Artists & Studios
Greenery
Greenery Pantone have named ’Greenery’ as colour of the year for 2017. Greenery is a ”fresh and zesty yellow-green shade” a shade that many of us would think of as apple green. We think all shades of green will have their moment this year and that you’ll be seeing green in all its guises enhancing interior spaces. Original art is […]
Pilgrims on the Road to Meaning: Rob Lyon
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?’ […]
Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self – Listen to Your Heart
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 […]
Pilgrims on the Road to Meaning: Rituals and Routines
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? ALICE […]
#020 Literary Echoes
‘ROOM OF DEMENTIA- BROKEN PIECES, PAGE: 2 SECONDS TO REMEMBER’ BY EWELINA LABUDA ‘If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.’ ERNEST HEMINGWAY
#019 Literary Echoes
‘EMILY FALLING IN THE LIBRARY’ BY VIKRAM KUSHWAH ‘Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming […]
#018 Literary Echoes
‘DANDELION’ BY RUDI KEATS ‘Simple and fresh and fair from winter’s close emerging, As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been, Forth from its sunny nook of shelter’d grass—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn, The spring’s first dandelion shows its trustful face.’ WALT WHITMAN
Pilgrims on the Road to Meaning: Michaela Hollyfield
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: – Michaela Hollyfield The moment when you are at a party (for example) and someone asks: ‘What do you do?’ […]
#017 Literary Echoes
‘EMPRESS’ BY JACKY HUTSON ‘To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.’ SHAN SA
#016 Literary Echoes
‘NOT READY’ BY MICHAEL HOWARD ‘Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be: Take her head upon your knee. She that was so proud and wild, Flippant, arrogant and free, She that had no need of me, Is a little lonely child Lost in Hell,—Persephone, Take her head upon your knee: Say […]