Organic cephalopod and sea urchin forms constructed from pencils and pencil shavings by sculptor Jennifer Maestre.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Brazilian artist Butcher Billy’s various pop culture takes on the all-too-real meme that is Don ‘n’ Hill.
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The bespoke inflatable installations of Filthy Luker and Perdo Estrellas, who’ve been doing this since the early 90s.
You’ll recall those green tentacles on George’s Street in 2014 (top pic)
The excruciatingly detailed miniature monochromes of the American urban midwest by freelance artist Taylor Mazer, who uses a fine Micron pen to reveal the architectural light and shade of otherwise nondescript alleys and shadowy streets.
A constantly morphing lightshow projected onto the ceiling of Saint-Eusache Church in Paris by artist Miguel Chevalier.
Produced for Nuit Blanche 2016 on the 1st of October, the 35 cycling ‘alien skies’ were accompanied by Baptiste-Florian Marie-Ouvrard‘s improvised organ music stylings.
Imagined but entirely plausible client feedback on the work of graphic designers Théophile Steinlen, Milton Glaser and Saul Bass by Graphéine.
Hand blown borosilicate carafes by French artist Etienne Meneau based on the abstracted forms of blood veins, hearts and root systems, some functional and pourable, some sculptural (with the contents of a single bottle of wine permanently sealed inside).
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The art of 29 year old Italian boxer and painter Omar Hassan, who stretches his canvases over cardboard to prevent them tearing as he pounds them with paint-dipped boxing gloves. The ‘paintings’ – part of a series he calls ‘Breaking Through Milano’ – sell for between €8,000 and €40,000 apiece, which he calls “a great satisfaction, but not the goal”.