Anselmo Swan, a resident of Vancouver, primarily works with oil on panel in his depictions of mundane objects as a reflection of contemporary culture. The isolation of objects and the attention to detail make the work as much about the shape and form of the object as it’s significance, whether great or small. Anselmo attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, received a scholarship from Malaspina Printmakers Society and continued his studies at Simon Fraser University. He has exhibited with galleries in Vancouver and Los Angeles and his work has been featured in local and national publications.

Store all your everyday essentials in your head. It’s easy to forget your keys, phone, wallet, watch, change and you can spend ages trying to remember where you last put them. With this realistic realistic hollowed out Skull Tidy you can organise all your essentials, and your shades on the bridge of the skull’s nose to make it look even more awesome. Buy here.

‘Sirous Namazi is born in 1970 and educated at the Malmö Art Academy. He is born in the town of Kerman, Iran, but came to Sweden already as 13 years old. His dual nationality plays a certain role in his works, and is to some extent reflected in his interest in questions of identity, origins, communication, and space. His works are characterised by a multitude of expressions and he moves, seemingly without effort, between different genres. Namazi’s aesthetics revolves around formal, painterly and minimalist problems-and an emphasis is equally placed upon the process behind a work, as much as the final result.’ (via Galerie Nordenhake)

Talented UK artist David Walker created these beautiful vibrant female portraits. No stencils, No brushes, just David and his spray cans.

‘Born 1971, Jiang An, Sichuan, China, Liao Yibai lives and works in Beijing and Chongqing, China. The series Fake Antiques, Fake Evidence, and Legends pokes fun at China’s history of power struggles, misinformation and attempts to re-write its own past. Each piece is hand-welded and placed upon a pseudo-antique pedestal, claiming a position of authenticity that alludes to the thriving fake antique industry in China. Many of the works are replications of vases and heirlooms dating back to the Ming, Qing and Yuan dynasties. Yibai then gives them a clever modern twist by adding details like nuclear clouds, swine flu viruses and acid rain.” (via Animal)

Bahar Yurukoglu <-- Born in Washington, District of Columbia; Education- (2011) MFA, Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts; (2003) BFA, Photography; School of Visual Arts, New York, New York.

” Artists ought to have the right to offend…I’ve always been interested in strong, difficult content– capable of arousing real misunderstandings.” – Mark Greenwold

Check out the macabre art of Paris-based Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov.

Each piece took half an hour to make and I use approximately 1,200 matchsticks for both pieces. More samples of my work can be seen here.