On earlier posts I have done, I have introduced you to the Polish designer Boguslaw Sliwinski who encourages people to play with their food. Sliwinski had created a series of “Toy plates”- changing meals into modes of transport, as well as “Face On” whereby he turned meals into hairstyles. Now I introduce you to…

Located at Barcelona's Poblenou Cemetery, this magnificent sculpture, titled Kiss of Death (El Petó de la Mort in Catalan and El Beso de la Muerte in Spanish), depicts death (in the form of a winged skeleton) planting a kiss on a young man's forehead. According to the story, in 1930, the Llaudet family was mourning the death of their son and created this…

Jackie O Wearing Burberry Sunglasses

Swedish Photographer and artist Philip Karlberg took on the challenge of arranging over a thousand wooden pegs on several boards known as “pin art” whereby each of the pegs-in-holes when pieced together shows several famous faces wearing…

We were delighted to have stumbled upon the amazing work of Red Hong. Red is what you might like to call an artist-architect. She likes to paint, but not with a paintbrush. 

This portrait is made up of hundreds of individual coffee stain rings, many of them broken and imperfect, forming a this portrait. The project took Red Hong about 12 hours to complete.…

When it comes to sewing, I have absolutely no idea on what takes place and even how it does so, so don’t take any advice from me. The person that I would turn to is Maurizio Anzeri, most well-known for his “hair sculptures” is also a talented sewer. He makes colourful embroidery on vintage photographs, bringing them to life.…

I have never really been a ballerina fan, but the work of Jose Romussi a Chilean mixed media artist has most definitely turned me into a fan. He makes use of vintage black and white photographs of ballerinas and brings them to life through embroidering colourful thread over the costumes. A playful and new way of using mixed media he creates astounding…

 If you are a Bansky fan this one is for you. Nick Stern has recreated some of the famous graffiti artist's most well-known and controversial works using real people. The photo series entitled You Are Not Bansky includes eight separate shots of impeccably costumed characters posing with carefully placed props against specific backdrops that echo the works of Banksy.

The…

A technique called “drawing with an eyelash” is used by artist Mel Kadel on her floral, dropped and striped patterns and strange characters of her images. She uses ancient papers, small pens, cotton swabs and glue. Kadel grew up in Pennsylvania suburbs and graduated from Moore College of Art and Design in 1997, she now resides and works in Los Angeles…

Cyclops by Dan Hillier

I am so excited for the latest exhibition,"The Other World" at the In Toto Gallery. The exhibition will run from 31st of May 2012 - 5th of July 2012. 

Collaborating with Otto De Jager, In Toto Gallery presents a thought provoking exhibition which is more of a sensory…

Adam Martinakis is a digital artist as well as an interior designer and his work is out of this world! He mainly works on 3D through creating digital environments and scenes that are far from normal.

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Plain strainer you say? Look closely … Spanish artist Isaac Cordal sculpted faces onto metal cooking strainers, which cast beautiful shadows. Brilliant !!!...................................................…

Seeing that art is making headline news lately, you might not want to miss the awe-inspiring exhibition at the newly-opened Wits Art Museum (WAM) in Braamfontein...it features African art at its best,…

Annie Vought has set to design boom images of her newly developed pieces for her existent collection of handwritten, cut-out correspondence. the Oakland, California residing artist considered the countless email, SMS, instant messages and twitter posts received in her life, and…

Personally, I have an absolute, and I mean absolute fascination with eyes and lips. Not only do I feel that they are an amazing and sensual aspect to any women, but when it comes to the creative process of art, design or photography, one can literally do anything with them. For example, Rasmus Mogensen’s lip series…totally Wow! Since the age of 8, Mongensen’s dream of becoming…

Schutz's exhibition "Piano in the Rain" features her signature tropes of excess, taboo and mayhem, yet this time with a layer of sadness underneath. You get the sense her characters, though ultimately grotesque, are trying to connect, to impress, to perform,…

"When I create my images, it’s important that there is an obvious human touch behind them, a genuine feeling of craftsmanship to the picture. That is probably why I mix different techniques so freely and use everything from ink and gouache to pencil and paper…

I just discovered the work of Swedish illustrator/paper artist Hanna Albrektson, and I must say that I really enjoyed looking through her portfolio. Especially striking are her beautiful drawings over photographs and her shoes and bags made from paper. She is very talented and technical and is always open to receiving new types of…

Celebrating 21 years of the print medium (and beautifully curated at JAG), Newtown's Artist Proof Studio showcases the talents of local artists and collaborations over the last 2 decades. From the likes of Kentridge and Catherine to astoundingly fresh current student work, this is one of the finest exhibits I've seen in recent years - well worth a visit...…

The MASP Art School in São Paulo created a this brilliant ad campaign. They took Dali, Van Gogh and Picasso, dissected them and illustrated their insides in the same style as their famous artwork.…

Most days when we write, we use the body as a drawing tool, Our wrist guides our hands as our mind tells our hands to grip what we are holding. But American performance artist Tony Orrico does things quite differently, he uses his whole, and I mean whole body to create his art pieces which are as much of a performance as it is a…