Selected Works by Contemporary Artists and Photographers
Rachel Hannyngton Floating oil on canvas, 2009
We put together a little collection of paintings which explore the different ways artists have depicted water, creating images that make the water look inviting, refreshing and engulfing. Continue reading “The Art Circus Looks at – The Water”
‘Big Air Package’ is made from 20,350 square meters of semitransparent polyester fabric and 4,500 meters of rope. The inflated envelope is 90 meters high and 50 meters in diameter, which is installed inside the former gas tank Two air fans creating a constant pressure of 27 pascal (0.27 millibar) keep the package upright. Airlocks allow visitors to enter the package. Illuminated through the skylights of the Gasometer and 60 additional projectors, the work of art creates a diffuse light throughout the interior. Inside the sculpture, an extraordinary experience of shape, space and light is provided.
Continue reading “‘Big Air Package’ by Christo at Gasometer Oberhausen”
28th Mar – 2nd May 2013
NO WAY in collaboration with Ghostown and the Print House Gallery present the first ever UK exhibition of works by Toshio Saeki. Known as ‘the Master of Japanese Erotica’, Saeki blends traditional Japanese technique with his own bizarre and perverse imagination.
Continue reading “Toshio Saeki at The Print House Gallery, London”
Capitol Designer Studio have commissioned artists Lily Jencks and Nathanael Dorent to create this pop-up installation in Primrose Hill. Lily Jencks says “One is about perception – how you perceive distances and shapes; and make sense of space. The other is about how to display an object that’s for sale; we wanted the space to be more than just a showroom selling tiles; to rethink the commercial transaction as something more creative.” Continue reading “‘Pulsate’ by Lily Jencks and Nathanael Dorent, Primrose Hill”
Suberites Domuncula is a natural sponge that a species of hermit crab pinches to camouflage itself. In this piece, the little crab has taken the idea of camouflage a step too far.
Timothy Foxon studied at Wimbledon School of Art. He collects and hoards items, then accompanied with other ingredients he reappropriates their original purpose and function. Using a certain naivety and playful approach, Timothy creates surreal sculptural one liners. Continue reading “Art Circus Spotlight
‘Suberites Domuncula’ by Timothy Foxon”
21st March – 27th April 2013
Jethro Buck’s fascination with the ancient art of Indian miniature painting is core to his work. It is not only the beauty and fine workmanship that has captured his imagination, but also the fables and mysticism that has created such rich and exotic art for hundreds of years. FREEFALL is an exhibition of 30 paintings that blend East with West. Incorporating his own expression, narrative and scale, to the form and decorative style of classical Indian miniature painting, Jethro Buck studied with classical Indian miniaturist master Ajay Sharma and has composed a body of contemporary paintings inspired by the experience of his journey to India, a country both ancient and modern.
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Camilla Engman is a Swedish born artist and illustrator who lives and works in Gothenburg.
Do you come from a creative family?
No I don’t, I could even say the opposite. I’m from a working class home. There was no encouragement, but not otherwise either. I do not remember when I decided to work towards being an artist. I think I needed another way to express myself than those which was available. Continue reading “Q&A with Camilla Engman”
My work stretches from the complete ridiculous to uneasiness and the oddball mystic. I often use objects in relation to paintings; alluding to the absurdity of a dating site, trying to match dysfunctional lonely souls that may not want to reproduce.
I have a particular interest in awkwardness and what specifically defines it. It is a phenomenon, which seems to dominate the Internet and much of the media world. Poor in resolution, production and subject matter, images float effortlessly in this non space. I look at stock photos and compare them with images from other eras. In the painting Fractures of the Modern World, I was trying to paint as effortless as possible (which is a contradiction) mirroring this economy with bits of pillars made of plastic/foam, which articulate an ineffective material for holding up an idea, no longer made of marble. A facemask references beauty but this couple border on caricature and composing/de-composing themselves can be a hard thing when, at the end of the day, they are still mortal.
See more of Sally’s work here
Montreal-based painter Peter Ferguson shows intricately detailed paintings, evocative scenes of explorers and adventurers with a 1940’s National Geographic meets HP Lovecraft twist. Peter Ferguson’s meticulously painted, darkly humorous narratives also evoke early 20th century small town Americana (or Canadiana as the case may be). Combining the fantasy of the great ages of exploration with a distinctly paranormal bent, Ferguson’s work hovers along the lines of fantasy without ever fully teetering into full scale camp, and his work retains an air of both wonder and occasional melancholy. Continue reading “‘Black Jubilee’ with Peter Ferguson at Roq La Rue, Seattle”
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