UK artist Pery Burge creates images of swirling paint, oil and glitter, allowing her ingredients to form and flow naturally as she documents them in motion. Straddling science and nature, each image is a macro shot of bigger picture capturing naturally-formed beauty unseen by the naked eye.
'So Many Sub-Genres', 2009 Acrylic on Aluminium 125 x 120 cm
Super sweet still life paintings by Melbourne-based artist Dane Lovett, have a young, fun quality not unusually attributed to this style of painting. 2011 was a big year for Lovett, after being featured in RUSSH magazine’s art issue, the artist was invited to exhibit his first solo show, ‘Peach on Peach’, at Colette in Paris. He was also awarded the Australia Council Tokyo Studio residency. (more…)
Trippy collage art by Japanese New York-based artist Hisham Akira Bharoocha. (more…)
White-blonde hair, argent teeth and orange-sprayed flesh, plucked and stuffed, is the ideal of feminine beauty offered by the Playboy magazine of today. It seems hard to imagine that Playboy was once the chosen reading material of the debonair man of the 50s and 60s, and a publication that attracted the contribution of respected writers and artists – and the naked bodies of women of natural, individual beauty. (more…)
For a theatre conceptualised by both artists and architects, constructed of Italian marble, white granite and oak paneling, it is not suprising that a red velvet stage curtain would not suffice. In 2010 Californian textile-artist Pae White was commissioned, following an international competition, to design a closing screen for the Oslo Opera House. The result: ‘Metafoil’, a mind-bending tapestry, measuring 23 metres by 11 metres, woven by a digital loom, programmed with scanned images of crumpled aluminum. Utilising the captive gaze of the audience, what appears to be a wall of metal is actually a flat surface of tightly woven cotton, wool and polyester fibres. (more…)
acrylic on canvas. 25x20 cm. 2010
Beautiful paintings by Spanish, Berlin-based artist Yago Hortal (b.1983). (more…)
Aqueous Chroma
Leif Podhajsky is a Melbourne-based digital artist and Creative Director. His work explores “themes of connectedness, the relevance of nature and the psychedelic or altered experience”. We hope to see his work as prints some day! (more…)