Dispatches from the Field

“As a maker of images and narratives, the stories and situations that populate and reside within my work are directly extended from memory and my own sense of self in relation to place. There lies a nostalgic undertone that is, at times, compromised by a sense of threat – a culmination of sentiment and reality. […]

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

Artist and curator Susan O’Malley, asked a hundred ordinary people between the ages of seven and eighty-eight what advice their 80-year-old selves would give to their present-day selves. Tragically she died suddenly at just 38, a week before her pregnancy due date. The project with its poignant words of wisdom is now published as: Advice […]

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 some questions. Here are some of their answers: Do you have any rituals or routines to help the creative process?
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