By placing mentors and tutors at the heart of the curation process, New Blood Art is disrupting traditional insular models and elevating underrepresented artistic voices. New Blood partnered with StART art fair over Frieze week, 11 – 15th October 2023 to present the inaugural New... […]
Cambridge, 1997 - 1998 After India, I didn’t want to go back - I wanted to go forward. Somewhere new. To cross into a new space. Cambridge offered that - a place at Homerton College - a postgraduate year in art education. On my first... […]
Botswana 1998 - 2000 The British Council were advertising teaching posts in Botswana. Naturally I applied. The training had been, in a way, a passport for travel - a way back to Africa. I was offered Head of Art at a government CJSS. Two-year contract.... […]
London 2000 Fast forward two years and I’m back from Botswana, staying with my parents in London and supply teaching - in that quiet space between what was and what’s next. One afternoon my dad took me to PC World and under the store’s bright... […]
London 2001 - 2002 I found a job teaching art at a boys’ public school in Ealing. A Catholic school and a weirdly relevant yet emotionally irrelevant landmark that vicariously punctuated my life. My brother had gone there briefly. The boy with the hamster had... […]
London 2002 - 2004 Around that time, I met a man I had crossed paths with before - small overlaps, never a real meeting until then. He worked in the city, was a few years older than me, and had gone to that same boys’... […]
London 2004 - 2007 It’s interesting – there are periods of my life that I look back on and feel alive in the remembering of – having been aligned in body and mind. It’s easy to recall those moments from an emotional and kind of... […]
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This one is a different story. It’s personal, real-time, and grounded in the present.. About holding the gallery carefully as we transform, making the shifts needed to sustain integrity as a living gallery. […]
The only national award shaped by Fine Art tutor nominations - offering a rare collective view of what’s emerging in UK contemporary practice right now. The New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize brings together standout 2025 Fine Art graduates from across the UK, each artist... […]
London, 1994 That glimpse ahead was real. But I was still nineteen - just back from Tanzania, not yet at university - when I came back to London and fell in love with a magnetic boy (who looked like he belonged somewhere else entirely), We’d... […]
The only national award shaped by direct tutor nominations - offering a rare, insider view of what’s emerging in UK contemporary art right now. The New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize brings together standout 2025 Fine Art graduates from across the UK, each artist nominated... […]
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... […]
Visiting Dreamfield: land whales the size of a hypermarché, double rainbows, and images that shimmer then slip away in liminal space. A meditation on imagination, transformation, and creative practice. […]
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... […]
Unlock your creativity with art from art in 2026. Discover step by step guides, legal tips, and digital tools to inspire original work and artistic growth. […]
Unlock the world of art lingo with this 2026 guide. Learn essential terms, digital jargon, and expert tips to communicate clearly in the evolving art scene. […]
The Cost of Integrity Press Release May 2026 Primary Contact: Sarah Ryan (Founder & Curator) Direct Press Reach: sarah@newbloodart.com General Press Enquiries: press@newbloodart.com About New Blood Art Founded in 2004 by Sarah Ryan, New Blood Art is a pioneering independent online gallery dedicated to creating... […]
The majority of Tyler Watson's stored paintings have recently been consigned with Sir Paul Smith. A legendary fashion designer, Sir Paul Smith is of course also a well known contemporary art collector and patron of the arts. We have a number of pieces by Tyler Watson still available - with... […]
The School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies is one of the largest and most exciting centres in the UK for aspiring cultural practitioners — artists, theorists, curators, historians of art — to hone their creative and critical skills and broaden their... […]
This inspiring degree course immerses you in a diverse community of creatives. You are encouraged to explore your individual interests, challenge and cultivate your talent, and learn about the business of becoming an exceptional artist in the contemporary world. This engaging, broad-based fine art course... […]
‘Aphrodite’s Rage’ at the Royal Scottish Academy’s 197th annual exhibition Absolutely over the moon with being awarded the ‘Scottish Artists Benevolent Association Award’. The Exhibit is on until the 11th of June … […]
‘The Nature of Things’ currently on display @morgansfalmouth as part of Exhibition No.2. This paintings on panel has been built up slowly in layers using a mixture of oil, Coldwax & natural pigments & results in a painting inspired by the Cornish landscape, infused with... […]
Congratulations to Sean Davidson, Joana Simas and Agelos Kotzias nominated for the prize this year! […]
