SPOTLIGHT

Congratulations Emerging Art Prize nominee, Sculpture and Environmental Glasgow School of Art graduate Anna Lewis, who has been awarded the 2025 Newbery Medal – the GSA’s highest undergraduate honour. Anna’s work delicately explores memory, materiality, and the ephemeral through sculpture, textiles, sound, and text. “Anna creates extraordinary objects that are beautifully and precisely crafted,” said […]

Ruth Bateman’s paintings are a rare encounter – Her mark-making resonates below language. You can almost feel the air shift: the shimmer of heat, the sound of crickets in the grass, stars flickering above a line of foliage. Scintillation, saturation, sensation. She has been shortlisted for both the 2024 Contemporary British Painting Prize and Sky […]

Since his sold-out MA degree show in 2021, Andrew Szczech has continued to gain serious attention. Most recently, his work was selected by a London curator associated with Sarabande, the ICA, and Forbes 30 Under 30 – a sign of growing recognition within the contemporary art world. Andrew’s recent paintings draw on fragments of late-Victorian wallpaper from […]

Two artists, one undercurrent: the early pulse of recognition. Shared origin (RCA), different registers, but the same sense of forward motion. There are rumblings – sales, attention, the kind of interest that builds quietly. Their work is being noticed. Picked up, in some cases, by other artists – and that always says something – that […]