“I like Hans Christen Andersen stories,” admits Jockum Nordstram, an artist known for his illustrations, drawing, paintings and collages, and who earlier in 2014 exhibited in London for the first time. “Sometimes I’m in a completely different world.” Whilst there is certainly a childlike quality to Nordtrum’s work, with his style of...
Earlier in 2014, acclaimed British photographer Shirley Baker passed, aged 82. She was a documentary photographer born in Salford, a truly working-class city in northern England whose urban plight was to inform most of her work for years to come. Like many street photographers of the 1960’s, she sought to capture the essence of working class...
Sigmar Polke was one of the more successful, more recognizable contemporary German painters until his death in 2010. It wasn’t too long ago when he was rewarded with his own retrospective at the Tate Modern in the UK, and as a product of the glorious swinging sixties, when art, fashion and music was beginning to boom again, his art certainly...
Frank Auerbach’s art was once described as impressive and as exciting as Francis Bacon’s, yet, for one reason or another, he remains much less famous. Not that the German-born but British-based Auerbach cares about fame and fortune, or perhaps even recognition for that matter. But with the kind of sinister, horrific but hugely eye-catching...
U.S-based but Nigerian born, Njideka Akunyili Crosby took the art world by storm in 2012, when her display at Art Basel sold out in less than an hour. It represents an extraordinary rise for the Yale University graduate, a remarkably articulate and considered young woman who centers her art very much on the question of identity – both...
The Shape Of Things To Come, a 1933 novel by science fiction writer H. G. Wells, predicted future events. Like all Wells books, it was ahead of its time. The Island Of Dr. Moreau, was another Wells novel that was futuristic and sinister in its outlook. It predicted the decay of morals among scientists who have wholly rejected God, leading to the...
German multimedia artist, social critic, theorist and all-round intellectual Hito Steyerl is making quite a name for herself in the visual arts. Based in Berlin, a city that has historically been connected to groundbreaking art, she fuses her video art with essays that border on academic dissertations, with themes covered including consumerism...
These candid everyday artistic moments of street photography were captured by professional photographer, Jesse Marlow – who resides in Melbourne, Australia. (source)
This series of street art was done by Sri Lankan based artist, Borondo.
Cybèle Young’s inspiration for her awesome paper sculptures are the ordinary objects of everyday life. The Canadian based artist has had her worked featured in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, and Elle, among others.
“Set III” is composed of nine equal elements… …they fill the space, but I am not interested in the physical aspect of filling. I want the work to become an energy centre, like an atomic station. It’s the same principle again: transmitter and receiver. The receiver is the same as the transmitter, only in felt. It is a totalization. The...
