What a coincidence – today I was reading the September issue of Harvard Business Review when the Spotlight Artist caught my eye. HBR has fairly recently started illustrating their Spotlight package with a series of artworks from an artist. I always like to look through the artworks, because they have had some very interesting [...]
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Since my possibilities to do textile art are somewhat limited for the near future I’ve been looking for ideas to keep me active on the creative front. Although I’m not a great producer of sketchbooks and it was a nightmare for me to have to produce one to accompany Dolly for the Freedom exhibition [...] I discovered the work of Isabelle de Borchgrave by chance today while browsing around the www. Isabelle makes the most amazing costumes from rag paper. They range from the Medici Collection that reproduces the sumptuous garments from the Florentine Renaissance period to Haute Couture including wedding dresses and veils and a paper coat made [...] I’ve not been doing anything creative to report on recently. The sketching ground to a halt due to the lack of a pet, horrible weather to visit the zoo and then needing to purchase chisel ended marker pens. I bought those yesterday, but I also bought my Christmas tree. Decorating the Christmas tree won [...] Yesterday Frankfurt put on a really neat event for Sqeze’s birthday It started at 7 p.m. and went on until 2 a.m. In fact it is an annual event and just happened to fall on the 24th April this year. 47 museums in and around Frankfurt open up their doors and put on special [...] Wangechi Mutu has been named the Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year for 2010. She is Kenyan born, but now lives and works in New York. Her work is mostly collages made from a variety of media, including conventional fashion and lifestyle glossies, pornography, and automobile and motorcycle magazines. Her main motif revolves around [...] Sorry about the title – it’s a bit naff imho, but that is what the Guardian chose to title the gallery of photos showing the work of inmates in Her Majesty’s Prisons. You can see the finished quilt ‘Wandsworth Quilt’ made by inmates at HMP Wandsworth that was produced on commission for the V&A [...] I have to admit that I wasn’t quite sure what all the fuss was about when McQueen’s death last month hit the headlines. He wasn’t actually on my radar, although I wasn’t completely unaware of him. A little research showed that he certainly designed some wonderful fashions. But when I saw this gallery of [...] Can’t seem to stop buying more books. These are my latest two purchases. I already have one book by Jennie Rayment about creating texture by various folding techniques. After finding the table of contents and some of the photos on a web site I decided that there was enough new stuff in this book [...] I was browsing the Guardian newspaper website and came across this set of truly amazing images. Entitled Hiding in the City the artworks show the Chinese artist Lui Bolin camouflaged against city locations in China and the UK. I really had to look quite hard to find him in the final image of the [...] |
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