Dispatches from the Field

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 Willett The moment when you are at a party (for example) and someone asks; “What do you do?” […]

HowTheLightGetsIn, is the world’s largest philosophy and music festival and is back in Hay-on-Wye, with thought-provoking debates and powerful talks. This years theme is  Fantasy and Reality and runs from 21st – 31st May. The Institute of Art and Ideas (who hold the festival) are a brilliant organisation – so enlivening to discover radical free […]

A fantastic show at Slade. Highlights included the irrepressible energy of Jeremy Hutchinson and Sangeun Joo. Joo created a space of devotion with rare memorabilia. Hutchinson got in touch with a number of factories around the world, and asked to order a product, with the special requirement that the product have an error that made […]

BIAD’s Margaret Street site is beautiful; the building has intriguing and impossibly imaginative original fittings wherever you look. The setting was used with maximum impact in the BIAD end of year degree show. Showing photographs, Syeda Bibi superimosed signifiers of British ideology over Bangladeshi landscapes in her quietly arresting composites. Natalie O’Keefe made something epic, […]