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Bret Easton Ellis once said his advice to young artists was simple: marry someone rich. The line lands because, well, it’s true. Making art depends less on talent than on time, and having time often relies on having money. The structure for artists who don’t already have support is thin.

Artists turn dead edges into cultural edges, raising identity, safety and prices – and then get priced out, taking the real cultural value with them.

A brief slip back into the seventies – Charlie’s Angels in perfect jeans, bullets ricocheting, hair still immaculate, then Kojak with his lollipop. A small signal forming the shape of a 1970s-charged collection.

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.

Had a coffee on the beach this morning. Watched two people out on the water, holding small untethered sails.

At first it looked like they’d brought the wrong equipment. Like someone stepping into the sea with an umbrella..

And then the magic. Got me thinking about artists.

Ed Saye’s new solo exhibition, Once Emerged from the Grey of Night, presents a reimagined, autobiographical painting cycle – surreal, luminous scenes rendered in saturated colour and a sense of altered ritual.

We’ve shown Orlanda Broom’s work since just after her graduation and witnessed her develop a vivid, unmistakable language of imagined ecosystems and transformation. Orlanda Broom in her studio, several years ago – a glimpse into the origins of a practice we’ve followed since its earliest days. Her vision has deepened steadily, and she remains one […]