3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Delaney Allen is an American photographer whose work investigates self-exploration while surveying and masking varying objectives within photography. Employing the use of self-portraiture, still-life and landscape, Allen constructs an individualised path as the collections intersect in storytelling
Contemporary artist, creative director and illustrator Gabriel da Silva based in Miami, creates modern version of Bosch as its personages has been teleported to the Adventure Time series and get some portion of magic happy pills
You may heard from us the stories about magic art projects coming out of Studio Drift hands (Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta). Here is another chapter of their tender child made of dandelions and light - “Another Future”. Released on the leading Instagram art platform @Avant.Arte Another Future consists of nine luminous real dandelion seeds, hand-picked and glued seed–by–seed to LED lights. An (already sold out) edition of 50, it is made from conductive print, dandelion seeds, LEDs & plexiglass. Includes a micro-USB cable and a location-specific plug.
Talented young artist from Russia - Viktoria Veisbrut went full circle from tattoo art to canvas and further on the street walls. Her visual stories went beyond colourful murals, depicting informational overdose of our days and the needs to sedate ourselves on a daily visual diet
Artist Sebastian Burdon aka Whatshisname is a London-based sculptor mostly known for his “balloon”-like dogs he started doing few years ago as a fun, being fed up with one famous guy. After he was accepted as a raising star he changed the game and started running a series of limited editions for his “POPek” and “PEEPek” “balloon-dogs” and recently released an anthropomorphic version called Jeff Balloonski.
Artist Szilard Gaspar practicing professional boxing as well as arts, sculpture and performance
“On a both practical and conceptual level, in my artworks, I always try to express and give artistically shape to the energies that I experience in my life as a sportsman. The artistic result in my artworks comes from accumulated personal experiences and many years of experiments with different art materials, with my body and my mind. Combining art with sport and the specific elements of these two different life styles, shaped my passion for art, which is the most distinct and strong part of my personality. Now, I can express myself more freely since I found my original way of making artworks and performing.”
Bite tongue, deep breaths
Azamat Akhmadbaev (b.1991) is a visual artist who lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works across many disciplines including painting, photography, video and digital art. His artworks operates in the gap between glitch art, abstraction, minimalism and graphic art. Also he is a founder/editor-in-chief of @dontpostme_magazine - a magazine about contemporary art. Private collections in Russia, Spain, the USA, the UK and Poland
BITE TONGUE, DEEP BREATHS, 2020 is a part of an ongoing series of digital artworks by Azamat Akhmadbaev. This artwork continues to explore the limits of digital art world, and it was inspired by a song by Clams Casino & Imogen Heap ‘I’m God’.
Having taken the repeating words ‘bite tongue, deep breaths’ from the song, the artist has transformed a sampled song’s melody and text into the colorful artwork with infinite number of layers. Using glitched, vandalized images and texts (in a special, manually designed fonts) as brushes on a digital canvas, Akhmadbaev represents a dualism of the digital and the real, physical world. Technically, the artist checks out the ability of auto and manual software tools to create the image with glitched, lost, degraded effects. Conceptually, the artist launches the self-reflexive process with a manifestation of his attitude to the legacy of the post-war (abstract painting) and 90’s (usage of computer technologies in art) periods. And references to the popular song are the digitally manipulated links with culture and time in history discourse.
Garden of Hubris, oil and acrylic on canvas
Sholto Blissett (b.1996) is an artist from Salisbury who lives and works in London.
Garden of Hubris I, water based emulsion on canvas on board
Growing up surrounded by the ancient sites of Stonehenge and Avebury stone circle, Sholto has always had an interest in the fictions which societies create in an attempt to understand their place in nature. Hence, Sholto’s largescale, fictional landscapes explore humankind’s relation to nature. At first glance, he evokes the Kantian division of the human and nonhuman; yet his works then turn the viewer towards the Sublime realisation that these two notions are indivisible. Thus, the original, Kantian conception of the Sublime in which the human and natural are purported as separate are challenged by the alternative arguments emerging from the events of the Anthropocene. Sholto encourages the viewer to realise their – our – inescapable intertwinement with the natural world.
Yinka Ilori is a London based multidisciplinary artist of a British-Nigerian heritage, who specialises in storytelling by fusing his British and Nigerian heritage to tell new stories in contemporary design. He began his practice in 2011 up-cycling vintage furniture, inspired by the traditional Nigerian parables and West African fabrics that surrounded him as a child.
Always curious for contrasts and bold simplicity, Lou bases her artworks in the act of balancing abstracted memories, feelings and music. All of them influenced by a minimal and modern approach to the diversity of her Latin roots.
David Åberg is a digital sculptor and 3D animator. His pieces are created virtually and without limitations of gravity and materiality. From the imagination and the limitless starting point, his artistic handicraft is filtered through a digital pen and touch-sensitive drawing screens.
Åberg’s tactile process is in this way transferred into algorithms, in the dialogue between individual creativity and descriptive mathematics, that formulates into digital spatiality and sculpture.
“There is something exciting in this technology and its relation to drawing. By drawing on the screen’s two-dimensional surface I manipulate the geometry, which presents itself as three-dimensional objects. Furthermore, I see the media as a metaphor for the constructed, virtual, and intangible, and as raising questions about multidimensional realities and glitches in our communication.”
