Chloe Early is an Irish born, London based artist who uses her canvases to explore the contradictions between the romantic and the gritty. Simultaneously dreamlike and unflinching, her oil paintings are a place where opposites meet, they are full of colour and space and play with abstract and collage effects in interesting ways.
Four years after initially covering the incredible journey of photographer Kirsty Mitchell’s Wonderland series, we’re here to present to you with another page of what Mitchell is calling Wonderland’s final chapter, in the form of the behind the scenes of "The Stars Of Spring Will Carry You Home."
Behind the Scenes footage of "The Stars Of Spring Will Carry You Home" by kirstymitchellphotography.com, filmed and edited by fxmedia.co.uk
Have not seen anything sexier than these gloss paint on paper semi-nudes looking very sultry. That's the work and magic of UK artist Natasha Law (sister of Jude Law). Natasha is represented in by Eleven Fine Art in London
You don't need a special announce to mention the rocket start of a new iOS game "Monument Valley". Designers from "the creative silicon valley" - Shoreditch, London forming the agency UTSWO released the game being inspired by the surreal world of M.C. Escher.
"Monument Valley is an elegant puzzle game where you guide a young princess, Ida, through a maze of ruined monuments. You manipulate the landscape to let Ida get from place to place, using optical illusions to your advantage – as in Monument Valley, when walkways appear to line up, Ida can walk along them – even when you know that they really don't." via Digital Arts
Official Trailer:
Behind the scenes:
In these films they explain how the works of MC Escher and the architecture of ancient temples inspired both Ken's visuals and way the game is played.
The team also revealed their favourite things about the game and its creation in the video below.
When ShaoLan Hsueh realised her children didn't have the patience to learn Chinese, she wanted to simplify it for them – so she worked with graphic artist Noma Bar on a new book that turns a fiendish world into a visual treat called Chineasy. It is a visual-based learning system which teaches Chinese characters, simple stories & phrases. This building block system allows learners learn speedily with great fun enjoying Chinese history, classical and pop culture.
Beside the beautiful website full of colourful illustrations you can order a book on iTunes (few left as a hardcopy here) that ShaoLan has kickstartered a few months ago to keep Chinese easy for everyone.
For their Street Eraser project artists Tayfun Sarier and Guus ter Beek (who both work at Wieden+Kennedy) created giant adhesive stickers that look like the eraser tool in Photoshop. Once applied to advertisements, graffiti and other objects it appears as if the surface is being erased, revealing Photoshop’s checkerboard background signifying a blank canvas.via Colossal
UK-based award-winning figurative artist Mary Jane Ansell shares her latest artwork on maryjaneansell.com. With a love of intriguing narratives and in catching a contained but dramatic moment Mary Jane's work draws influences from a multitude of inspirations, from classical portraiture to the world of haute couture and with an appreciation for a refined technique that invokes the past but with a resolutely modern viewpoint.
I have not watched much of Wes Anderson films, but in Grand Hotel Budapest I was really impressed by the quality of each frame, colour and the amazing transitions he uses. Few days later I found a video that explained much of Wes' perfectionism - UK based director Kogonada did a nice research for Anderson's love to symmetry and centred composition.
P.s. One can point that Wes was inspired by Stanley Kubrick way of building a frame, so mister Kogonada has also explained master's obsession in a centred composition a year ago here
London based designer turned director Greg Barth creates framed illusions for the range of projects, from video art and Installations to Music Videos and TV advertisements. His latest instalment made for Little Burgundy magazine were he was invited to create a cover.
One of the leading contemporary sculptor Thom Puckey released few new provocative works in 2013. The most of his marble objects are the individual female figures, young and completely or partially nude, are invariably and disquietingly accompanied by the presence of modern weaponry. The message is strong and the content is tough, you might either get or not into the subject of his works.
Halley Docherty juxtapose Google Street View snapshots with classic paintings to say a new word in digital art.
Peter's sculptures are sensual and beautiful objects that demand to be stroked and handled. With his latest series he creates cognitive dissonance where the material changes its nature by the will of the artist. More on www.peterbrooke-ball.com
Miriam Elia's new take on a 1960s Ladybird book. Peter, Jane and Mummy go to a gallery and learn about sex, death and contemporary art. She successfuly ran first thousand prints through Kickstarter project but it is the Ladybird book publisher Penguin, rather than the art world, which isn't so happy about the project. We hope she resolve the legal issues this spring and we will have a chance to order the book from her website.
Beccy Ridsdel shows exactly what I thought ceramic plates are hiding from our eyes - the beautiful inner organ layer. Using surgery metaphor Beccy explores the perception of ceramics as craft of art.
Advert-free photographic journal, The Quarterly, seeks funding on Kickstarter for third issue The voluntary team behind the award-winning photography publication, The Quarterly, has returned to Kickstarter to raise the final funds needed for a larger print run for the third issue of the magazine.
The advert-free publication has developed a large following online and the respect of the photography industry in its 9-month existence and this final round of funding is “crucial” to its ongoing success, said the journal’s editor, Sanj Sahota.
We’ve grown so much in the last few months and now we’re finally at a point where we have the audience loyalty to print loads more copies but we need a small amount of funding to get there,
Each issue of The Quarterly is given one theme and professional photographers from around the world are invited to propose ideas and creative interpretations on each theme, Sanj explained.
Check the details of Issue 3 on the Quarterly website
UVA explore light and movement with great new installation - Momentum
“My first question was how can we curve light,” Matt Clark of United Visual Artists says standing in the studio’s new installation at London’s Barbican. Momentum – which opens today – consists of “12 pendulums that activate light and sound as they swing” but that doesn’t come close to explaining the brilliant experience it provides.
"A new fashion photography book by London-based image maker Sylwana Zybura (a.k.a. Madame Peripetie) is just about to be released by German publisher Seltmann+Söhne. Titled ‘Dream Sequence’, the book contains a series of portraits of imaginary characters, whose features are replaced by flowers or other objects while their bodies are covered with bizarre garments and colours. The book which evolved out of a long-term photography project, has won several awards (including the Double Gold at PX3 2011 in Paris, and an honourable mention at the International Photography Awards 2013 in New York), and has been compiled for costume designers, fashion stylists and everyone who is interested in character design and image building in general." via Yatzer
Architecture + Evolution + Movement = Universal Everything Referencing the utopian visions of 1960’s architecture practice Archigram, Walking City is a slowly evolving video sculpture. The language of materials and patterns seen in radical architecture transform as the nomadic city walks endlessly, adapting to the environments she encounters.
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