Lotte Fisher

Lotte Fisher's 'Soupstate Hill' installation from DCA degree show, a world in a tiny room complete with landscape, architecture, wild beasts, tame beasts and relatives a tiny fragment from another world . . .

"Tenzing is a world of strange creatures, structures and landscapes which is being slowly discovered by my alter ego, the pioneering explorer, Freeman MackInesker. The world has it’s own language and power structures and is almost as incompressible to Freeman as it is to us.Tenzing is brought to life through sculptural structures and creatures along with paintings, drawings and self-made publications.Only a very small area of Tenzing has been explored thus far and I intend for Freeman MacInesker to continue on his journey, discovering new lands for many years to come." Lotte Fisher

Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski is a French artist, photographer and sculptor who has worked in many media and styles.  

Made from the ephemeral  junk, clutter and scraps of life, here are some examples of his shadow installations. Shadow rooms, theatres of memories and fragile evidence of humanity.

What drives me as an artist is that I think everyone is unique, yet everyone disappears so quickly. I made a large work called The Reserve of Dead Swiss (1990) and all the people in photographs in the work are dead. We hate to see the dead, yet we love them, we appreciate them. Human. That’s all we can say. Everyone is unique and important. But I like something Napoleon said when he saw many of his dead soldiers on a battlefield: ‘Oh, no problem – one night of love in Paris and you can replace everybody.’I’m always a beginner, and the most important thing is always the next piece. We artists never know if we can do it again. You have done something – and most of the time I hate what I have done a few years ago – and you don’t know if you can do something now. The good artists are usually the very young or the very old. The ones who are very young are so stupid that they have no fear. And when they are very old they aren’t afraid any more. In the meantime, you are always, always, afraid. Christian Botanski 

Thank you.

Simon Ward II

I love it when you can see the artist talking about their work, so here is a makers profile on Simon Ward. 

Simon Ward I

Simon Ward makes ceramics but  his ceramics are made into large displays and installations. One of Simon's main themes is taking ordinary functional objects and giving them a new role with their meaning and function elevated.

The throw away, the mundane and the common are re-positioned, and given center stage and inspiring re-evaluation. You can see Simon's display of small porcelain birds with blue and white glaze at VAS until February 28th 2015.

Juan Fontanive

A breath takingly beautiful, kinetic installation by Juan Fontanive, please go and see his ornithology and vivarium works, you will not be disappointed in his stunningly beautiful flip book machines made with watercolor and image transfer onto bristol paper, with steel, aluminum clockwork and electronics. They are really hypnotic.

Tomoyo Kawase

Tomoyo Kawase is a Japanese illustrator from Osaka who uses paper cut out illustrations to create delicate installations of her work.

Hernan Paganini I

 

 

Collage and a desire for strong colour has drawn me to the work of Argentinian artist Hernan Paganini. Hernan's modern urban style of work traverses sculpture, graphic, styling and installation.

"I am inspired by everything that surrounds me, I am amazed easily as a child. I playing with my environment, try to transform my daily reality as a result emerge moments of life through materialising the sensations that I have inside. Since I was a child collected and sorted all kinds of things that I found in the street with the passing of time this stuffs became in my raw material to develop much of my work." Herman Paganini

Linda Florence

Now we have had some music it is time to dance, so here are some of the gorgeous 'sugar floors' of artist Linda Florence. Linda Florence is a printmaker, surface designer and installation artist.

Jean-Michel Othoniel

A theatre of bubbles and veils, enticing and secret, 'Le petit theatre de Peau d'Ane' is an installation by Jean-Michel Othoniel currently being exhibited in the children's gallery at the Pompidou Centre, Paris until August 22nd 2011. It was originally conceived as the set for tiny puppets that Pierre Loti had played with as a child, puppets that Jean-Michel Othoniel discovered in this famous French writer's house.

Georgia Crook

Georgia Crook's exhibit in the exhibition Craft and Biodiversity at the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens.

Caroline Dear

These are some images from Caroline Dear's installation at the Craft and Biodiversity exhibition that I visited today at the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens , Caroline has made the installation from string moss.

Anna Hepler II

Maps and charts and flight patterns, Anna Hepler uses simple materials to create three dimensional spacial forms capturing ephemeral natural phenomena such as whirling flocks of birds.

" I am interested in portraying fleeting moments of suspended or built geometries" Anna Hepler

Hannah Bertram

Hannah Bertram's fabulous dust from 'Things that come and go'. I couldn't post her pierced envelopes and not have some dust.

Elis Vermeulen

Elis Vermeulen is a master felt maker, this is an installation called 'They That Watch' it consists of giant suspended cocoon forms. "... this piece is not about things that will happen in our lives, but about us waiting for it, about our anticipation and longing ..." Elis Vermeulen

Emilie Faif

Another installation by the wonderful Emilie Faif, lace globes suspended like clouds, eggs or cocoons. It is very dreamy and peaceful like snow.

Tomas Saranceno

Tomas Saranceno studied both art and architecture, his art is about space it stretches out tendrils across galleries or fills the sky with clouds. Tomas's work is concerned with how art can build dreams for the future, how art can collide with science and architecture and make our future. He has no web page that I can find, here is the best link.

Choi Jeong Hwa

Garish, playful and magical, these are the fantastic flower trees of Korean artist, designer, architect Choi Jeong Hwa. Choi Jeong Hwa's work sings with energy, vibrance and happiness, he uses an amazing array of materials and object to create works of monumental scale and great surprise.