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 Four new large-scale murals have been commissioned to transform Thamesmead’s network of canal underpasses into colourful and vibrant spaces for everyone to enjoy. Five artists, including one local young designer, have come together during lockdown to create the murals at eight underpasses that connect Thamesmead’s four-mile network of picturesque canals.
Print and textile designer Paige Denham, who has lived in Thamesmead all her life, won a design competition held by Peabody, in partnership with Moniker Projects, as part of its Thamesmead Canal Mural...
Lisa Baker
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THE SUNAE ARTWORK OF NAOSHI
A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place or thing with happy personal associations: this is the definition of nostalgia and also a great entry point into understanding the inspiration for and work of Naoshi. After meeting the famed Japanese Illustrator Kin Shiotani in 2004, Naoshi decided to devote her life to art. She told us how her artistic career began, “When I found a Sunae (Sunae is a technique originally from Japan that means “sand art”) DIY kit at a store, I felt very nostalgic because I played with colored...
Contemporary Creative Practice Magazine
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THE DISTINCTLY HUMAN AND VIVID WORK OF AMAIA GOMEZ MARZABAL
“My inspiration is the image itself. I like to tell a story with my art and let the viewer thinking about the message of the image,” says Amaia Gomez Marzabal of her paintings, “Through the ideas of repetition and chaos, I like to speak about human behaviors: what we repeat unconsciously and what we try to change from the social patterns we have learned since childhood.” There is something inherently human and messy and true about seeing an image that feels so real but which at the same time edges into the surreal like one sees in...
Contemporary Creative Practice Magazine
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The Albanian painter, Orion Shima, is famous for his many exhibitions in Italy, Greece, Germany, US, etc.
The painting of Martin Stommel have also appeared in prestigious European exhibitions since back in 2000.
Art curator, Edison Çeraj, describes their work as an entrenchment of the mythological sensibility of man's relationship with nature”.
“To say more metaphorically, let’s say that here we have two different flows which unite in a quest to the sea”, writes Çeraj.
“They don’t choose nature as a single space or background, but nature has the same importance with the...
Gallery70
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Spriha is a narrative mixed media artist bringing organic forms and textures into her body of work. She uses iconic symbolism to exemplify concepts close to her heart that are influenced by personal, societal and environmental changes. She is fearless in her use of colors and majority of her compositions are built around found objects. The almost three dimensional pieces of her work suggest that art has no boundaries and being limitless in nature the colors and forms flow from one space to another. This talent will be one of our featured Artists for the Invitational Art Exhibition beginning...
Truffle Art House
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ONE WOMAN’S JUNK, THE WORLD’S TREASURE
Hong Kong has, for centuries existed as a city on the precipice of both the East and West, a threshold between worlds, and like her place of birth, Andree Kong was raised on the edge and in the middle of many things at once. Born into a bilingual family, Andree was raised to appreciate the values and art forms from two very distinct cultures. With a mind and a home full of such life and juxtaposition, it was only a matter of time before she started practicing art. She tells us “the countless cultural contrasts that I encountered throughout my life...
Contemporary Creative Practice Magazine
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This year's Kensington + Chelsea Art Week (KCAW) is extended to eleven days and takes place 1-11 October 2020. The public art festivities have been developed with community consultation, with a diverse programme of events, talks, highlights, installations and exhibits taking place throughout the Royal Borough.
KCAW will present over a hundred participants, including both emerging and world-class institutions and cultural practitioners, to celebrate the artistic richness of the Borough. This year’s dynamic calendar of events will be the most extensive edition of KCAW to date. The...
Lisa Baker
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"The butterfly does not count the months,
but the moments,
therefore she gets enough time ”
(Tagore)
The first question that usually arises for a group exhibition is what brings the authors together? Or what connects the artworks to each other?
We are dealing with a normal question where, in addition to seeing and observing the works separately, one by one, we search a common message which brought them together and which they intend to convey.
More or less, starting from the middle of the XX-thcentury, this is how group exhibitions work. Certain...
Gallery70
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We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won AAP Magazine #12: B&W
For this 12th edition of AAP Magazine, we received a record number of submissions from all over the world. The winning photographers come from 11 different countries and 4 continents.
Their work reflect the large variety black and white photography can offer. Documentary, portrait, travel, street, wildlife, abstract and fine art are all represented in the winning portfolios.
Regardless of the genre of photography, the selected projects all have different approaches to the...
All About Photo
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Newsletter: July 2020
Cubitt presents No Real Closure, a programme curated by Cubitt’s Curatorial Fellows 2020-21: Languid Hands.
No Real Closure is a platform for experimentation and development of black artistic practice across exhibitions, moving image, text, performance and public programming. Absent is the disproportionate emphasis on surface-level survey style programmes and representational focus: when we gather, we do so to manifest collaboration, exchange, dialogue, relationships – a sum greater than its individual parts.
In a world of pandemics and...
Cubitt
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What is essential? The coronavirus-related lockdowns forced everyone to reconsider priorities and look within. Amid the uncertainty, the primary role of culture has proved to be the maintenance of social cohesion and individual well-being. While some critics lamented loss of access to cultural institutions and public events, others focused on renewed appreciation for the arts online. What would quarantine be like without television, literature, music, or other art forms? The options are too dire to consider! Creative communities in Germany demanded emergency relief funding and the artists in...
Sergey Konstantinov
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THE BODY POSITIVE ARTWORK OF HILDOS
In the 1970s every Saturday morning, the Lebanese American University offered art classes for kids. Starting when she was seven, Hildos took these classes and fell in love with experimentation and creativity in art. This weekend program left such an impact on her that, after high school, Hildos enrolled in the same University where these classes had taken place a decade before to study Fine Arts with a minor in Art Education and Graphic Design. Although she was in the same place as she had been in her youth, her art had changed and...
Contemporary Creative Practice Magazine
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