MIRRORCITY explores the effect that the digital revolution has had on our life and experiences of the city. Presenting artworks in a wide variety of media including painting, film and video, sculpture, drawing, sound and performance from a group of […]
New commission by the award-winning, New York-based Japanese artist Ei Arakawa presents a new work with Jutta Koether that continues Arakawa’s recent collaborations with painters like Amy Sillman and Silke Otto-Knapp, where painting forms a backdrop or theatrical prop for […]
Admitted to a psychiatric hospital at the age of 29, Bispo’s creations were made in complete isolation from the art establishment. However his ‘outsider’ art has long been celebrated for its skill and imaginative approach to working with everyday, found […]
Thomas Schütte is one of the most important artists working today (born 1954). His exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery will focus on a selection of key sculptural, painted and photographic portraits. Schütte reassesses the figurative traditions of art, presenting emotionally-charged works […]
American sculptor Josiah McElheny (b. 1966) transforms the Whitechapel Gallery into a kaleidoscopic hall of mirrors. Seven large-scale mirrored sculptures are arranged as multiple reflective screens on which he projects reconfigured abstract films. The Past was a Mirage I’d Left […]
Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) was one of the best known artists of the 20th century, whose work has inspired a rich commentary from academics and critics alike. Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed will show original documents from the artist’s […]
Antony Gormley has over the past 30 years revitalised the human form in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation. “I am interested in the body”, he says, “because it is the […]
This is the world’s largest open submission contemporary art show, now in its 244th year. It continues the tradition of showcasing work by both emerging and established artists in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture and film. Get […]
One of the UK’s most renowned sculptors, Richard Deacon, will be exhibiting at London’s Lisson Gallery this month (11th May – 23rd June). As an artist who explores the boundaries of a whole range of materials from glass to leather, ceramics […]
What better way to immerse yourself in the Queen’s upcoming Jubilee than a visit to Buckingham Palace itself! From 30th June until 7th October, Buckingham Palace is open to visitors to explore the inside and out for £16.50 (concessions ticket […]
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Junya Watanabe Junya Watanabe Commes des Garçons Autumn/Winter 2008-09 ______________________________________ Junya Watanabe Junya Watanabe Commes des Garçons Autumn/Winter 2009-10
Philip Treacy for Alexander McQueen www.philiptreacy.co.uk
‘The 1778 victory of the Franch Frigate La Belle Poule inspired new hairstyles such as the La Bele Poule, inspired new hair styles such as the á La Bele Poule (below), the á l’Indépendante and the á La Junon, in which scaled down replicas of warships […]
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David Askevold: The Disorientation Scientist 22 July – 25 September Ten States in the West (detail), 1978 ___________________________________ Mathilde Rosier: Necklace of Fake Teeth 22 July – 25 September Le Bonheur dans le Crime, 2008 ___________________________________ Katie Cuddon: Spanish Lobe […]
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This chair is made and designed by Scott Jarvie using 10,000 drinking straws, yes the ones you stick into your drinks and chew on for fun. Have a look on the website to see how the development and process of […]
Miss Pokeno a.k.a. Alannah Currie (yes part of the Thomson Twin 80’s synth duo band) has created these obscure chairs that hold real taxidermy within/on them. Have a look one her website for more grandeur chairs and stuffed animals. www.misspokeno.com […]
Yes, this is a 3 headed sheep chair. No one really knows where it’s from or who it is by, but either way there’s not much to say really. Just plain weird. But have a look at what UnNews make […]
This chair is kind of intense but intriguing. Simone Racheli is an Italian artists who recreates everyday household objects to look like raw flesh. Don’t worry it’s not real flesh, it’s a combination of paper maché, plastic, wax and metal. Have […]
Kerstin Schulz had the honour of designing this Pencil Chair for the well known Faber-Castell’s 100th Birthday. Using thousands of ‘castell 9000′ sharpened pencils, sculpted together to create a chair. She also created other objects of suitcase, lamp and table […]
Many designers have made ‘Cork Chairs’ before but Gabriel Wiese puts a little more finesse and style to them, as you can see. These are just 2 out of 9 she had made and designed; can’t imagine she’s not a […]
Tom Price’s chairs involve a ‘heating and pressing’ method onto various materials/objects from clothes, rope and plumbing tubes. Have a browse on his website for more of these quirky chairs, as well as other obscure sculptural objects he’s created. www.tom-price.com […]
There’s a handful of Chair Designs made out of cardboard; here are just a few cherry picked ones. David Graas These are David Graas FIY Cardboard Stool and Chair, but have a look on his website for more sustainable and […]
This are just two (small) examples of Boris Bally vast creations. This guy recycles street signs, found materials and even weapon parts into useful objects (as well as installations and experiments) by human hand! Listing them would be silly, when […]
Design company Reddish Studio have thought more to a bath tub than bathing in. Using a readymade to recreate a new meaning to an object is pretty damn cool, what the bathtub feels about this, we’ll never know, but it’s […]
Peter Bristols’ Cut Chair take a good while to figure out, once you do you realise how amazing this really is. Check out his website for more of his innovative projects and designs. www.peterbristol.net
Throne of Chairs by the Mozambican artist Cristovao Canhavato (Kester) Made of ‘decommissioned weapons collected since the end of the civil war in 1992 in Mozambique’ You can see it in the British Museum for yourself:
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Excerpt from Time Out about the new Saatchi Gallery Exhibition. www.timeout.com/london/art/event/27617/the-shape-of-things-to-come-new-sculpture Saatchi Website. http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/sculpture/ David Batchelor John Baldessari Sterling Ruby ______________________________________ Website: www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk Address: 77 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AW Telephone: 020 7730 8135 Opening times: 10am-6pm, 7 days a […]
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_____________________________________________________ Website: http://www.southlondongallery.org/ Address: 65 Peckham Road London SE5 8UH Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7703 6120 Opening hours during exhibitions: Tuesday – Sunday, 11am-6pm Except Wednesdays, 11am-9pm Café opening hours: Tuesday – Friday, 8am-6.30pm Except Wednesdays, 8am-11pm Saturday – Sunday, […]
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3 CANICHES 2008 CANARD de BAIN 2007 MAX (in participation with Harmjan Timmerarends) 2003
