M&S Christmas TV Ad 2017
"We can now reveal our Christmas advert - the tale of true Christmas spirit - with our favourite Paddington Bear", M&S, London 2017
"We can now reveal our Christmas advert - the tale of true Christmas spirit - with our favourite Paddington Bear", M&S, London 2017
The Cereal Abode is as much an investigation of space, form and colour, as it is an opportunity to create a beautiful, functional living space. Created in partnership with Greenwich Peninsula (architect Santiago Calatrava) and Aucoot, Cereal Magazine has styled the interior of a new duplex penthouse, which is for sale on Greenwich Peninsula – an area of London undergoing a cultural transformation
London-based FutureDeluxe were approached by Wacom & Iris London to create a self-initiated art film with an open brief. The result is a surreal and experimental art piece combining woman and bird to tell a beautiful visual story within an imaginary world of intricate colour and detail – Plume.
New York-based, British artist Anthony McCall practices in the fields of film, installation, sculpture and drawing.
Anthony McCall. "Long Film for Four Projectors" (1974). Installation view (2003). Photograph: Hank Graber.
Light Show at Hayward Gallery, London. Photo by Linda Nylind. 27/1/2013.
Anthony McCall. “You and I Horizontal” (2006). Installation view at Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2006). Solid light installation. 50-minute cycle in six parts. Computer, computer script, video projector, haze machine. Dimensions variable. Photograph: Blaise Adilon. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
Anthony McCall. "Between You and I" (2006). Installation view at Peer/The Round Chapel, London, 2006. Vertical solid light installation. 30-minute cycle in two parts. Computer, QuickTime movie file, two video projectors, two haze machines. Dimensions variable. Photograph by Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
Anthony McCall. “Face to Face” (2013). Installation view at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, 2013. Photograph by Jason Wyche.
Ahead of the launch of Maxim Zhestkov’s first digital edition on Sedition, Elements, this October 2017, they interviewed the visual and motion graphic artist from his studio in Russia to discuss his surreal animations, his approach to his own work and its subsequent reception.
Elements is an experimental video work by Maxim Zhestkov, which explores nature, physics, art and love through digitally animated ‘particles’ or ‘elements’. More than two billion particles, governed by tensions and forces influenced by those occurring in nature were used to replicate the motion of collective behaviour. As well as patterns of motion, the particles tell stories and evince emotional responses.
The film is a trial by the artist to explore the idea that everything around us and inside us is made from simple elements or blocks, which can be arranged in complex relationships and become compound structures. It demonstrates that there is a relationship between the tiny and individual, and the enormous and multiple. The ideas the work explores brings together emotions, behaviours, thought processes, relationships, life, planets and the universe.
Our friend "Anna Radchenko and Edgar Dubrovskiy team up to bring to life this sombre yet vibrant film. Encompassing rhythm and beauty, the scene is set around Jessica Louise transformed by the smooth makeup of Yulia Yurchenko. Haunting and unforgettable, the poetic composition is round off with comely muted styles by Hiroshi Goto and Dior under the supervision ofCamille Marchand." via Shön!
As OFFF "On Tour" Festival made his first successful step in the hot spot of creative scene - London, one of the best motion design studio FutureDeluxe took care of OFFF London Official Titles
Titled ‘The Spirit Of Ecstasy’, the artwork is a collaboration between the unnamed model, Chemical X and artist Schoony. According to the press release, “the British model and actress, who is a fan of Chemical X’s and already collects his work, has been identically recreated – as a hyperreal silicone and fibre glass model.”
The model was digitally scanned “posing in position with her hands and feet life cast” with her head and body 3D printed in order to make the silicone sculpture. This was then suspended into five sheets of acrylic “surrounded by a halo of 7,254 meticulously hand placed pills.” See images of the artwork below.
"Housed in what was once Cape Town’s tallest building is the newly unveiled Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), created by London-based architect Thomas Heatherwick. The institution’s 80 gallery spaces were converted from 42 historic grain silos, storage units which were once used to hold and grade maize from all over South Africa"
"Heatherwick Studio transformed the tightly packed tubes into open areas of contemplation, carving out various oblong shapes to make room for large social spaces and lots of light from overhead windows. Heatherwick wished to clear out large spaces for the galleries, however he was also careful about not eliminating the tubular structure of the building completely."
"Currently hidden away in the City of London’s landscape of glass and concrete is a vibrant and squishy celebration of playfulness in the form of Villa Walala. The latest creation by textile-designer turned installation artist Camilla Walala opened on Saturday as LDF’s Landmark Project, and will remain open until 24 September." - Ruby Boddington @ It's Nice That
Walala was chosen by London Design Festival’s headline partner British Land to create this year’s Landmark Project to celebrate the 15th anniversary of London Design Festival
During UK bank holidays on 25th of August Designcollector Network ran a successful exhibition that explored intersections digital and physical forms - "Phygital" in art, featuring 50 Artists working in the field of near-future terms. This year's theme was "Cyberia - the Unknown Territories shaped by the Digital Ethnos" encourages artists to reflect on the concept of the newborn digital-native that is changing our common value systems.
