Artist Claire Jackson's Curious Hideaway

Born in St Bees in 1982, Jessica moved to Scotland to study sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in 2000, going on to do an MFA before completing a practice-led PhD in sculpture in 2013 funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Her research considers the relationship between interior and exterior spaces of the body, but looks neither inwards towards a hidden core, nor outwards from the subconscious, instead looking orthogonally across the skin to the movement of the body itself, using the surface of the body as a mode of both looking and thinking.

Moving beyond a bi-directional model, Harrison proposes a multi-directional and pervasive model of skin as a space in which body and world mingle. Working with this moving space between artist/maker and viewer, she draws on the active body in both making and interpreting sculpture to unravel imaginative touch and proprioceptive sensation in sculptural practice. In this way, Harrison re-describes the body in sculpture through the skin, offering an alternative way of thinking about the body beyond a binary tradition of inside and outside.

Here is the work of a highly talented ceramic artist, and someone I am very happy to have exhibited with, more than once now.

Here is the artists statement from the degreeart website:

"In my work, I like to tell stories using symbols which are universal, when you look at my work you could tell your own story, and would interpret what you see in your own way and each work in the series is created to evoke a different moods and emotions.

I am exploring abstract appropriated images from our culture and translating these onto the surface of my work. I feel that they address or allude to specific ideals that interest me.

By working in ceramics and using colour, it is my hope to marry the beautiful form with imagery that subtly informs or confronts the viewer to think about a larger issue – to ignite the thought provoking process.

It is my goal to address people’s ideals and thoughts about what is beautiful and to try and encourage the viewer to investigate and hopefully question or think about issues that are taking place all around us."

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"Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen‘s installations are straight out of a magical fairytale. Can you imagine stumbling upon a trail of glowing lamps in the middle of the night? Don’t pinch me because I don’t ever want to wake up from this dream . . ."

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http://www.runeguneriussen.no/

Andre Ermolaev's photography has inspired me for many years.

I first fell in love with his ambient and colourful artworks and his ability to capture nature in a profound way.

Here i wish to share a sample o this artists talent through Andre's Arial Photographs of Rivers and oceans.

http://500px.com/andreabe

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Seattle-based sculptor Dan Webb's Wood sculptures are amazing in texture and shape, the intricate details show off the beauty in the grain of the wood, whilst amazingly and almost impossibly capturing an alternative material in a surreal and captivating way.

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www.Danwebb.com

I was truly amazed at these stunning and excelently executed, photorealistic fashion spread paintings

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The enlarged fashion pages by Italian artist Stefania Fersini bring back to real scale the characters and the scene in the foreground, creating a parallel world made of models, scenarios, icons of our society. As in front of a mirror, viewers recognize the reflection they aim to identify with. Magazine papers picked recycled from rubbish, with their twists and reflections, divert the attention from the scene. Together with the products’ captions, they represent Consumerism and Appearance, that is the values and myths of nowadays society.

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Krisztianna‘s write up comes off simply enough: “My name is Krisztianna, and I like to make art and stuff.” She describes her works as “Prints, Originals, and Kraftings”. These works, though, are much more intricate than they sound. Her stunning Muertita series is a complex mix of Styrofoam, paper mache, wire, clay, wood, acrylic, synthetic flowers, twine, pins, glue, sealant, screws, and “lots of love”.

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With five in the series—Momma Muertita, Spring Muertita, Summer Muertita, Autumn Muertita, and Winter Muertita—each sculpture is a brilliant mix of color and conceptual vision.

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www.Krisztinna.com

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Artist Adam S Doyle is interested in what’s not there, he uses long swift brushstrokes, calligraphic in style, to create his images.

They are bold and simple, yet infused with he essence of the subject.

Using eastern art as a foundation, Doyle manages to find a balance between the elegance of form and a representation of ‘energy within’.

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This is no easy task, “I’ve always loved unfinished paintings because you could see the alchemic process of surface and paint transforming into a living person. With my paintings, it does take quite a bit of working and reworking to arrive at the place where every brush stroke fits into a fluidly flowing whole. It’s important to me to find a balance between an elegance of form that holds both visible marks of paint and a representation of ‘energy within.’”

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Details are a main focus as is minimal color and less is more with technique. Doyle is captivated by trying to visualize energy and in his bird series he gives us a dynamic collection in which the energy is front and center.

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http://adamsdoyle.com

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Up Drop, 2010

Approx 5' around x 9' tall

Plastic debris (PET),rivets, tinted polycrylic, mica powder, + steel armature

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Aurora Robson is a multi-media artist known predominantly for her transformative work interrupting the waste stream using plastic debris, excess packaging and junk mail.

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"Her work is this ethereal and organic combination of plastic bottles, rivets, monofilament, junk mail, excess food packaging and many other types of waste that fill our landfills."

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Sputnik, 2006

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Aurora Robson, Belch (aka Tarball) Aurora Robson

Belch, 2009

100% plastic marine debris

photo by Art Evans

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http://aurorarobson.com/

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