Disney princesses gets zombified by Thai illustrator Witit Karpkraikaew. Click here for the link.

Tim Hawkinson is known for taking a simple proposition to great extremes. He has a predilection for readily available materials – found, everyday objects, and often his own body – as material, reference, and model. He has a persistent fascination with perception, time, scale and the “primitive” or rudimentary. His process can be long and arduous, labor intensive, and repetitive. Play and humor emerge. Since the mid-1980s he has brought the most inventive and varied materials to life in a wide-ranging body of work, taking the ordinary into new and unexpected realms. (via Stuart Collection)

For an artist reinterpreting the still life paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, in a new medium, Kevin Best could not have been born in a more appropriately named country. New Zealand was named in 1645 after the Dutch province of Zeeland. Kevin takes us back to that golden era, he has amassed an extensive collection of items which featured in the original paintings, giant glass Roemer’s, delicate “Kraak” porcelain, German Westerwald jugs, agate and silver knives, silver cups and 300 year old bronze candlesticks that have miraculously survived many attempts to be turned into cannon. What he can’t find he makes, acquiring skills as a wood tuner, carpenter, set painter and jeweller. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the significance of every item in each work and how they interact with each other to form a narrative that had a deep significance in a time of great wealth and fear. A narrative that resonates to this day. Each work can take weeks or months to complete; his meticulous technique was learned at The Australian Centre for Photography.

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” I consider these masks as an experiments with identity, especially in the rituallistic way. The bearer is intended to accept his new archetypical identity and immerse oneself in his role. Animal masks resemble rather skulls or remains or abominations, they bear shamanic, dionisian or satanic symbolism, the form, material and overal execution is primitive, harsh and expressionistic. They are made to inspire the inner forces of man and allow behavioral self-expression through identity alternation (alcohol or drug use advised). Cardboard is used due to its good availiability so one can improvise and create new in a while for a new roles and make-up rituals. Some of them are fragile and therefore disposable. They are primarily intended to have fun with them.” – Jozef Mrva

I came across the work of the ridiculously gifted artist Steve James. I expect we’ll see a lot more from him soon.

For a number of years, the underlying theme in the work of Alet Pilon has been the’ balance of power’ between man and beast. Typically, she has tended to see man as dominant and animals as defenseless and vulnerable, prompting her to attempt, in her work, to dismantle the might of man and emphasise the power of animals. Alet Pilon was strongly affected by her short stay at Het Vijfde Seizoen, where she saw that not only animals are vulnerable, but that people can be vulnerable as well – and perhaps to an even greater extent. As a result, she decided to revise her point of departure, making the demarcation between man and beast – between ruler and victim – vaguer, whilst the urge for life continued to manifest itself. (via Het Vijfde Seizoen)

” My work aims to transport the viewer to a magical place in a distant land that inspires a visual story. I focus primarily on the female enigma, maidens of myth and mystery, and each representation that I have made depicts another side of a who a woman can be. The halos make reference to mythical beings who live in close harmony with nature. Rabbits often feature in my work. In folkloric traditions they are an archetypal symbol of femininity, associated with the lunar cycle. “A rabbit in the moon,” they say.” – Lauren Schofield

Boxetti collection is driven by three basic design principles – functionality, advanced technologies and contemporary aesthetics of minimalism. Each of Boxetti modules is designed to achieve maximum efficiency of particular demands for functionality and suitability. The capability of the modules to be transformed into compactly solid blocks is essential for the design concept in order to obtain an unobstructed and comfortable space – free of uselessness. Boxetti collection is a handmade product – the quality of materials as well as structural and technological solutions endues the collection to the extent of exclusiveness.

Charles Avery (born 1973) is a Scottish artist from Oban. He currently lives and works in London. Since 2004 Charles Avery has devoted his practice to the perpetual description of an imaginary island. Through drawings, sculptures and texts Avery describes the topology, cosmology and inhabitants of this fictional territory, from the market of the main town Onomatopoeia to the Eternal Forest where an unknown beast called the Noumenon is held to reside. The project can be read as a meditation on some of the central themes of philosophy, of art-making, and on the colonization and ownership of the world of ideas.