Latest Entries by New Blood Art
New Artist: Emma Callaghan
“I make short films, sculptures and paintings. A lot of my practice involves a multi-disciplinary approach including film, painting, poetry writing and photography. The work I create draws upon memory, time, history, journey and life. I take from everyday life, drawing upon it as a universal influence to reassert this action of both the individual […]
New Artist: Scott Robertson
“Someone recently told me that my work always made him feel like he had to finish it off, and that it never even had the decency to ask. I can live with that.” – Scott Robertson.
Artists & Studios: Laura Menzies
“My paintings, drawings and prints operate as a personal register of marks that are formed from constructs of memory, emotion and indirect references to place. They suggest a world that we all encounter visually or sensationally, and are imbued with a strong sense of time, depth and ambiguity.” – Laura Menzies
Artists & Studios: Sara Oskarsson
“Based on nature’s forces and dynamism, my work is largely concerned with nature’s affinity with reclaiming what belongs to it. It focuses on the ‘slow burn’ that occurs in all living things and their surroundings.” – Sara Oskarsson See into the world of
Artwork in-situ: Coral Churchill
“I work with bright luminescent colour, painting forms that cross between recognisable and reminiscent. With empty void backgrounds I reference deep sea and space photography, while free form improvised structures create the basis of many paintings contrasting with portraits inspired by nineteenth-century daguerreotypes and autochromes.” Coral Churchill
Artwork in-situ: Myka Baum
“I work predominantly in photography and investigate its ephemeral nature in relation to the urban environment. At the heart of my practice lies a fascination with cycles of transformation and an attempt to encapsulate natural phenomena through abstract processes. Light plays an integral role within my work and there is an ambiguity between the precision […]
Artwork in-situ: Mary Watson
“My work explores the competitive nature of human beings. I am particularly interested in how we invent activities to express our obsessions and how we use objects to embody or to encapsulate our competiveness. The ‘Prize’ represents the driving force behind our behaviour; it is the end goal and represents success. On a deeper level […]
Pilgrims on the Road to Meaning: Joanne Hummel
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. Joanne Hummel-Newell The moment when you are at a party (for example) and someone asks; “What do you do?” […]
Pilgrims on the Road to Meaning: Alice Dyba
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: Alice Dyba The moment when you are at a party (for example) and someone asks; “What do you do?” […]
Pilgrims on the Road to Meaning: Sara Oskarsson
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: – Sara Oskarsson The moment when you are at a party (for example) and someone asks; “What do you do?” […]