Dispatches from the Field

‘NOT READY’ BY MICHAEL HOWARD ‘Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be: Take her head upon your knee. She that was so proud and wild, Flippant, arrogant and free, She that had no need of me, Is a little lonely child Lost in Hell,—Persephone, Take her head upon your knee: Say […]

‘MONSIEUR LE RENARD’ BY MICHAELA HOLLYFIELD ‘In the hole lived Mr. Fox and Mrs. Fox and their four small Foxes.’ ‘I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I’m the greatest. And if they aren’t completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don’t feel good about myself.’ ROAHL […]

‘CLIMBERS SERIES NO.5’ BY EMILY HILLIER ‘The moun­tain seems no more a soul­less thing, But rather as a shape of ancient fear, In dark­ness and the winds of Chaos born Amid the lord­less heav­ens’ thun­der­ing– A Pres­ence crouched, enor­mous and aus­tere, Before whose feet the mighty waters mourn.’ GEORGE STERLING

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. – Stephen Todd The moment when you are at a party (for example) and someone asks: ‘What do you do?’ […]