Dispatches from the Field

‘LEI IN PALLORE CERCÒ L’ARIA SEGRETA’ (‘SHE IN PALENESS SOUGHT THE SECRET AIR’) BY FABIANO GAGLIANO ‘The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks, All but the youngest. She in paleness sought the secret air, To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day. Down by the river of Adona her soft […]

‘TEMPUS FUGIT 28’ BY ANNA MCNEIL ‘They slept on the abyss without a surge— The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir’d before; The winds were wither’d in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish’d; Darkness had no need Of aid from them—She was the Universe.’ LORD […]

‘AUTUMN BLOOMS’ BY JULIE-ANN SIMPSON ‘O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits […]

‘COME BACK SOON 2’ BY LIAM SYMES ‘Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.’ CAROL ANN DUFFY

‘LONDON VISTA’ BY NINA STALLWOOD ‘Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, […]

‘EVENING LAKE’ BY THOMAS CAMERON ‘Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still. But now they drift on the still water, Mysterious, beautiful; Among what rushes will they build, By what […]

“Based on nature’s forces and dynamism, my work is largely concerned with nature’s affinity with reclaiming what belongs to it. It focuses on the ‘slow burn’ that occurs in all living things and their surroundings.” – Sara Oskarsson See into the world of

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

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

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