I am a big fan of Katherine Jones and was singing her praises just last week in our newsletter. So I was delighted to hear this week that she has been shortlisted as one of only 4 artists for The Art’s Foundation Fellowship Award 2013. Excitingly, she has also been awarded this years Printfest ‘Printmaker […]

She failed all her art-school exams, joined a band and didn’t get going until she was in her 40s. Now Elizabeth Price has won the Turner prize. She talks to Charlotte Higgins about the long game

The newsletter below was sent out to newsletter subscribers on February 1st 2012. Bartosz was selected for the 2012 Catlin Art Guide for most promising emerging artists in the UK, was short-listed for the Title Art Prize, the Door Prize, and Saatchi New Sensations 2012, Beda won esteemed Torwy Award for the Best of the […]

Derby was a mixed bag. In Photography I liked the deadpan documentation of Samuel Deffley, whose series ’91 Campion Street’ depicted objects with a painterly touch against a tan background, reminiscent of American tromp l’oeil paintings, Wes Anderson’s way with objects and the dangerously bland backgrounds of Francis Bacon. Similarly deadpan, and with an in-built […]