Jake Grewal s work will be included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Goblin jibber jabber (2019) courtesy the artist
More than ever, I crave new art in the new year. So much was denied to us, or postponed in its delivery, by the necessary measures taken by museums and galleries to combat Covid-19. But at the end of 2020, I realised that the year was bookended for me by superb encounters with new art: a remarkable video installation by Imran Perretta (
the destructors) at the Chisenhale Gallery and the latest dazzling paintings by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Tate Britain.
Despite those two highlights, I realise now how much I missed regular contact with the latest work witnessing emergent forces, seeing artists flourish as institutions trimmed programmes or kept their doors mostly closed. But as I write, talk of vaccines dominates the airwaves and social media, and a return to fresh encounters seems possible.