James Matthew O’Connell is an exciting graduate artist. We came across his work at his BA show this year (2015) at Wimbledon College of Art. He’s made a remarkable emergence into the art world – being invited to show in a group show of just 14 artists (whose work addresses themes of repetition and variation) […]

‘MONSIEUR LE RENARD’ BY MICHAELA HOLLYFIELD ‘In the hole lived Mr. Fox and Mrs. Fox and their four small Foxes.’ ‘I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I’m the greatest. And if they aren’t completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don’t feel good about myself.’ ROAHL […]

Manchester School of Art, MA Show 2015 Is currently running – 1st – 9th October  

My process is mainly a diary of decisive moments I capture with my camera which sometimes ends up in a series of symbolic paintings that reflect socio-political connotations of current affairs and some others explores everyday scenes in general. The fact that I perceive myself as a flaneur (from French flâneur, from flâner “to stroll, […]

‘CLIMBERS SERIES NO.5’ BY EMILY HILLIER ‘The moun­tain seems no more a soul­less thing, But rather as a shape of ancient fear, In dark­ness and the winds of Chaos born Amid the lord­less heav­ens’ thun­der­ing– A Pres­ence crouched, enor­mous and aus­tere, Before whose feet the mighty waters mourn.’ GEORGE STERLING

The Rosebery at Mandarin Oriental Wins Design Award GA Design International won Best Design for Cafe Bar/All Day Dining in The European Hotel Design Awards and here’s part of the write up which mentions the artwork by Orlanda Broom: ‘The art is a combination of the beautifully sublime and joyfully vibrant… Pride of place goes […]

In his Reith lectures Grayson Perry called artists “Pilgrims on the Road to Meaning”. At New Blood Art we wanted to gain insight into our artists personal roads to meaning so we asked them 3 questions. – Stephen Todd The moment when you are at a party (for example) and someone asks: ‘What do you do?’ […]

“There is a palpable tension and edginess in Sophie Baker’s landscapes. Her deserted frontiers, abandoned quarries and overgrown woodlands bear witness to man’s intrusive activity and impact on the landscape.” All photographs below are by talented Photographer Retts Wood. Within her photographic series ‘A Room Of Ones Own’, Rett explains that she has been …“asking women […]

“The creative objective of my work is to make something beautiful out of dilapidation. My tableaus explore the dissonance between old and new materials, intertwined in the most beautiful way possible to create dreamlike and melancholy images.”    

My paintings are concerned with the intensity of consumer culture – breathing life into lifeless products, making them irresistible and essential to us. Aggressive consumerism is one of the most crucial aspects of modern visual culture, one to which we’ve become gradually accustomed, and therefore oblivious. My paintings are a response to this. Taking something […]