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Artist: Pete Dungey

I am a graduating Graphic Design student at the University of Brighton working for print, installation and web.

Currently available for collaborations, commissions and work placements.

Please get in touch for further information, to see more work or just to say hello.

info@petedungey.com

(via petedungey.com)

On Pothole Gardens:

“It began as part of a project called ‘subvert the familiar’,” says the graphic design student. “I wanted to do something that would grab attention but also raise awareness of an issue, and so the project was born. I have been planting the gardens for about a fortnight now and see it as an ongoing thing.”

“Potholes are a big problem that could be eradicated quite simply. Hopefully it’s something that grabs attention and raises awareness although I wouldn’t call myself a renegade cyclist.”

Pete currently works alone but he’s hoping other people will follow his example. If you do, he’s asking you to take a snap and email it to him via his website.

(via guardian.uk.com)

WS: http://www.petedungey.com/

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Artist: Jack Shadbolt

Jack Leonard Shadbolt, artist, teacher, author, poet (b at Shoeburyness, Eng 4 Feb 1909; d at Burnaby, BC 22 Nov 1998). Best known as a painter and draftsman, he wrote 3 books and many articles and through his teaching profoundly influenced art and artists in BC and across Canada. He moved to British Columbia in 1912.

Jack Shadbolt studied at the Art Students’ League in New York City (1948) and in London (1937) and Paris (1938). After teaching art to children in BC between 1929 and 1937, he joined the Vancouver School of Art. He served in WWII 1942-45, including 1944-45 with the Canadian War Artist establishment, and then returned to the school, where he was head of painting and drawing until 1966. He was an influential teacher and adviser across Canada and the US, having conducted workshops (he was the first artist to do so at the EMMA LAKE ARTISTS’ WORKSHOPS in 1955) and juried exhibitions throughout North America. Some 70 solo exhibitions of Jack Shadbolt’s work were mounted and his many major international exhibitions included the Venice Biennale XXVIII and 4 major retrospective exhibitions at the VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, the BC Museum of Anthropology, the NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA and the Glenbow Museum.

An extraordinarily prolific artist, Jack Shadbolt worked in large series (or suites) which derived from his personal experiences of nature and Native art in BC, his many travels in Europe and his recognition of calligraphy and op-art; in paint slashes and in incisive lines, in butterflies and totem poles, in insect life and ritual brides, in poetry and architecture. Everything was transformed by his emotions as much as by his intellect. As well as painting many murals (Edmonton International Airport, the NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE and the former CBC building), he did stage, ballet and costume designs and theatre posters. Jack Shadbolt also authored In Search of Form (1968), Mind’s I (1973) and Act of Art (1981). Until his death, he continued to have an enormous output, eg, a 3-dimensional plywood relief created for the MacMillan Bloedel building in Vancouver (1987).

(via thecanadianencyclopedia.com)

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Photographer: Yell Saccani

I’ve been doing pics for about 2 years. I’m self-taught. All my life i’ve worked in restaurants and couldn’t keep a job for more than a year. The boredom killed me. 2 years ago i wanted to learn graphic design. i was very curious about photoshop and my teacher was busy teaching the old freehand. I wanted to alter pictures and i didn’t know anything about photography. My teacher told me “what you want to do is shit, you will never do money from this. There’s no way somebody sane will care for this crap.”

I made my first pic called scream (the oldest one on flickr). My teacher laughed, but i started to upload the pics on flickr. People surprisingly started to comment, and i started to express my self and to explore ps and my limits as an artist.

I have a friend, a great guy that i have never met in real life. He was the first one to really believe in me, and it’s been like that since then. I get support, but only on the internet.

I explore my limits with my body everyday and i’m getting comfortable with nudes, something that was unthinkable for me sometime ago. For a good pic i will do everything i possibly can.

(via yellsaccani.com)

WS: http://www.yellsaccani.com

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Artist: Lichiban

ARTIST STATEMENT
Situated at the intersection of pop surrealism and fantasy art, though defying limitations, LICHIBAN’s work explores the concept of “shapeshifting” as a symbolic representation of the human potential to transform into other entities through the use of the imagination. Visionary and subversive, playful and esoteric, her body of work creates a new hybrid taxonomy that merges human with animal, man with machine, terrestrial with outer space creatures. Her works convey a sense of longing and magnetism intended to invite the spectators to experience themselves as imaginary characters in a world of galactic feline superheroes, time-traveling samurais and tribal warriors, gods and goddesses, nature spirits, shapeshifting mystics, tricksters, outsiders, galactic explorers or iconic pop figures.

Her subjects are the architects of a larger mythological universe she aims to manifest through the use of various media ranging from her signature studio work on wood, murals, prints, videos or animations. She has taken on the challenge to create a unique visual language that is iconic and charged with metaphysical meaning drawing inspiration from dream memories, elements of tribal & religious art & writings, comics & animations, symbolism, surrealism, erotic illustration and street art. Her passion for music, erotica and the mystical sciences reflects vividly in her work.