Digital Decade 5 went on 25 - 27 August at Ugly Duck, London
For the 5th Edition we were lucky to collaborate with 3 huge online platforms working in the fields of Digital Art and representing the majority of online artists. If you are looking to promote your body of work, please consider this platform as a kick starter of your career
Ello is The Creators Network, a socially-powered publishing and collaboration platform supporting a global community of artists. Founded in 2013 by a small group of art & design professionals, Ello provides a creative oasis for artists and their fans while empowering artist x brand collaboration via our Artist Invites program.
Designcollector is proud to have Curioos as a retail partner. They are printing all artworks for Digital Decade 5. Curioos is a curated marketplace of lifestyle products designed by independent artists. It’s the one-destination for graphic artists to profit from their creativity by selling their artworks on high-quality, everyday products such as wall art, apparel and accessories.
Delivering Video Art challenge and showcasing selected artists on “Sedition digital Frames” at Digital Decade 5. Sedition Art is the world’s leading online platform for artists to display and sell their art in digital format for connected screens and devices. Sedition offers everyone an easy, enjoyable and social way to experience art-collecting at affordable prices. The company was founded by Harry Blain, the owner of Blain|Southern. The mission of Sedition is to change the art world by introducing a marketplace for collecting and trading art in the digital age.
Photos are taken by Antony Kitson
Sedition and Designcollector are delighted to announce the winners of the Digital Decade open call for video artworks.
During July 2017, artists working with the moving image submitted their responses to the theme ‘Cyberia’ to an open call co-ordinated by Sedition and DesignCollector Network.
85 artworks were submitted by artists whose work responds to the geopolitical, environmental and social changes which are taking place, and will take place, as a result of the increasing influence of digital practices worldwide.
Five artworks were chosen for exhibition in Digital Decade 5 organised by DesignCollector Network, which takes place from 25-27 August. Digital Decade 5 will combine works from a range of media including print, video and VR to look to the digital future.
Markos R. Kay is a digital artist, director and lecturer with a focus on art and science. He is best known for his video art experiment aDiatomea (2008), exhibited at Ernst Haeckel's Phyletic Museum, and for the generative short The Flow (2011), which can be seen in an episode of the TV series, Breaking Bad. His art and design practice ranges from screen-based media to projection and print. Kay’s work can be described as a series of experiments using generative methods which explore and abstract the complex worlds of molecular biology and particle physics.
Created as a series of virtual experiments, Quantum Fluctuations shows the complexity and transient nature of the quantum world, which is impossible to observe directly.
Joëlle (b. 1982) is a South African designer and visual artist whose work is focused on exploring the connection between sound and form. Her creative process is led by experimentation and emotion and she considers her output a reflection of her environment and state of mind.
Her works range from music videos and generative graphics to live real-time visuals and are constructed of computer generated imagery and audio responsive elements that result in moving images largely sculpted by sound.
Turmoil explores themes of fragility and desolation. A longing for a world untouched and unbroken.
Yoshi Sodeoka is an artist from Yokohama, Japan, who’s lived in New York for more than two decades. Sodeoka’s neo-psychedelic work with video, GIFs and print simultaneously inhabits the world of fine art, music (he’s collaborated with bands like Psychic TV, Tame Impala, Yeasayer, Beck, The Presets), publications (creating art prints for New York Times, Wired Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, Entertainment Weekly), and advertising (developing projects with brands like Apple, Samsung and Nike). Sodeoka’s work has been shown all over the world, from Centre Pompidou, Tate Britain, Museum of Modern Art, Deitch Projects, La Gaîté lyrique, Channel 4 Random Acts UK, Baltimore Museum of Art, OneDotZero, Sonar Festival, Transmediale, Whitney Museum of America's Art Artport. His artworks are in the permanent collections of Museum of the Moving Image as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Sodeoka’s experimental video art collective, Undervolt & Co, was founded in 2013.
When Hell Freezes Over is a time-based realization of the print triptych and consists of composited elements which capture the cycles of nature. The seasons are rendered as emojis as the work flits between Bosch’s famous painting and digital culture at its most recognizable and ubiquitous. When Hell Freezes Over is both a humorous mash-up and reflective comparison of Bosch’s iconography and Emojis, the virtual sign/symbols of the present century.
