Curated Collections

Sophie Ashby, of Studio Ashby referenced NewBloodArt as a go-to place to begin or build on an art collection that you love, as well as where to source show stopping larger pieces at affordable prices. 

The innovative technique Sarah MacFarlane has developed to create her work is immediately striking. The ruched surface of her landscapes comes about through using layers of dried paint to build up dimensions, collage-like.

Brilliant graduates continue to arrive at the gallery, and it’s a joy to curate them.

This week’s emerging artists show fantastic sensitivity to the possibilities of their medium – applied in very different directions..

For this week’s Director’s Picks, Sarah reflects on how environment can imbue you taste. In this case, it’s sun, sea, and a different tempo that have caught her eye.    This week’s artwork selection has been informed by my recent week away in the sunshine on the beach: experiencing a certain saturation of colour and […]

2022 Manchester Metropolitan University graduate Rhianna Mone makes hybrid wall hangings. In her process the artist uses chance to foreground the interrelations of shapes and colours. As artist Elsworth Kelly said of using chance to make his collages of colourful squares: “I want to eliminate the ‘I made this’ from my work.” The title of many […]

Here are the latest emerging artists to join this summer. We’re so excited at the diverse range of talent that continues to be evident at the degree shows this year; here is a brief introduction to the newest additions curated by the gallery.  Kaiya Khatri is a graduate of Loughborough University. Flowers are her subject, following the Puja (‘the […]

We’re delighted to introduce Emily Oades to the gallery, a young artist just graduated from Leeds Arts University. The oil paintings she’s producing are ambitious, head-turning works that recall the seminal contemporary British painter Cecily Brown – who once described painting as a transformative “kind of alchemy.”  We hope you enjoy browsing Emily’s work here.  Our take:  In these […]

The two newest artists showing at the gallery are Sammi Mak and Tian Rossana Wong.  In very different ways these emerging artists dramatise the meeting of paint with paper, the myriad possibilities of brushwork, line and tone. Different types of paper – whether rice paper from the ancient Chinese tradition, or Somerset soft velvet paper made of […]

The future resides in the colours deployed by the artists curated here. Colours like an upbeat song, bringing you into a more vibrant moment.  See the earthly paradises of Ed Saye (see our profile on ‘Happy Hippy Home’), the lucid drip and drift of paint in Francesca Bleay’s paintings, Audrey Corbelli’s primal abstractions, and Tatiana Leony’s phantasmagoric, flame-lit scenes.  These artists are very different from […]

We’ve spoken to artists about their journey of discovery with framing; a topic they unsurprisingly gave some great insight on. It’s also worth bearing in mind that framing a work increases its value. Using a framer you can trust is important, and we can give you recommendations..