By Kyle McDonald & Matt Mets, a unique little collaboration whereby a machine controls a viewer whilst they are blind folded, then via a camera records their face and makes them draw a blind self portrait of themselves. The results are something quite wonderful, a full set of the portraits are on their Flickr.
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By Simon Schubert, creating these detailed architectural ‘drawings’ from singular sheets of paper, he adds no colour or shade to them, only manipulating each surface. They have such a sense of depth and dimension.
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By Rhianne Masters-Hopkins, a very good friend of mine who makes these vibrant, expressive surrealist paintings, often working with textures and white space that is played off by brilliant explosions of rainbow-coloured pattern. I always love how so much is contained within small areas of colour. (She has only just gotten started on Tumblr so I would love to see her work getting out there a little more!)
Over the summer period I am curating an exhibition, I will be putting a piece of my own work (yet to be made, yikes) into the exhibit along with a large group of other artists local to the area. I’m excited to be curating my first exhibit so it is going to be a really big event for me personally.
I’ve spent the better part of a day finishing off the final poster design, Facebook event and Tumblr blog for it. I will be using the blog for the exhibit to upload sneak peeks into the exhibition planning and pieces of work being made for it, hopefully it will be a good build up to the event itself. If any of you are local to the Midlands in the UK I would appreciate it if we had as many people as possible coming along! It isn’t going to be running until August, so there is plenty of time until the event! Lots of time to plan ahead and put it in your calendars and schedules!
The more the merrier, there’s a really mixed bunch of artists involved, sculptors, painters, performance artists - the variety of work should be wonderfully unique. We gave everyone 3 words to choose from to base the founding idea behind their piece around, the words were; Brood, Bedraggled and Lagniappe. Here’s a copy of the poster, if you’re available pop in! Free wine and cakes will be provided on the private view so there’s an extra incentive!
By Ivo Rijkers, working with large sheets of fabric that have been coated in polyester then draped over a humanoid figure, finally setting them into these rigid pieces. The resulting works are these suggestive sculptures that give the viewer a glimpse of a form, shrouded in long, flowing contours from the fabric.
By Adeline de Monseignat, the surreal and mysterious forms contained within the glass vessels make for a tantalising body of works to be around, certainly the top piece, that interactive space makes for a really interesting touch.
“When it comes to inspiration, imperfections in nature are what trigger my curiosity – a drip, a drop, a crinkle, a wrinkle – an imperfection is the sole evidence of life. I am always on the hunt for the perfect defect; the thought or sight of something challenging – shades, lighting and reflections – will immediately arouse my craving for creating.”
I made this pair of tiiiiiiny little pliers the other week to fit this little silver-plated frame I found. It’s miniscule!
I sent it to Adam of The Rhumboogie as a little gift alongside his order from my Etsy shop.
They really are tiny! A big thank you to Siobhán for the wonderful, and ever fascinating cross-stitch work! Anyone with good taste and a sharp sense of humour should check out her blog!
By Adrián Villar Rojas, a most fascinating environmental sculpture, a to scale blue whale situated in a beautiful forest. The subtle addition of the tree stumps to make it look like it is already being assimilated by nature, brilliant touch.
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By Brooks Shane Salzwedel, carefully layered mixed media and drawing to make these really unique landscapes. It adds so much depth to each piece just by having several layers of images built up on one another.
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