Overlap's Nearfield appears as a moving piece of audiovisual abstraction rendered in a palette of mostly whites, occasionally interrupted by nuances of new colours which add a subtle warmth to an otherwise icy ambience. As the visuals unfold, Overlap’s polyphonic soundtrack produces a series of alien vibrations, evocative oscillating disruptions which carry the shifting shadows across the screen. As hypnotic as they are haunting, Nearfield creates a view into an isolated and entirely abstract world in which detail appears to have been replaced by impenetrability and ambiguity. As with other works from the Glide collection, Nearfield appears to delve into our psyche, relating experienced dreams to realised abstractions.
"Like the loop-de-loop scribbles of a child, artist Jung Lee (previously) constructed a series of neon light sculptures that were installed and photographed against cinematic landscapes as part of her series titled “No More“. "
Jung Lee was born in 1972 and currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea. She received her M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art, UK and her B.A. with honors in Photography from Kent Institute of Art & Design, UK. She received a B.A. with honors in Mass Communication & Journalism from Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. She most recently participated in 2012 Daegu Photo Biennale, the Incheon Women Artists Biennale, the 2010 Gwangju Biennale “10,000 Lives” under the direction of Massimiliano Gioni, the contemporary Korean photography exhibition “Chaotic Harmony” at the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). She has also shown at the Seoul Museum of Art and Gwangju Museum of Art. She will participate in the upcoming Esslingen Foto and Media Triennale. via ONE AND J. GALLERY
Matthew Stone is an artist and shaman. These two interconnected roles are defined by his activities as painter, photographer, sculptor, performance artist, writer, Optimist and cultural provocateur.
Stone’s most recent body of work demonstrates an innate enthusiasm for the development of painting within the framework of art history. The new works, use 3d modelling software and paint to break with the history of painting on a flat surface, lifting the strokes into a virtual and free space. The addition of shadows and foreshortening creates an illusionistic - trompe l’oeil sense of depth and perspective within the canvases. He organises and examines complex statements in regard to the relationship between painting, photography & computer generated imagery disrupting the holy status of painting as the ‘cosmic flesh’ of art history whilst simultaneously pushing the visceral experience of paint forward. The series offers a new technical approach to traditional painting, showing diverse bodies at play and in conflict.
Camille Walala (previously) has transformed Greenwich Peninsula’s Now Gallery into a colour labyrinth of wonder. Walala X Play opened through 24 September and her zigzag paths, winding walls of different heights, hanging shapes, and mirrored panels are all decorated with Camille’s signature geometric patterns and brash colours.
The installation is also a puzzle, taking the form of a 3D “spot the difference” in which visitors are encouraged to seek out anomalies in the pattern, with new differences being introduced once a month during the installation’s run until September.
The print designer and artist was selected as Now Gallery’s 2017 Design Collaborator and the piece forms part of the gallery’s summer programme.
Words by Rebecca Fulleylove
For her US solo exhibition debut, artist Lucy Sparrow opened a pop-up convenient store at the Standard, High Line Hotel. “Handmade in Manhattan: 8 Till Late” is a ‘fauxdega’ that features 9,000 handmade felt products that are all available for sale.
Sparrow transformed the 1,200 sq ft space into an exact convenient store replica with food, books, drinks and household products. The exhibition was intended to run from June 5 – June 30, but due to overwhelming demand—all of the products were sold, shelves were emptied and the store closed 9 days early on June 21. Sparrow even closed the store for 3 days midway through the show’s run to restock the shelves but was still unable to meet customer demand.
Artist Anish Kapoor is back with a new exhibition titled Destierro – which translates from Spanish into ‘exile’ The exhibition, taking place at Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires, features three installations that see Kapoor veering back towards his signature style of work with pigmented powder. However, unlike his previous work, the three pieces on display in Argentina shine a spotlight on the global migration crisis marking a change in direction for Kapoor who has, up until recently, shied away from making political work.
Kapoor is the first British artist to put on a solo exhibition in Argentina. The space, Parque de la Memoria, is also known as Remembrance Park as it was built in memory of those killed by Argentina’s military regime between 1976 and 1983.“Destierro (exile) can be seen as one of the major global dramas of our time," says the exhibition’s curator Marcello Dantas. “This exhibition was reborn in light of our urgent times.”
We are extremely happy to won the Creative Season Summer 17 at London's Ugly Duck residence in August for 3 days. The Digital Decade 5 “Cyberia” is a group show based on artworks and installations selected by a group of partners and curators mainly from Digital and Video Art fields. Phygital Exhibition includes immersive experience in Physical and Digital works to be done in Prints (including Competition Winners), VR Art (check website for VR opportunities), Interactive and Projection Mapping installations
"English painter Mary Jane Ansell creates work that both subverts gender roles and pays homage to the history of portraiture. In a new show at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles, “Of Dreams, Birds and Bones,” she offers a series of paintings that evolves these ideas. The show kicks of June 10 and lasts through July 8. "