Kiki Smith

Contemporary Applied Arts: Intelligent Trouble: Loop

In this exhibition six artists made work between them: suggesting, prompting and responding with objects, materials, sounds and words.  'As much as being finished objects the works in this collection are pauses in ongoing conversations, bringing together exchanges that have happened and pointing to ongoing possibilities. The processes of collective production are laid bare, any ‘aesthetic’ runs deeper than the surface – they look, and sound, like what caused them to be.'

Prototypes and Experiments VI: Casts and Moulds

The Aram Gallery presents Casts and Moulds, the next installment in its on-going exhibition series, Prototypes and Experiments. The sixth show focuses on casting and moulding as a means of manufacture. The exhibition displayed prototypes of design details as well as whole cast projects. These trials, tests and experiments are valuable for both the designer and our inquisitive design audience; providing the latter with a unique chance to explore the design process through its varied stages.

ART AGAINST KNIVES

Art Against Knives is an inspirational charity founded by Oliver Hemsley and Katie Dawe. Art Against Knives was born after Oliver Hemsley, a 21-year-old student from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design was tragically stabbed.

'Art Against Knives works to reduce the root causes of knife crime through youth-led arts initiatives that provide an alternative to violent gang culture.'

Please find out more from the links below:

http://www.artagainstknives.com

http://vimeo.com/11901050

Andreas Gursky

 

 

 

Nic Knowland - Hackney In Bloom - Highly Commended

Nic Knowland has won numerous awards due to his creativity and talent but surely this has to be one of the greatest. He has been highly commended for his front garden in the Hackney In Bloom competition. Personally I think he should have won, but perhaps that is because I am a bit biased, as he is my dad.  

LAB CRAFT @ Tent London 2010

'Lab Craft: Digital adventures in contemporary craft is the new Crafts Council touring exhibition that features 26 makers who combine the hand, mind and eye and technical mastery of tools with cutting-edge digital technologies. Some of the most experimental names in craft feature in the exhibition, with many making new work.'

Zachary Eastwood-Bloom

Geoffrey Mann

Simon Schubert - Paperwork

The German artist Simon Schubert painstakingly creates works of art by folding paper into elaborate designs.

Maya Selway

These are Maya Selway’s Kish bowls, they’re almost echoes of objects, a process she describes as ‘the beautiful random patterns created through fusing gold and silver dust become ethereal, spectral objects that frame empty space and suggest solid form’.