Dispatches from the Field

‘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?” […]

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, […]