Sandrine Pelletier borrows her creative and production processes from folk arts, arts and crafts, as well as DIY always working and experimenting with the limits of materials. Her artwork ‘Goodbye Horses’ consist of three galloping horses which were created using suspended wool coated in black latex and tar and hanging it from the ceiling.
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Besides all the great artists, designers, architects, painters and photographers we introduce on iGNANT, we are also secret suckers for beautiful texts and gentle poetry. No wonder we are even more thrilled when the two disciplines come together, like in the project ‘Wall Piece with 200 Letters’ by Mikko Kuorinki.
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Laura Bacon’s contemporary sculptures are initially inspired by nest-like forms and she has developed her own unique language with materials – a language that communicates the properties of the materials she uses and her strong desire to turn chaotic amounts of raw materials into ‘spaces’ of some kind.
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Italian sculptor Aron Demetz created a fascinating piece of work called ‘The Tainted’. Demetz explores the human figure with his wooden sculptures and shows incredible skills in carving wood. He uses the material to highlight the harmony as well as the conflicts between man and nature.
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Tel Aviv-based artist Michal Taharlev creates stunning artworks inspired by old family photos without using brushes or writing tools. Armed only with a sharp needle and lots of patience, Taharlev pokes the canvas thousands of times to reveal an image.
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Rob Mulholland, a scottish sculptor who created this series of mirrored, reflective sculpted figures called ‘Vestige’ within the forest around the David Marshall Lodge, Scotland. Camouflaged by their surroundings, they absorb their environment and reflect the constant flux of movement and light day by day.
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Sculptor Jessica Harrison examines the relationship between interior and exterior spaces of the body. At first sight her work ‘Handheld’ is slightly disturbing. It’s a collection of sculptures that seem to be made out of real, fleshy skin. Actually the sculptures are made using casts of the palms and backs of the artist’s hands.
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Max Grünfeld is a dutch illustrator from Amsterdam, who’s now living and working in Hamburg. Studying at the Art Academy ArtEZ, Netherlands and Escola Massana Art Academy, Spain, her work is a mix of spanish and dutch culture and art. She doesn’t really like talking about herself and her work but the more she likes telling stories with her illustrations and not just paint beautiful pictures.
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The paintings Ian Davis has been working on for the last few years all fit together into one body of work. Formally, they rely on an intricate network of patterns. Almost every element in each work is based on systems of repetition to create a hypnotic effect. Ian is interested in the imperfection of the human hand and its inability to do the exact same thing twice.
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