From Nicola Wiltshire’s Curated by Artists series, on today, the shortest day, we are delighted to bring you this interview with New Blood Artist Emma Phillips, a painter whose work explores ritual, folklore, and landscape.

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.