BLAST, BRITISH ART FAIR’S NEW MAGAZINE EDITED BY COLIN GLEADELL
British Art Fair is pleased to announce the launch of BLAST, the first art market magazine to focus entirely on Modern and Contemporary British art. An independent and critical production edited by Colin Gleadell, its launch is sponsored by Ramsay Fairs, new owners of the British Art Fair which runs from 29 September to 2 October 2022 at Saatchi Gallery.
Colin Gleadell
Photo by Charlie Best
The title, which is borrowed from Percy Wyndham Lewis’s revolutionary 1912 publication, suggests both the vitality of Modern British art over more than century and the impact which insightful news announcements, critique and analysis can have in this sometimes neglected area of the art market.
The first issue includes an exclusive preview of the St Ives Buddhism show within the context of Chinese interest in collecting Modern British art, a feature on the new YBA's, an exclusive on Christie’s new Black British star Winston Branch and a deep dive into the Sir Nicholas Goodison auction of Modern British art.
Publication will initially be bi-monthly and online only and available as a newsletter and online. View it here: BLAST Magazine
Colin Gleadell is the art market columnist for The Daily Telegraph and a regular contributor to Artnet News, Art Monthly, and Artsy. Prior to The Telegraph, he worked for the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art as a researcher, the Crane Kalman Gallery as a gallery manager, and Bonhams auctioneers as Head of Modern Pictures. He worked for ten years (1986 – 1997) as the features editor of Galleries Magazine, whilst also contributing to leading art market publications such as Art & Auction and Art News where he was the London correspondent of the Artnewsletter. He Introduced Sister Wendy Beckett to the BBC for whom he worked as a consultant on market programmes such as the Relative Values series (1991). He also worked as an art market consultant for Channel 4 News.
Gleadell was on the original advisory committee for the 20th Century British Art Fair in 1988, where he has served ever since as it changed its name to the 20/21 British Art Fair, and now the British Art Fair.