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A brief slip back into the seventies – Charlie’s Angels in perfect jeans, bullets ricocheting, hair still immaculate, then Kojak with his lollipop. A small signal forming the shape of a 1970s-charged collection.

Ed Saye’s new solo exhibition, Once Emerged from the Grey of Night, presents a reimagined, autobiographical painting cycle – surreal, luminous scenes rendered in saturated colour and a sense of altered ritual.

I’ve been thinking about Pluto: myth, archetype, planet, god, the slow-moving force that strips away illusions and leaves only what stands. Whatever you think about astrology, Pluto as a planet is pretty extraordinary. Discovered only in 1930, it’s 3.7 billion miles away – and yet somehow we’ve got photographs (well, NASA do). When they sent the New […]

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What happens when trust breaks down in an unregulated market, and why smaller dealers may hold the key.

Curated by Artists
An artist-led series, created and edited by Masters Artist Nicola Wiltshire that shines a fresh light on the New Blood Art collection. →

Every so often, I go rooting through the old spreadsheets. Quiet archaeology. To see who bought what, when, and whether it’s time to reconnect. I like keeping a feel for it – for the rhythm of a collector’s eye over time. What they were drawn to, what they paired and grouped together, what they circled […]

This time of year has always marked the start of something at New Blood Art. It’s when I begin planning the degree show tour – train routes, flights, car journeys. Sometimes 40, even 50 shows in just a few weeks. It’s intense, and a little bit mad, but it matters. Because that effort – that […]

Curating art is a curious process.. that feels like a dialogue between the artworks and the space in which they live. When I look through works – whether on the website or in the flesh – I often encounter pairings and groups that naturally complement each other, seeming to have an unspoken understanding between them, a shared energy, working […]