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Angel Ha Ceramics
"A decorative ball ...or a vase?"
Fanciful raised ceramic, hovers, lightly over the smooth surfaced sphere ... This peculiar ornamentation anticipates our curiosity, and compels our fingertips, to peel away that delicate layer and in doing so, revealing another pattern - openings and invitation ...
Link: .Grainne Morton
"Collecting obscure and miniature objects is the starting point for Grainne Morton's designs. Through experimentation, objects both formed and found are grouped in to 'collections' and housed in handmade boxes. The various materials used include pressed flowers, old buttons, shells, pebbles, sea glass, printed tin and words/graphics/print. To complement these found elements, handmade objects such as enamel work, miniature drawings and punched metal shim are added to complete the collections."
Link: Hazell Designs Books :: About.
Rachel Hazell is bookartist. She designs, writes, illustrates, prints, binds and exhibits book-related work. It's all handmade using age-old labour-intensive methods
She strives to produce the ultimate artist's book; one that combines form and function in the most simple way
Commissions and collaborations stimulate new approaches to the book. Rachel has worked with authors, galleries, businesses, councils and a fashion designer
Apart from making books, she also sings, travels, practices yoga, takes photographs and looks out for the worldwide possibilities of workshops, residencies and the chance to prove that everbody has a book inside them
Why the typetray logo? A lifetime love of order, repetition and containers, preceded work generated by this particular storage system at Camberwell College of Art, during the Bookart MA, and has continued to be an influential theme
Hazell Deisgns Books has a motto; READ MAKE LOVE BOOKS!
An unlimited edition, handpainted and handsewn - using a medieval long stitch. Perfect for tiny sketches on the beach or poems with few words. Each one is a slightly different hue of blue, and each contains a small surprise
Link: Maurizio Nannucci.LIGHT-WORD-LIGHT
Lara-Vinca Masini
"In all of his work Nannucci has expressed his intention; consistently involving the reaction between the medium and their respective diversity. He accentuates them by means of what defines his "visual attitude"; his method, based on rationality, makes his work, for as much as it is diverse and characterized by a continuous curiosity and a constant impulse toward experimentation, organize itself according to a consistent theme in which the almost continuous "transgressions" represent a sort of leitmotif full of suggestion and unexpected discoveries. Working since the 1970's, initially in the field of concrete and
perceptual structural research, which up until then also involved verbal research. At first he based his formation on scale relationships, while in the field of concrete poetry he created rhythmic verbal expressions using a typewriter: they were his "typograms". In the meantime, he participated in the research of electronic music with Pietro Grossi's musical phonology team of "S 2F m". Using computers he inserted, not musical programs, but "vocal" programs creating "sonorous poems" and "audioworks". This highlighted his image as an artist that "doesn't limit himself to producing works but searches for a simpler way to
create a larger diffusion of ideas". Because of this, also his way of "making art" moved ever further from the "specific", creating a closely woven network of relationships (by mean s of production of artistic books, discs, multiples, magazines, cards and photographs) with avant-garde artists from all over the world (who, like him, made the diffusion of ideas the center of attraction), attempting as he stated, "to widen the confines of the visible". His work was similar because of this to that of the fluxsus artists, making the matrix of his work consist more of "communication", understood in every sense, from the most direct to the most abstract and symbolic; acquiring alson an "entire nomenclature: the artists' sonorous, small, press, radioworks, multiples, artist's book..." gathered for the most part from the new media...con't" Also maurizionannucci.
Link: Art MoCo: "Adrift".
More blue in a box? Funny how these things happen … Except this time it is polymer clay in a wooden box, a piece called Adrift by Noah Nakell. This is from the Portable Disaster series, which plays on a common feeling of vulnerability in the face of something larger and more powerful than oneself. Fear, and the fragility that goes along with this disabler is something that we all go through, and this is so tidily symbolized by the tiny boat adrift on the rough, beautiful seas. Perhaps we can contain these in the boxes that Nakell has so thoughtfully provided. Would that we could pack it all up and kick it under the bed, or throw it away, when it all becomes too choppy, or when it feels like the quicksand will never release us.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Every person has experienced the feeling of fear and accompanying sensation of human fragility, whether in the form of something mundane like speaking in front of a large audience or something more horrifying, like the thought of a plane crashing. Visual metaphors for fear and insecurity play major roles in the creation of my work, including society's collective phobias, the intersection of modern life and nature, and on a more gut level: shelter, exposure, disaster, and defense. This work is presented with the idea that these fears can be faced calmly and embraced as part of our humanity.
-Noah Nakell
Link: Design*Sponge: more from cj o'neill.
"My fascination with pattern and surface texture has been important from an early age with repetition in surface and form being an overriding focus throughout my artistic life – an interest in hidden meanings, layers, secrets and treasures allows me to explore various trains of thought in my work. What is most important is that the pieces work on different levels – aesthetically, the work appeals to the beholder with simple, geometric forms, and organic patterns overlaid – but beyond the aesthetics lies the references to my influences, and often in commissioned pieces there are more layers of hidden meanings for the person involved. A feeling of calm, quiet nostalgia, a sense of belonging, contemplation and thoughtfulness; these are all important to my work.’ -cj"
Link: dedece - "Beautiful things of Life".
After a long search for the right frame, Harry found this victorian beauty in his brothers Hale's closet. Hale, a Philadephia painter, was given the frame by a friend. Cast in polyester resin, it takes on new life as a frame for a photograph. Its high relief brings deserved importance to everyday images.
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