When an artist is moving studio, their work has evolved stylistically or they need to facilitate sales in order to continue making work - it can be that work (usually older) becomes available for sale at a lower price point. With this in mind we’ve created... […]
"In some of my work I use resin, which has a glasslike finish and echoes the sappy excretions that the plants might exude. There's a dichotomy between wanting to explore such a place and the inevitable entrapment should you find yourself there." - Orlanda Broom... […]
This is the first in a series of posts I will be writing for emerging artists covering a range of topics on the subject of how to sell your art online. This first post will start with the basics of choosing an online platform, following... […]
Toni Cogdell has exhibited in 3 group exhibitions already this year, including McAllister Thomas & Sarah Wiseman Gallery and she has just been longlisted for Anthology 2017. Małgorzata Lapsa-Malawska was recently selected for the Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, The Society of Woman Artists... […]
Who prices the art? And how do they do it? These are questions I’m asked frequently, by both artists starting out and the customers who buy their work. We generally start working with artists right at the start of their careers - usually finding them... […]
The palette of timeless interiors is often soft and neutral - referencing natural materials: wood, linen, parchment, stone, slate, charcoal, lime washes etc. With this in mind here's a curated collection inspired by the natural, neutral, soft and muted... Oh Mountains, Mountains by Jan Valik,... […]
Alexa Chung is a fan.. […]
A few years ago Sophie Ashby, of Studio Ashby spoke to Vogue with her husband, menswear designer Charlie Casely-Hayford, about art collecting in the context of home decorating. They referenced NewBloodArt as a go-to place to begin or build on an art collection that you... […]
We’ve been working towards this moment for a while: it’s brilliant to finally be able to share with you our plans for the gallery’s next phase. We warmly invite you to join us in making possible new connections between artists and collectors through curating contemporary... […]
The celebratory curation in this email features New Blood Art Masters, a cohort of artists who’ve been substantially awarded and recognised for their work: making distinct, dedicated contributions to contemporary art. Another one of our intentions moving forward is to support more emerging artists through... […]
Tutor-nominated. Artist-led. A national signal of what’s emerging in Fine Art now. Read more → […]
The genre of magic realism emerged in the 1920s, with artists depicting realistic scenes infused with an aura of the metaphysical or strange, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. The term was coined by German art critic Franz Roh in 1925. Renowned painter Peter... […]
There are numerous wonderful and groundbreaking artists on New Blood Art, making it a challenge to single out just a few. However, we are excited to bring to your attention ten artists who havedemonstrated significant achievements and recognition in the emerging contemporary art world. Each... […]
This index of desire is in homage to Roland Barthes' fantastic book of fragments A Lover's Discourse and in celebration of our very own INDEX OF DESIRES - where you can search for original artwork according to your own ephemeral but significant desires. In the... […]
The monthly round-up of events going on in our artists' lives: Scott Robertson is exhibiting at the East Sussex Open 2015 at Towner Gallery until 20th September. […]
"Painting for me is a very personal outlet for an unspoken language, one that can translate my emotions to a tangible substance. I am inspired by the way Impressionists capture vitality and how Netherlandic flower painting creates contrasts between what is dark; dead, and bright;... […]
A Story by Sarah Ryan - a psychic blueprint of the places, images, and choices that shaped New Blood Art before it had a name. […]
Films about our artists — inside their practice, their process, and their thinking. […]
Errol Theunissen’s work has steadily moved from personal necessity into public recognition. A self-taught painter and illustrator, born in Zimbabwe and now based in Middlesbrough, painting became central to his life after a motor vehicle accident left him with severe injuries and the loss of... […]
Emerging talent on the line Read the full article online via The Financial Times The idea for New Blood Art, an online gallery for emerging artists, seeded itself in Sarah Ryan’s mind while she was at art school in the early 1990s. She knew there... […]
On why the commercial and public-interest work must now be separated […]
The New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize 2026 is now underway, in collaboration with Fine Art departments across the UK. The Prize exists because great artists disappear all the time. Talent alone does not determine whether an artist survives. Some have enough structure around them... […]
Third Spotlight. Royal Academy shortlist. A trajectory worth noting. […]
The Jackson’s Art Prize, an international painting competition that receives thousands of submissions from artists around the world. […]
Beauty placed into the world. […]
For years now, Ed Saye has been painting something that felt like prophecy. And suddenly, we’re standing in it. […]