Darren Almond is a London based artist interested in time, place, personal history and collective memory. He makes sculptures, photographs, films and works on paper based on his travels, which often take him to remote locations—his film ‘In the Between,’ 2006, which focuses on the symbolic nature of the highest…
Njideka Akunyili is a Nigerian born US based Artist. After graduating from Yale and being selected for the Prestigious Studio Harlem residency programme in 2011/12 her incredible talent has been gaining her a loyal following putting her firmly on the radar for major collectors and museums. The Artists stunning mixed…
Leila Peterson is a Los Angeles based photographer who works primarily in film. As prints they are stunning and I stumbled across her work by accident researching fine art photographers. They have a sense of isolation to them especially in her series and my favourite, ‘Tiny Discoveries’. Natural raw landscapes…
The ‘Oh the Horror’ linocut print set was made especially for this year’s Pick Me Up exhibition at Somerset House inspired by The Shining, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween; “the unholy trinity of horror movies.” Each print has been developed from an initial set of illustrations based on objects…
Jon Burgerman is a Brooklyn based Artist that’s ‘interested in instigating improvisation and play through drawing and spectacle.’ The Artists new blog see’s him address ‘the tumblr girl phenomenon’ (the constant re-blogging of photos of girls online) joining in with a self initiated project that involves illustrating and reposting eccentric…
Celine Marchbank is a London based documentary photographer, graduate of the MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication. Her work is based on finding and capturing the beauty in the small details of everyday life. My favourite range of her work is the pieces titled, ‘River…
Joel Rea lives and works in Queensland, Australia. Harvesting ideas from his dreams and life-journeys, the incredible artist presents narratives through surreal land/seascapes, animals and portraiture ‘interplaying with human relationships formed in our society and consciousness.’ Joel’s spectacular reflection of detail and realism involves intense concentration with some paintings taking…
Finn O’Brien has created this wonderful booklet for Peckham Springs, a summer-long bar and gallery space. A top-notch piece of graphical work which has a sexy colour palette. Thanks to this booklet design, we will most certainly be attending the space for a cocktail and a peruse of the artwork.…
Erica Donovan is an artist and printmaker with a specialty in screen-printing and she embraces the use of simple, bold colours. She uses this highly skilled technique to methodically produce multiple layered works which have a unique clear and direct visual language that parallel the concepts behind her work. She…
Catriona Gray is a London based photographer and printer. She works both in film and digital, producing visual and intellectually stunning photography. My favourite ones from her prints are the ‘The Might Caucasus’ and ‘The vastness of Mongolia’ both have deep underlying meaning yet still shows the dramatic landscape in…
Designer Kelly Angood wanted a ‘real’ medium format camera, but knew she couldn’t afford one, consequently she dealt with it the only way she knew how and made one! After setting up a page on kickstarter to gain funding Kelly has spread the world about her beautiful prototype camera (screen…
‘I am just trying to be nice’ is a book about the work of Nug, giving a visual overview of the controversial graffiti artist’s pieces from exhibitions to graffiti pictures, video stills and paintings. 2 Editions of the 64 page publication are available, with an exclusive edition featuring a one…
Sabrina Russo is a freelance Graphic Designer that ‘dabbles in illustration, art direction and copywriting creating designs that are ‘humerous and human’. Based in East London the designer works across a range of different disciplines and developed ‘a love for all things printed’ whilst studying at LCC. I first saw…
Johanna Basford is an artist based in Scotland who graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 2005. Her illustrative style is very distinctive and is widely recognised within the artist world. She specialises in detailed ink drawings of various subjects, from flowers to hand drawn animals. I have followed her work…
Andrei Tarkovsky was a very popular Soviet and Russian film maker. I stumbled upon some of his photographs and with the film photography. I found them beautiful and wanted to share his book titled, ‘Instant Light’ which showcases all the photographic work he produced over the years and shares insight…
I made it down to Print Club London’s Group show last week (on till May 24th) and was really impressed by the variety of exciting illustrative/typographic imagery and super friendly Print Club fam who made me feel more then welcome and gave me the chance to catch up with my…
Madeline Mackay is an artist based in Dundee who graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 2012. She specialises in drawing, lithography and lithography on wood. Concepts relating to place and land informs the work. I find Madelines work very unique as not many artists use wood lithography and she does…
Ryan Thayer Davis is an American Artist currently based in his hometown of Austin, Texas. Ryan’s paintings depict exciting patterns and textures in abundance of vibrant colours through expressive brushstrokes and layering. His exciting portfolio demonstrates oil paintings, lithographs and monographs with his mixed media pieces being created with spray…
BOTTLE OF SMOKE is another independent t-shirt company based in Bristol which aims to create a non-sequential line of t-shirts that amaze, amuse, evoke and displease. Ultimately becoming ultimate bizarre thrift store finds in twenty years time. BOTTLE OF SMOKE is currently a one human operation and designs are created…
In anticipation for the return of the early 90’s classic kicks, the Air Jordan 5 ‘Grapes’ edition (sporting a fresh new colourway) (out NOW) is celebrated by the dope French Graphic Designer Alexis Taieb (AKA TYRSA) in a video directed by Axel Morin & Julien Capelle) The amazing clip parallels…