Polly Wales’ jewellery celebrates imperfection with her eroded gold and mosaic gemstones, drawing from an eclectic mix of references from Byzantine and Indian jewellery. “We make jewellery that never has a perfect moment”, Polly says. “The moment I’m talking about of shiny newness that somehow heralds the beginning of the end, resulting in jewellery that makes impossible… Read more »
Like a bowerbird searching for the best materials, Dutch artist Anne ten Donkelaar searches for damaged butterflies, broken twigs, bumblebee, weeds and other unique discoveries. Taking the time to explore her finds, she invents her own stories about their existence. Flower constructions are her 3d collages created from pressed flowers and cut out flower pictures. Each… Read more »
Inka and Niclas are Swedish photographers whose subject is the earth itself, in all its wild glory. In their series “The Belt of Venus and the Shadow of the Earth” they shone gradient lights over beach rock formations, highlighting their rugged form. Interacting with the natural world Inka and Niclas create their own mystical, almost… Read more »
It seems Argentinian, New York based photographer Lula Aldunate engages religious symbolism to explore her love of crockery! Carefully sourcing elements from flea markets she builds patterned plate mandalas playing on colour themes and clashing prints. http://www.lulaland.net/
Untitled Screen Series is a collection of images by photographer Matthew Tischler. Shooting through a screen, the effect of the grid is such that images are divided, pixelated, and filtered. Subjects and figures are broken apart and reconstructed in such a way that they are both integrated into their environment and isolated within it. None… Read more »
Daily Overview is one wesbites mission to share an image of the world from above – for better or worse. The view flying into a city from an aeroplane or even just a glimpse of the earth recorded from a satellite gives you a small sense of perspective on just how small we are but… Read more »
Angel Oloshove is a Texan cermicist who cites Freddy’s hat in the dreamscape of Friday the 13th and the dishes the Flintstones would use as just some of her references. She regularly travels to Japan where she perfected her craft and her pefect pastel gradient vessels are her “Little Creatures”. What beauties!
Originally from California, but now based in New York Brian Vu is a photographer set on exploring rainbow light, hallucinogenics, psychedelic spirituality and euphoria. He describes his photographers as the cure to a bad dream, something to propel you to the other side of the dreamscape. http://www.brian-vu.com/
In 1846, Dutch entrepreneur Pieter Fentener van Vlissingen introduced the production of Indonesian batik cloth on a mass scale. The Batik print fabric was a very popular trading good for ships stopping in West Africa and, after initially launching his product in Holland, Vlissingen started selling in Africa in response to high demand. Since then,… Read more »
Ellery seems to have been the talk of the week with her MBFWA show at Iceberg’s Bondi. The concept behind the collection was a play on light and shadow, with the striking feature print of black and white moon phases scattered throughout the collection from subtle details with small neckerchief to the boned strapless gown…. Read more »
Congratulations to Haryono Setiadi on his incredibly beautiful collection for S/S 2015! His structural shapes were Inspired by the Australian coast line, paired with a palette derived from the Spanish modernist architecture. Although the deep gradients and vibrant colourways only added to it’s Australian feel, reminding us of the warm oranges of sunsets, the hyper-colour… Read more »
A great day 1 of MBFWA! Desert Designs’ gorgeous show ‘Together, Towards the Water’ was a medley of amazing prints drawn from the archive of Aboriginal artist Jimmy Pike. DD were inspired by three of Jimmy Pike’s stories, including ‘Japingka’ depicting how people and spirits work together, harnessing the forces of nature to create waterholes; ‘Mangkja’… Read more »