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 […]

Artworks keep arriving in quiet alignment – unconnected in origin, yet clearly in conversation. This post introduces Synchronistic Curation: a space to hold artistic entanglement and what returns together.

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Colin Gleadell 24 March 2020 9:58am GMT As someone who learned their art on the streets, through handling it physically in galleries and auction rooms, I have always had a slight aversion to the impersonal way it is marketed online. But over time, I have found that, as the technology for experiencing the art virtually, […]

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View article here Katie Hallam, 38, visual artist, Edinburgh College of Art Before lockdown I wanted to visualise what our technological devices would become in 100 million years’ time, fossilised, buried and extracted again. I had sourced large pieces of coal from the last remaining active quarry in Ayrshire and had planned to cast, sculpt, […]

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What happens when trust breaks down in an unregulated market, and why smaller dealers may hold the key.