The delightful Trump collages of Texas-based artist Peter Kremer.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
On this day in 2009, the death of Edward Delaney RHA.
Irish History Bitesize! tweetz:
Award-winning @Aosdana sculptor. Studied @NCAD_Dublin & Germany. eg Thomas Davis on College Green (angels later, awakening 4 provinces), Wolfe Tone & Great Hunger in St Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
I, Cardbot
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The meticulously crafted cardboard, glue and toothpick robo-creations of Melbourne-based artist Greg Olijnyk.
New works here.
Deep Thought
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The serene variegated sculptures of Australian artist Gil Bruvel – his expression of Vipassanā meditation, which strives for introspective, judgement-free contemplation of the mind.
Composed of stacked and glued, burned and painted sticks, pixellated up close and coherent at a distance serving as “a reminder of what it looks like to be centred and at peace.”
Fadó fadó…
More of his work here.
‘Doubts’: an extraordinary sculptural rug created over the months of lockdown in Baku by Azerbaijani textile artist Faig Ahmed.
In former Soviet republic, rug pees on you, etc.
More of Ahmed’s glitchy textiles here.
“To a raven and the hurricanes which bring back smells of humans in love from unknown places”: an elaborately titled but rather adorable exhibition at Madrid’s Reina Sofia’s Palacio de Cristal by Kosovar visual artist Petrit Halilaj in collaboration with his fellow artist (and partner) Álvaro Urbano.
A metaphorical nest with oversized oversized forsythia, palm seeds, cherry blossom, poppy, carnation, and lily blooms – all based on the elaborately decorated nests created by courting bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus): ‘a place for the celebration of love’, according to Halilaj.
Mmf.
A moodily impressive short by artist Yang Yongliang that combines the light of cities with the stars in the night sky.
The film was originally made for the 70 metre wraparound screen of the MGM Coral Theatre so it’s best viewed full screen in a darkened room.
Steel Life
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The stainless steel sculptures of Australian artist Georgie Seccull (bottom pic) who sez of her process:
We are born out of chaos in darkness and come into the light—my process is much the same: I begin with a thousand pieces scattered on the ground, then working almost like a jigsaw puzzle, I pick them up one by one and allow each piece to come together organically and dictate the outcome
More of her work here.
