The animated adaptation of Richard Adam's groundbreaking novel Watership Down - still one of my favourite reads, I highly recommend it - introduced me to the harsh realities of death when I was well under double figures. Despite the deep feeling of terror and intense grief that it installed when I was a young un,… Continue reading Black Rabbit of Inlé
Congratulations Philip Jackson. You are the rightful owner of every breath that leaves my body today.
I haven't been able to stop thinking about the work of Italian contemporary sculptor Livio Scarpella since I first encountered it a few days ago. His ghostly sculptures, craved from stone (extremely hard to believe) and embedded with crystals have a living human delicacy about them. I feel that if I were to place a… Continue reading Veiled Ghosts
I don't know about you, but if I happened to see these Guardians of Time sculptures pop up in my town, I'd think the dark lord was on the rise, and hellfire would be engulfing the world before tea time. Manfred Kielnhofer is the art genius behind these five, sinister sculptures which are traveling the… Continue reading Guardians Of Time
I've featured conceptual porcelain sculptor Kate MacDowell before, but the other day I fell upon some work of hers which I hadn't seen before, and which needed to be featured. "I see each piece as a captured and preserved specimen, a painstaking record of endangered natural forms and a commentary on our own culpability." -… Continue reading Kate MacDowell Once More
Disturbed easily? Might not be such a great idea to continue looking at this post... Miura Etsuko is the master of sinister sculpture.
Jennifer Trask uses all sorts of bone - from rattlesnake ribs to antlers - to craft art works that can sometimes take up to eight months to complete.
I have a new artist obsession - Kevin Francis Gray. These figures on display aren't royalty, neither are they gods...the sculptures are actually depictions of people Gray encounters in London, mostly people in the holds of addiction or facing other real-world problems.
When I was younger and naive, whenever I heard the word 'porcelain' I would instantly think 'urgh, that boring stuff in my Grandparents cabinet? Why are you talking about that?' But in recent years I've encountered a phenomenal amount of sculptures creating exquisite fine art out of porcelain. Jessica LL Dalva is one of those… Continue reading Porcelain Woman
I highly recommend that you take a seat before looking through this post. The sculptures from Creatures From El are unlike anything you will have seen before.
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 