She has exhibited her work in New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Minneapolis, and in Wilmington and has been leaving her traces around at various live art events in New York City. She has been featured in Younity’s HEART & SOUL Book, Brooklyn Community Access TV, CLAM Magazine, TRACE Magazine blog, Liberating Style Magazine, PEP! Magazine blog, Readconvention, Limite Magazine, Leisure LAB, Wishtank, Dope Swan, and Boys & Clothes Magazine, among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

HER STORY// BIO
LICHIBAN is a Brooklyn-based self-taught visual artist, illustrator, art director, curator, and full time creative hustler. She was born in a border city in Hungary and from early on she acquired a fascination with borders, limits and ambiguous dividing lines; her experiences on the margins of cities, countries and subcultures eventually formed into a semi-consistent life philosophy, which continues to inspire her creative development. Her images draw inspirations from a wide range of extraordinary life experiences and impressions, such as her childhood memories of folktales, comic books and animations, her studies in Sufism & Buddhist Tantrism, her travels to war-torn countries (Bosnia, Kashmir, Eastern Turkey), her volunteer work with refugees and trauma victims and from meeting exceptional people. Her experiences led her to a deep appreciation for people and their stories, which expresses itself best in her love for faces.Most recently, she has been working on developing a number of feline superheroes to visually narrate her mystical mythology. She has exhibited her work in New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Minneapolis, and in Wilmington and has been leaving her trace around at various live art events in New York City. She has been featured in Younity’s HEART & SOUL Book, Brooklyn Community Access TV, CLAM Magazine, TRACE Magazine blog, Liberating Style Magazine, PEP! Magazine blog, Leisure LAB, Wishtank, Dope Swan, Readconvention, Limite Magazine and Boys & Clothes Magazine, among others.

WS: http://www.lichiban.net

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Artist: Nimit Malavia

I was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. I am a graduate of Sheridan ITAL’s BAA- Illustration program and am now residing in Toronto, Ontario.

With my work I am constantly trying to create images that appear honest and true to who I am. I hope that through my work I am able to grow and gain a better understanding of the world around me, one that I hope to share with others.

WS: http://www.nimitmalavia.com

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Photographer: Wendy Bevan

Within the world of fashion photography, Wendy Bevan is an unexpected unique curiosity. Her rich and painterly works of art draw us into a world of ambiguity and uneasy narratives. Perusing her portfolio, one is led through a labyrinth of antique film sets in which dramatic silent performances are taking place, with disconcertingly beautiful femme fatales acting out their memories, bittersweet feelings and repressed emotions.

Bevan has worked for many leading magazines. Publications include; Russian Vogue, Italian Marie Claire, Harpers Bazaar, Muse, Financial Times: How To Spend It, The Independent, The Observer, Self Service, Big, 10, Lula, Nylon, V Magazine, Qvest, POP Magazine, I-D, Grey and online Magazine TEST. Through these commissions she has worked with a number of top Fashion Directors and Stylists, namely Simon Robins, Katie Felstead, Fran Burns, and Jacob K.

WS: http://www.wendybevan.com

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Artist: Franz von Stuck

Franz Stuck (February 24, 1863 - August 30, 1928) was a German symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect.

Stuck was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria. From an early age he displayed an affinity for drawing and caricature. To begin his artistic education in 1878 he went to Munich, where he would settle for life. From 1881 to 1885 Stuck attended the Munich Academy.

He first made a name with cartoons for Fliegende Blätter, and vignette designs for programmes and book decoration…. In 1892 Stuck co-founded the Munich Secession, and also executed his first sculpture, Athlete. The following year he won further acclaim with the critical and public success of what is now his most famous work, The Sin. Also in 1893, Stuck was awarded a gold medal for painting at the Chicago World’s Fair and was appointed to a royal professorship. In 1895 he began teaching painting at the Munich Academy.

Having attained a high degree of fame by this time, Stuck was elevated to the aristocracy on December 9, 1905 and would receive further public honours from around Europe during the remainder of his life. Even as new trends in art left Stuck behind, he continued to be highly respected among young artists in his capacity as professor at the Munich Academy. Notable students of his over the years include Paul Klee, Hans Purrmann, Wassily Kandinsky, and Josef Albers.

….Stuck’s subject matter was primarily drawn from mythology, inspired by the work of Arnold Böcklin. Large, heavy forms dominate most of his paintings and point toward his proclivities for sculpture. His seductive female nudes, in the role of the femme fatale, are a prime example of popular Symbolist content. Stuck paid close attention to the frames for his paintings and generally designed them himself with such careful use of panels, gilt carving and inscriptions that the frames must be taken as an integral part of the overall piece.

