Dispatches from the Field

A Story by Sarah Ryan – a psychic blueprint of the places, images, and choices that shaped New Blood Art before it had a name.

Dispatches from the Field
– writing from inside the gallery rebuild – where business, clarity, and voice meet. These are not newsletters. They’re real-time reflections: quietly sharp, often sideways, always authored.

Recent insights from the Art Basel & UBS report echo what I’ve seen for two decades: the most active and resilient part of the market lies where we’ve always worked – original artworks under £5,000, carefully selected.

The clue is in the name: Mr. Brainwash – so why do people keep buying in to the sell-out?
Banksy, (if he’s behind this) isn’t just selling art – he’s exposing how easily people accept what they are told has value, without learning to think for themselves..

“I remember how I fell in love with drawing; Life drawing had always felt to me like an intense race between my memory and the present, and this is why such classes proved stressful for me when I was in high school. I thought that drawing needed to be a perfect reflection of what was […]

Do you believe in magic?, Do you believe in luck?, Do you believe in ghosts? An ambivalent magic that embroiders every experience – just ask artist Mark Bletcher, who’s paintings fuse magic, mundanity, and unlikely muses. Bletcher’s work is a self-professed compendium of ‘Modern Magical Realism’, with influences ranging from writer Haruki Murakami to British painter Howard Hodgkin.  His work, […]

Most paintings require a leap of faith of some sort – trusting an object is real, believing in the life of a landscape, or extending empathy to a lone figure really before us. In the work of this week’s artist Emma-Louise Grady, the viewer is asked less for their faith, than their upmost attention and […]

Your average day probably involves looking at an electronic screen. From work emails and texting, to social media and news stories, the eyes are always on a relentless quest for knowledge, communication, and entertainment. ‘Screen fatigue’ is a guarantee – where did caution go? Where’s the person who used to yell “Don’t sit too close to the TV or you’ll ruin […]

What makes a story? It can be hard to tell, especially when stories so thoroughly make up the fabric of life. As writer Joan Didion famously wrote, “we tell ourselves stories in order to live”, so do we even want to separate life from story? For artist Stephen Todd, it’s a tricky predicament taken up […]

In light of the government’s retraining quiz, we’ve decided to start a series foregrounding those artists defiantly persisting with their creative ventures. ‘Still an Artist’ is a show of support for art-heads everywhere, giving you an insight into the lives of our artists, as we meet them where they’re at… Lately, the ecstatic work of […]