SPOTLIGHT




Posted May 6, 2011 by Newbloodart

The Investment Counsel: Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf Collecting Tip

Here at Newbloodart, we like to share collecting tips. As we often say – buying at the start of an artist’s career, when the work is on the cusp of gaining recognition and value, is the perfect time to buy an artist’s work – it will be never be more affordable. More difficult to get […]



Posted February 19, 2011 by Newbloodart

I could not tell

Thinking about why it is that Heymish’s photographs create a kind of proprietary urge, a question arises – how can they be nostalgic for so many people, when memories are supposed to be our own? Somewhere between dream and memory, the images create acute but inarticulate feelings, that seem to belong intimately, and impossibly to […]



Posted February 10, 2011 by Newbloodart

Thinking Things

Looking at Louisa Chambers’ work put me in mind of Bruno Munari and his useless machines, not to be confused with his comic machines seen in Einaudi’s Le Macchine di Munari, “projects for strange constructions for wagging the tails of lazy dogs, for predicting the dawn, for making sobs sound musical, and many other facetious […]



Posted July 13, 2010 by Newbloodart

Review of the Falmouth Degree Show

Falmouth, lovely by the sea, had a very different atmosphere – and the show was wonderfully rich, accomplished and engaging. We really enjoyed the inclusion of dissertation titles in the catalogue, and have reproduced some of them here – divorced from their bodies they are necessarily obscure but inviting, and sometimes make for surreal reading(s). […]



Posted July 8, 2010 by Newbloodart

RCA highlights

Beauty in simplicity of form is found in the white wooden structures of Edward Payne. Translating the shape of a paper bag into solid wooden form – he plays with this iconic design, highlighting it’s familiarity, questioning it’s function, celebrating its simplicity and challenging the way we receive visual information. Benjamin Senior has a visual […]



Posted June 14, 2010 by Newbloodart

P R O C E S S

A while ago we wrote to all our artists inviting fragments –  preliminary, spontaneous and less controlled pieces, which the artists may have considered too unfinished to release. We have really enjoyed gaining an insight into our artists’ practice through this means, and have received great feedback from customers who have taken this opportunity to […]