3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Salman Khoshroo, born 1983 in Iran, spent his childhood years in New York. After a few intermittent years in Iran he went to study in the Australian National University, where he received his degree in Digital Art. He currently lives and works in his studio in Tehran mainly with a large palette knife spreading oil colours directly on the canvas. Khoshroo’s paintings harness figurative abstraction to evince very concise figures of emotional tension.
Since it was launched in 1964, there has been a total of 47 Pirelli Calendars shot by 37 different photographers. The 2019 edition of The Cal was photographed by Paolo Roversi and featured Claire Foy, Mia Goth, Chris Lee, Indya Moore, Rosalía, Stella Roversi, Yara Shahidi, Kristen Stewart and Emma Watson.
Fashion label Comme des Garcons (@commedesgarcons) unveiled a colossal mural on the facade of Dover Street Market’s as a part of Dover Street Market’s 15th anniversary (@doverstreetmarketlondon). Designed by Rei Kawakubo and illustrated by Pokras Lampas, the monumental installation is the largest of a series of collaborations between Lampas and "Comme des Garçons" in Dover Street Market’s many international locations including Beijing, New York and Tokyo.
“Mineral” is a new photographic exploration of environmental issues, researched by digital artist Davy Evans. Plastic pollution is a huge threat the climate, and finds its way into every corner of our environment. The iridescent colour pallet has been created in-camera to represent the high oil content used in today's plastic production, which in turn drives the demand for oil.
,ALIVE’’ is a dynamic object based on biophilic design principles. Biophilia is the innate tendency of a person to seek a connection with nature, other forms of life, or just love for the living. The design object is based on research that rhythm or movement in nature creates a strong impression and a positive impact on the person. The most important thing in the work is the expression of the movement and the emotion. Designer was inspired by the water - the basis and source of all life.
,ALIVE’’ is designed for public interiors, offices or various public spaces where people spend most of their time. This object is created to provide the vitality of the environment and to remind and nurture Mother Nature.
Gifted illustrator Jekaterina Budrytė from Vilnius, Lithuania creates artworks with a twisted feeling of silkscreen process recreated in a digital manner.
Contemporary portraitist and surrealist painter, Loribelle Spirovski, is set to have her first Solo Exhibition in London at HOFA Gallery. Titled Love, Death and The Time I Knew You, this solo show will assemble select artwork from her most successful collections, showcasing her prolific talent and remarkable growth as a contemporary artist.
Born in the Philippines in 1990, this Australian artist has fascinated audiences at home and abroad with her distinctive style and approach to contemporary portraiture. Though admittedly intuitive, Loribelle's artistic style is also decidedly cerebral, rooted in the myths, music, literature, pop culture and experiences that inspire her and make her art resonate with viewers.
Her most recent works are surreal explorations of the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit. Inspired by her experiences as a migrant to Australia, you can feel the claustrophobia emanate from the canvas. Employing disjointed bodies and hollow forms, she compels her viewers – who she describes as "meaning makers" to confront and contend with their own emotional abstractions.
Norwegian photographer Øystein Sture Aspelund shares his latest series of eerie photography taken in the colour-twisted mist
Russia-raised world-based illustrator and artist Karina Eibatova shares her latest visual affairs and explorations with us. Whether it is commercial wall art for a hotel on Sri Lanka, or personal research on human-less nature, Karina leaves a viewer their personal way to interpret and interact with an artwork.
Mark Broyer is an art director and photographer based in Hamburg, Germany. He studied graphic design and worked as a freelance art director for several design and advertising agencies. Since 2013, he has been focusing on his own photographic projects at the same time
Berlin is a city in Germany that never stands still. This surrealistic series of Simone Hutsch features a mix of popular pre-and post-war buildings.
The Guardian is a free interpretation of the parable "Before the Law" from Kafka's book "The Trial". A peasant after traveling the world arrives in front of a gate, controlled by a fearsome Guardian. The peasant tries to pass through but the Guardian denies him entrance. Peasant and Guardian are the same character, the peasant, like each one of us, in front of his own fear; the guardian, something shapeless, that surround and control him. The Door/Gate the possibilities we encounter during our life.
You can enter at any given point and go whichever way you please. The circle has no
beginning and no end, no direction either. Too much freedom causes confusion, so people
have come up with their own notion of time that goes “clockwise”, following the hands of
time, on a growing scale. Increasing numbers, mounting years. Tic toc.
Death is transformation, like birth. Big events set the clock to zero again. Have you ever felt you’ve experienced a moment before? Relax, it’s because you have. In fact. Before. Or was it after.
In order to learn something, our previous self has to painfully shed the skin of previous
failed experiences to give our future self some advice for the road. No need to reject or
deny the feeling that sometimes you just know. In advance. For certain. Stuff that hasn’t
happened yet. Your inner feeling is correct. It’s possible to go there as well.
AVIVA is a circle of life in all its forms. Aviva as a palindrome; a word that moves both ways. A viva, as “up from the dead” in Latin; up from the dead, towards life, in the opposite
direction. Despite its static nature, the circle of “Aviva” is not a still life, nature morte, dead nature. The seemingly silent pictures aspire towards life, to light. A moment freezes and time will become nothing but an arbitrary construction, shackles we don’t need any longer.
You can enter at any given point and go whichever way you please
Zhang wanted to be a classical oil painter and Knight wanted to be an opera singer. Now they make beautiful films.
Directors: Zhang + Knight
Producer: Luke Tierney
Production Company: @friend_london
Talented illustrator Viktor Miller Gausa is back with updated portfolio of portraits made in b/w and colourful digital techniques
Denitsa Toshirova is a Bulgarian-born portrait and editorial photographer currently based in Berlin. Her personal work explores topics such as identity and the body and it is often situated within the genres of experimental and fine art photography.
Vicki Ling is a visual artist and illustrator currently based in Chicago, USA, has a strong eye for detail and a unique ability to convey emotion through her fictional imagery.
Madrid-based artist Rocío Montoya, specialized in illustration and mixed-media collages shared her latest project: “Hybrid flowers and other tales” as part as her new venture into digital illustration.
