May 27th, 2011

Check out the work of Chris Kenny.

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January 7th, 2011

Batteries are quite hard to recycle and you’re never quite sure what happens to them once you’ve dropped them into a box at your local supermarket – do they get re-processed in the UK or shipped abroad and have to travel great distances in order to be recycled. So it was a joy to find the work of Michel de Broin today who create a piece entitled “Dead Star” made from used up batteries.

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November 19th, 2010

I found this on Flickr and thought it was amazing – would love to see it in real life to get a better sense of the scale of the work. I tracked down the artists website here, so go and check out what else he does, but I think this is my favourite.

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November 5th, 2010

Nina Lindgren is the artist behind the tower cardboard art installation known as Cardboard Heaven.

Cardboard Heaven is a large sculpture made up of small individual cardboard houses that together stand an impressive 177 inches (almost 15 feet) tall. All the individual elements of Cardboard Heaven stack one on top of the other to form a large self supporting cardboard community – but there don’t seem to be any doors – only windows. These are lit up to give the impression that Cardboard Heaven is occupied, but by whom?

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September 24th, 2010

Anna-Wili Highfield is a Sydney based artist currently making sculptures of animals from torn paper and from copper pipe. I particularly love the paper sculptures which are created from archival cotton paper, that is painted, then torn and sewn together, to create the figure of an animal.

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September 17th, 2010

I visited Gallery O website today – a gallery that focuses on miniature art and I discovered the work of Dalton Ghetti a Brazilian artist living in Bridgeport Connecticut who carves the tiniest sculptures made entirely from the graphite lead at the tip of a pencil.

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September 10th, 2010

I’m about to book a place on a jewellery workshop [I hope there are still places available] happening at St Andrews Museum on Saturday 25th September run by jewellers Jane Gowans and Hannah Livingston. It’s come about because of the Causing Chaos exhibition at the museum curated by artist Claire Barclay for Fife Contemporary Art & Craft. The exhibition looks at “how art objects may reference functional things but subvert function through ambiguity of use and meaning” and features the jewellery and metalwork of Shari Pearce.

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September 3rd, 2010

I discovered these beautiful porcelain hearts today entitled Corezone. Corezone is a closed ceramic space, where you can place your thoughts, feelings, emotions. Write them down on small pieces of paper and put them inside the heart. You must then physically break your own heart to free them.

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September 2nd, 2010

Jessica Hische is a typographer and illustrator working in Brooklyn, New York. I discovered her work on Craftgawker today and decided that this week’s Theme Thursday would be a selection of her beautifully printed alphabet. Letterpressed on Crane’s 110lb Lettra paper, these individual letters are a selection from the first six alphabets of the Daily Drop Cap project. Printed in an edition of 75. How lovely!

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August 31st, 2010

By Friday I was quite ill. I’d caught a cold at some point during the week and was trying to ignore the fact that I had a sore throat and runny nose and a bit of a cough, but by Friday morning I had no energy left. I got up and had a shower and then curled up on the sofa and refused to move. We had a planned an early start as we wanted to walk to the Serpentine Gallery and then go to the Saatchi Gallery too, but my body refused to move.

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August 30th, 2010

We went our separate ways this morning as I wanted to hunt round Spitalfields Market for treasures and Colin wanted to head back to Tate Modern. We decided to meet up after lunch outside the Hunterian Museum.

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August 27th, 2010

Wednesday, we went along to the Tate Modern to see a couple of exhibitions, namely “Exposed – Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera” and “Francis Alÿs – A Story of Deception” – both worth going to see. I only knew of one work by Francis Alÿs but I’d never seen it, so this exhibition was a great surprise to me, whereas the Exposed exhibition simply brought together a lot of work I’d already seen before but within separate exhibitions, books and documentaries.

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August 24th, 2010

A while back I went to see the exhibition held at Coburg House Studios and I’ve just not had the time to post up some pictures I took of the lovely work I saw.

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