain serious attention. Most recently, his work was selected by a London curator associated with Sarabande, the ICA, and Forbes 30 Under 30 – a sign of growing recognition within the contemporary art world. Andrew’s recent paintings draw on fragments of late-Victorian wallpaper from […]