Alison Jackson is a contemporary artist who explores the cult of celebrity – an extraordinary phenomenon of our age made possible by the wide availability of photographic images in film, press, TV, internet and the interest in publicity. Jackson makes convincingly realistic work about celebrities doing things in private using lookalikes. Likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable. She creates scenarios we have all imagined but never seen – the hot images the media can’t get. Jackson raises questions about whether we can believe what we see when we live in a mediated world of screens, imagery and internet. She comments on our voyeurism, on the power and seductive nature of imagery, and on our need to believe. Her work has established wide respect for her as an incisive, funny and thought-provoking commentator on the burgeoning phenomenon of contemporary celebrity culture. Alison works across all media and arts platforms in TV, Press, Internet, books, some merchandising and is widely exhibited in galleries and museums attracting extensive interest in the press and on TV. Her images themselves have become just as much a part of popular culture as images of the real celebrities.

The installation consists of hundreds of Chinese scissors suspended from the ceiling, pointing downwards. The hovering, massive cloud of scissors alludes to distant fear, looming violence and worrisome uncertainty. The performer sits beneath the countless sharp blades of the scissors, and performs an on-going simple task of mending. Link here.

Check out this christmas tree made from 5,000 donated ceramic dishes and cups in Hasselt, Belgium. Link here.

Absolutely amazing sculptures and colossal art installations by Germany-based artist Sonja Vordermaier. Love it.

The Bicentennial Civic Center will be the first administrative complex to have been designed specifically for that end by the Province of Córdoba, Argentina. It is located on the edge of the historic center of the city, on a lot that used to belong to the railway tracks. One of its sides, measuring more than 700 meters, was adjacent to the River Suquia, and constituted a physical barrier drastically separating the neighborhoods on both sides of the river. This new urban operation will help diminish the image of the river as backyard of the city, thus transforming the whole sector into a new downtown front. (Architects: Lucio Morini + GGMPU Arquitectos)

I’m mysteriously drawn to these porcelain dishes by Mary O’Malley. After recieving her BFA in ceramics from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Mary O’Malley now lives in New York where she creates her work out of a barn on the south shore of Long Island.

Have a peek into the portfolio of Hannah Rhodes, a talented designer and illustrator based in Brighton, UK.

Chattanooga, Tennessee-based artist Matthew Dutton does some really intriguing sculptures. Much more to see at his website. Get on with it.

” I admit that I AM a quitter. I quit dancing. I quit sports. I quit smoking. I quit my job. But the one thing I will never quit is art. You would have to kill me first. Even then, I’ll still make a pretty dazzling, bloody impression on the pavement!” – Sheridan Johns

David Oliveira <-- (1980, Lisbon) Degree in Sculpture and a postgraduate degree in Artistic Anatomy at the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon; Won the 1st prize for sculpture Young Creators of Aveiro 2009, premium revelation D. Fernando in 2010, and is one of those selected for the Young Creators Lisbon 2011. Represented by Gallery 111 in Portugal. Currently developing artistic projects in Portugal, Spain, UK and Turkey.