Announcing New Blood Art Masters
Announcing - New Blood Art Masters
New Blood Art has been profiling emerging artists for the past 10 years and we are delighted to announce the launch of our Masters section, where we will profile the most accomplished emerging artists who have graduated through our space.
Each of these artists have completed a Masters Degree, held a number of significant solo shows, won or been shortlisted for a notable Art Prize and are working full time as practicing artists, so their careers are well underway. Whilst this select group have already seen significant increases in the value of their artwork since graduation, they are still very much early in their career, with lots of potential for future growth and development.
These are the artists that a few years ago were very affordable - selling in some cases for as little as. Since then they have been awarded with prizes, held solo shows and developed their studio practices and are selling at much higher price points, although these artists are not as affordable as they once were, they arguably present a safer investment opportunity - with an established track record, enduring passion and drive.
We welcome to New Blood Art Masters the following artists:
Iain Andrews
Sophie Baker
Bartosz Beda
Keren Luchtenstein
Josie McCoy
Peter Monkman
David Wightman
Please also take a look at our newly discovered artists, with their potential to follow in the footsteps of our Masters artists - see all newly available original work here.
Iain Andrews - My paintings begin as a dialogue with an image from art history – a painting by an Old Master that may then be rearranged or used as a starting point from which to playfully but reverently deviate. My recent work is concerned with the struggle to capture the relationship between the spiritual and the sensual, apparent opposites that are expressed in my work through the conflict of high narrative themes and sensuous painterly marks.
Sophie Baker - There is a palpable tension and edginess in Sophie Baker’s landscapes. Her deserted frontiers, abandoned quarries and overgrown woodlands bear witness to man’s intrusive activity and impact on the landscape. Her compositions suggest a recent exchange or happening, perhaps uncanny – and an atmosphere of hurried departure, of business unfinished.
Bartosz Beda - Born in Poland in 1984, Bartosz Beda relocated to the UK in 2008. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2011 (where we first discovered him), he was selected for the 2012 Catlin Art Guide for the most promising emerging artists in the UK, and soon progressed onto the Masters program at Manchester Metropolitan University. Beda has been short-listed for the Title Art Prize, the Door Prize, and Saatchi New Sensations 2012, he won the esteemed Towry Award for the Best of North of England in 2012. Also in 2012 he was awarded a six-month scholarship between Manchester Metropolitan University and Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, Germany. Beda has participated in many shows.
Keren Luchtenstein - Luchtenstein makes illusionistic oil paintings portraying items which appear to occupy the viewer’s space. As a child Keren remembers the sensory experience of examining objects with a heightened obsessive focus. Through her paintings she aims to communicate the pleasure thus derived. This connection with childhood feelings informs the subject-matter - the yearning for beautiful shoes and ornaments, the emotional attachment to well-used utility items and to inherited objects. Much of Keren ‘s work relates to fashion and textiles - clothes and interiors being an abiding delight to her.
Josie McCoy - Josie McCoy graduated from the MA Fine Art course at Central St Martin's in 1999. Since then she has had solo shows in London, Valencia, Newcastle, Milan and Santiago de Compostela and has exhibited in numerous group shows. Her work has been selected for competitions including the International Painting Prize of Castellon and four times for the BP Portrait Award. In 2001, she was awarded first prize for the Centre of Attention Painting Prize and in 2002 she received a Woo Charitable Foundation Arts Bursary.
Peter Monkman - Monkman won 1st prize at the BP Portrait Award 2009 for his painting ‘Changeling 2’, which depicts his 12-year-old daughter on the cusp of adolescence. It was described as ‘compelling’ by the judges, and ‘incredibly bewitching and beguiling’ by journalist Charlotte Mullins. Monkman is currently Director of Art at Charterhouse having practiced as an artist and taught for over 20 years. He has recently exhibited at the Watts Gallery, the Threadneedle Prize at the Mall and the Jerwood Drawing Award as well as being a regular feature in the BP Portrait Awards.
David Wightman - born in Stockport, Greater Manchester in 1980. He studied Fine Art at Middlesex University and gained an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. While still at the Royal College of Art, he won ‘Young Artist of the Year’ at the Hunting Art Prizes. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003 as the youngest graduate at the age of 23. He lives and works in London. David Wightman's paintings reinvent abstraction and landscape through a personal and intimate approach. Each work is constructed from a combination of collaged wallpaper and acrylic paint using a technique similar to marquetry. His use of wallpaper alludes to a lost domestic space that the wallpaper was intended for.