David Åberg is inspired by imaginary and esoteric art as well as sci-fi pop culture aesthetics and mythologies. With roots in art history, one might trace a clear relationship to natural forms in his practice, where the more strict language of technology is present. David Åberg's sculptures become detailed and hyper-realistic and simultaneously cause a transformation that turns away from our physical reality. In his universe - in the electronic, non-tactile version of reality - he builds up a fictitious gallery of personalities.and examines issues relating to fantasy identities and transhumanism.
Today, globally people struggle in isolation, while we commemorate 75 years of freedom in Europe and beyond. That juxtaposition inspired Casper Faassen to explore the beauty in isolation, fear, hope and freedom. Together with choreographer and dancer Marne van Opstal of the internationally renowned NDT, he made a short film combining these elements in an installation with dance.
Artist, designer and illustrator, living and working in Nottingham, UK - Eloise Renouf creates decorative yet simple, colourful but thoughtful collages inspired by the outside and rethought on the inside.
Developing themes and imagery that celebrate the everyday, James Joyce works in a range of media creating paintings, screen-printed editions and drawings. As a result of his exploration of imagery, typographic forms and applied graphics, Joyce has garnered a following around the world and has been featured in numerous books, magazines and awards annuals.
His bold and witty approach to image making regularly attracts commissions from a wide range of global clients including Apple, Nike, Jil Sander, The Guardian, The New York Times and Wallpaper* and he is often invited to collaborate with brands to create bespoke and exclusive signature products. James exhibited a video installation piece at Banksy’s art show ‘Dismaland’ alongside a number of other international artists including Damien Hirst and Jenny Holzer.
His work has been exhibited in various shows internationally, and his paintings are held in a number of private collections. Born in Wolverhampton, England, Joyce studied at Walsall College of Art and Kingston University. He now lives and works in London.
Award-winning Fine Art conceptual artist Romina Ressia (recently evaluated by Sony as an exceptional Latin American Photographer and nominated for Global Leadership Prize of 2020 Tällberg/Eliasson Foundation) constantly pushing the borders of art photography perception. Represented by The House of Fine Art (@thehouseoffineart) in London she is a part of virtual group exhibition “Myth-Making” opened this days.
Owner of a pictorial style, she is well known for her anachronisms and the use of the absurd and the irony to approach modern issues. The attempt to grant a fresh air to the classic style is another important characteristics of her work.
Slightly disturbing but magnetic works of Guenter Zimmermann have deep meanings and puzzles on an each and every digital layer of the canvas
“Digital work is very forgiving. Any mistakes are easily erased and this saves time and paper.
Of course, on the other hand the artistic decision is deprived of its radicalism. I would have loved to have seen Vincent van Gogh working on an iPad.”
Paper craft artists Asya Kozina & Dmitry Kozin were commissioned to create this masterpiece for ICART.
“Specially commissioned by our friends ICART, we created a modern portrait of a rebel businessman in the image of a punk. We believe that punk culture is in tune with modern business, which also constantly questions authorities, protests against obsolete rules, breaks down stereotypes and seeks its own way. In the Iroquois in the Baroque style, we have woven the symbolism of money, placing our hero in a powerful and provocative context.”
Anastasiia is a young and perspective artist with a strong vision and multi-tools approach. She started her career in 2018, exploring more and more new methods to talk with the people through her art.
Anastasiia started this project during well-known events that had taken place when the whole world stopped. Four-pieces project shows to us the author’s reflection on time. She used colours to show the highest impact of the past and the future. Colours and different techniques are one of the most used tools by the author. When you start from light and soft memories, you jump very fast to reflections about what the future has prepared for you. Days when no one knows what will take the place.
All This For Brioche (Marie-Antoinette)
Pierre Chaumont is a conceptual artist living and working in Montreal, Canada. His interests surrounds systems of power and their resurgence in culture, technology and society.
Woman In Veil
“We provisionally give the name differance to this sameness which is not identical: by the silent writing of its a, it has the desired advantage to referring to differing; both as spacing / temporalizing and as the movement that structures every dissociation”
The Beginning (Winged Lion of Mosul)
Following artist’s statement, “Differance is the questioning of inherent power structures within cultural, linguistic, technological or societal systems. By making this non-identical sameness at the heart of my art-making, I mimic, imitate, copy, tweak and ultimately alter these structures. I then present something visually familiar to the viewer while keeping this spacing at the forefront of their experience.
This process has two aims; firstly I wish to make these systems apparent to you, viewers, so as to question your own relation to it. Secondly, by giving a new understanding to what we know, I reveal the fragility of these systems and the possibility for individuals and communities to interact, take part in it, and reshape it.
No structure is infallible, nothing is stable ; the world is an ever changing photograph.”
AVE CALIGULA (Madness Is Always Rewarded)
Breaking The Spell (Perseus Beheading Medusa)
French ‘Oceanscape’ photographer Fotomas has been shooting some pretty delightful surf photographs. Mostly shot in Hossegor, south of France, Thomas uses very long exposure and creative photo filters to tweak his final colors, and the result is stunning
