Collages by Ciara Phelan
Ciara Phelan, a freelance illustrator and textile designer in east London, recently launched her new website full of intricate collage work and other marvelous projects
Tattooed Porcelain Figures by Jessica Harrison
Jessica Harrison proposes a multi-directional and pervasive model of skin as a space in which body and world mingle. Working with this moving space between artist/maker and viewer, she draws on the active body in both making and interpreting sculpture to unravel imaginative touch and proprioceptive sensation in sculptural practice. In this way, Harrison re-describes the body in sculpture through the skin, offering an alternative way of thinking about the body beyond a binary tradition of inside and outside.
Alasdair Thomson
Alasdair Thomson is a sculptor living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is Italian-trained and has significant experience in carving large scale sculpture and other elements of decorative stonework, both in Scotland and abroad. Through his current series of sculptures, Alasdair is exploring the way fabric hangs and folds, and is attempting to capture that lightness and gracefulness in stone. Named 'The Identity Collection', his recent sculptures are carved copies of garments donated by his friends and family. Seeking to capture the characters of those he invited to donate, he surrendered the control of the content of the series by allowing others to submit garments of their choosing for him to carve. The results are simple and understated, as well as timeless and nostalgic.
She Was Only
She Was Only is an independent design studio in London. Devoted to simplicity, creates intelligent and exciting visual communication that shows ambition and insight.
Elsewhere by Von
Illustrator Von's latest solo exhibition, Elsewhere, opens at KK Outlet in London next week. Elsewhere, is a collection of delicately beautiful drawings based on photographs shot by Dan Sully. Each portrait in the collection explores those fleeting moments where we involuntarily slip under and away from all of our surroundings, appearing to others absent and completely elsewhere.
"Based in London, Von studied illustration and animation at Kingston University and set up his own studio, HelloVon, in 2006. He's since produced work for Nike, Selfridges, Penguin, the New Yorker and the Paralympic Games and has exhibited fine art work in London, New York and Los Angeles, including the beautiful graphite and pencil series Animals and Semblance, a collection of portraits combining traditional and digital image-making techniques. For his latest exhibition, Elsewhere, Von has created another series of graphite and pencil drawings, this time depicting subjects who are lost in thought. The show includes both large and small-scale artworks and Von has collaborated with Non-Format, HORT, David Pearson and Darren Firth on a set of limited edition exhibition posters, available to buy on his website."
Read full interview on Creative Review
Chloe Early art
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.
Kirsty Mitchell Photography
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
Natasha Law art
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
Monument Valley Game App
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.
Chineasy
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.
The Giant Street Eraser
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
Mary Jane Ansell art
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.
Wes Anderson Centred
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
Greg Barth
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.
Thom Puckey
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.
Google Street View goes Classic
Halley Docherty juxtapose Google Street View snapshots with classic paintings to say a new word in digital art.
Art of Peter Brooke-Ball
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
We Go to the Gallery
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.
Ceramic sculptures by Beccy Ridsdel
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.