(via Wiki)

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Artist: Pedro Matos

Name: Pedro Matos
Born: 1989, Santarem, Portugal
Lives: Lisbon, Portugal
Education: BFA Painting - Ar.Co Lisboa (currently)

Matos is equally interested in representing the abandoned surfaces often found in the run down urban areas where his subjects live. While his work is influenced by the works of the old masters, the subjects which once were religious figures are now “downtrodden, unnoticed, unappreciated and forgotten.”

(via artistaday.com)

WS: http://pedromatos.org

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Artist: Ilya Zomb

In the paintings of Russian-born artist Ilya Zomb, images of ballerinas, elephants, and gigantic fruits appear as if out of a dream, but the artist says it’s the everyday life in New York, where he lives, that inspires his flights of fancy.

(via Caldwell Snyder Gallery)

The Russian-born, New York-based artist Ilya Zomb wants viewers to look at his “paintings as you would travel to some exotic country and stare in amazement at the strange new world.” His October show at Caldwell Snyder Gallery explored the outer reaches of realism, where loving observation of everyday things blends seamlessly with elements of fantasy. 

(Review, Ilya Zomb, American Arts Quarterly, Volume 27, number 1. via Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center)

Saturday’s Stumble is Russian born painter Ilya Zomb.  Zomb, who currently lives and works in New York, studied at the Odessa State Art College and the Odessa Art School between 1971 and 1979, majoring in fine arts.

Like Degas, Zomb is fascinated by the forms of ballet dancers which feature heavily in his works. Unlike Degas, Zomb’s paintings have more elements of fantasy. Ballerinas interact with animals and objects from the natural world, creating a dream-like quality that make them curiously unique.

Zomb’s paintings have been exhibited in group and solo shows across the United States and his work is in the permanent collection at the Knoxville Fine Arts Museum. As well, his work has been featured in numerous publications including Entree Magazine, The New York Observer, The Week, and others.

(via artfixx)

WS: http://www.zombart.com

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Artist: Francisco Goya y Lucientes

March 30, 1746 – April 16, 1828 

An influential Spanish master, Goya was known for his graphic depictions of war and expression of inner turmoil….

Goya was part of the era of Romanticism, in the Age of Enlightenment. Like many of his contemporaries, he was influenced by the French Revolution. In 1792, the artist went deaf and isolated himself, painting his renowned series the Caprichos; a scathing collection of 80 works criticizing culture and society of the time. He also painted his deeply personal series of pictures, Fantasy and Invention and Courtyard with Lunatics at this time. He emerged from these dark visions at the turn the century, creating his masterpieces, La Maja desnuda (The Nude Maja) and La Maja Vestida (The Clothed Maja). La Maja Desnuda is considered the first life-sized nude portrait of a female, without an allegorical or mythological context.

Published posthumously, Goya executed a series of etchings in 1810 showing the horrors of war, The Disasters of War, while working for the French court. Among these works he painted more dark inner visions, The Black Paintings, which includes his famous Saturn Devouring His Sons. The painter’s highly personal creations would go on to influence the great painters of the 19th and 20th Centuries, with a vast, profound impact on culture to this very day. He spent his last days in Bordeaux, Paris; dying at the age of 82.

(via Virtual Uffizi)

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Artist: Alberto Mancini

Alberto Mancini (1960- ) is from the small town of Atina, located in the mountains of southern Italy where his family has lived for 400 years. His father, a portrait photographer, taught Mancini to draw at a very young age, and encouraged him to experiment with a variety of media. Mancini had his first art exhibition at the age of 15. The work displayed was of figures and landscapes in oil.

In 1973, Mancini began his studies in architecture at the University of Architecture in Venice, the most influential in Europe. While in Venice, he was encouraged in his painting by some of the most important Italian intellectuals and artists. At this time, he began to develop a particular style and technique that would be recognized as “rigorous, without colorful exaggeration and focused on imagined signs.”

His painting, at this time, was devoted to the exploration of nature and the nature of things. Mancini also worked in theater design while in Venice. He exhibited his work in several individual and group show and began earning recognition for his unusual and eloquent style and subject material. In 1986, he earned his degree in architecture, along with many academic awards for his exceptional work.

After graduation, Mancini returned to the mountains of southern Italy to begin a family and to practice architecture. He also continued to paint and to accrue critical attention and prestigious awards including the “Leon d’Oro Assessorato alla Cultura.” In 1997, his work was exhibited in what was called “the most important exhibition ever organized in the Lazio region [near Rome].”

Mancini has been described as both poet and painter. The Italian poet and essayist Alfonso Cardamone said “Mancini masters his technique…he is modern because he meticulously deconstructs images…he goes beyond every post-modernism and is never influenced by banality and self-complacent insignificance.”

(via The Morrison Gallery)

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Artist: Jarod Charzewski

My art examines landscapes and people, man-made structures among nature, the sometimes static, often fluid designs that rise from dual environments. I harness childhood sensibilities: sights and smells, sounds, memories, feelings of rural surroundings and urban streets. I fuel my art with visuals of seasons, Prairie landscapes and recreate aesthetics that investigate mankind’s evolving influence. Artistically I try to capture the essence of mist in the Carmanah Valley rainforest, the dust of Alberta’s Badlands, and in turn release an ephemeral sensation of site-specific experiences.

Space motivates my concept. The visual characteristics of bridges and railroad tracks, tunnels, urban communities at large, cast against the strength of natural landscapes, reflect the relationship between viewer and the work. I enhance this relationship through accessible installations, monuments to nature, to man, to our cohabitation. The art reveals the mystery of individual perceptions and develops a platform where ideas gain scope. The art conducts experiments. It approaches common occurrences, heeds disparate interests, and injects personal stance. I express these experiments through multi-media sculpture. I use interpretation. I use light, acoustics, and kinetic energy.

Everything needs space. My work reflects nature’s response to man, and mankind’s impact on landscapes. The result is a lens through which to see our world.

WS: http://www.jarodcharzewski.com

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Artist: Celëne

Celëne was born and raised in Irwin, PA. She comes from a family of talented artists (her Grandfather Rose was due to start working for Walt Disney Studios but would be drafted into the second World War). As a child she was attracted to drawing at an early age, her career in art definitely started with the crayon. Being an only child, boredom and the natural beauty of her surroundings would be the fuel for her creativity. Being raised in a traditional Catholic home, Celëne would be strongly attracted to images of the afterlife.

Celëne would continue to draw throughout her upbringing, at one point be fascinated with the concept of plastic surgery. She would draw before and after images, most of them being horribly mutilated by the knife, or pencil in this case.

During high school Celëne would start to gain notoriety upon campus for her work painting album covers on jackets of the most “hardcore” punks at school. Art would become her solace and connection to other people.

Celëne would next enter the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where she  would work on honing her craft for oil painting, particularly paying close attention to the face. They say that the eyes are the window to the soul, in Celëne’s work they literally pull the viewer into the painting. There is no escaping the emotion that she is able to express.

Upon graduating the Art Institute with an Associates Degree in Visual Communications, Celëne would be forever moved while visiting the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Here she saw first hand the works of the European masters Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.  Seeing these works of art would inspire Celëne to head west to Southern California to focus on furthering her career as an artist. It would be here that she would attract the most attention. Her art would appear at numerous art shows, openings and galleries. She would grace the cover of Fahrenheit magazine as well as being selected by the Uptown Partnership to have a permanent exhibit in her adopted hometown of San Diego, Ca. Celëne would also enjoy her first solo art show at the Playa Gallery with the series “Seasonal Disorder”.

Celëne holds true to everything that her paintings represent, she credits her achievements to the support of her family and friend.

WS: http://www.celeneart.com

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Photographer: Clark Little

Clark Little was born in Napa, California in 1968. Two years later, a move to the North Shore of Oahu (Hawaii) dramatically changed his future. In the 80’s and 90’s he made his name as a pioneer of surfing at the Waimea Bay shorebreak. Clark had a unique talent for taking off on hopeless closeout shorebreak waves and surviving in one piece.

In 2007, Clark discovered his ability and passion to capture the extraordinary beauty of the shorebreak when his wife asked him for a picture of the ocean to decorate a bedroom wall. With the confidence of an experienced surfer, Clark jumped in the ocean, and started snapping away, recording the beauty and power of Hawaiian waves. “Clark’s view” is a unique and often dangerous perspective of waves from the inside out, captured in photos for all to enjoy from the safety of dry land.

Clark uses Water Housings Hawaii custom-made underwater housings by Taro Pascual.

WS: clarklittlephotography.com

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Artist: Natalie Shau

Natalie Shau is illustrator and photographer from Lithuania (Vilnius). She works mainly in digital media and Natalie’s works are mixture of her photography, digital painting and 3D elements. She enjoys creating surreal and strange creatures, fragile and powerful at the same time. Natalie’s style was influenced a lot by religious imagery, fairytales illustrations classic horror literature and Russian classic literature such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol etc.

Natalie Shau constantly keeps working on her own personal artwork and exhibitions, but also enjoys creating illustrations for music bands, fashion designers and writers. Her illustrations for Lydia Courteille jewelry campaign were published in french VOGUE magazine. Natalie’s client list consists of many music and advertisement labels such as: Island Def Jam, Ogilvy & Mather, Sony BMG, Century Media, Nuclear Blast, Trisol etc.

WS: http://natalieshau.carbonmade.com

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