By Adam Doyle from UK
By Matt Thomas from London
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| Big Willy ♥ Babykins |
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By Becca Thorne from UK
By Paul Shinn from London
By Sue Kieper
29 Apr 2011
28 Apr 2011
Artist 86: Amy Goh
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The Birth of Oedipus |
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| erasure |
"on tonight's still night
moon gapes like cat's eye gleaming
dangerously low
in corners of hearts
shadows bury like earthworms
through tunnels clammed close
sleepless and restless
I sing through solitude's shell
songs of phantom seas"
moon gapes like cat's eye gleaming
dangerously low
in corners of hearts
shadows bury like earthworms
through tunnels clammed close
sleepless and restless
I sing through solitude's shell
songs of phantom seas"
A new artist feature now on the fantastic Amy Goh. She is not just an illustrator, poet and photographer but the guardian of a whole working method and concept so intertwined, that to divorce her work from her way of seeing things, would be to fail to understand it. She has developed a great style, which uses detailed almost diorama like scenes that overflow with her imagination and musings. Her work has a technical skill and grace but her strength lies in her ability to convey her uncompromising and raw imagination without letting it break down or become diluted. She simply vents into the paper and her work is as intricate as it is dark. She has the same hints of Victoriana that run through the work of artists such as Mark Ryden though her work has a different path and she uses this visual language to great effect when creating her images. The viewer is at once drawn in and diverted, as if taken into a maze where the initial subject dissolves into the tableaux. It is a really strong way of working to incorporate her illustration into her intense artistic practice and she does well to give it the distinctiveness and craft that it needs to stand up for her as an artist and not a concept.
Who are you:
Amy Goh.
What do you do:
I am a English Major and East Asian Studies + German literature minor at Mcgill, but I freelance as an artist on the side. I'm also working on the set design for a video game in the style of a Victorian paper puppet theatre this summer.
How did you start:
I actually started drawing again pretty recently (last fall) after a long haitus. I took this course in the German Department called "The Grotesque" and we read all sorts of eclectic material from the Grimm's Fairytales, to 19th century writings on the sublimity of poetry, to Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and the Tin Drum. We also watched strange early Fritz Lang films and had many invigorating conversations. My professor for that course was rather revolutionary, and encouraged me to create strange dream artefacts and art cosmologies in lieu of 8-page essays. We even made a grotesque-pedia as a class! It was so inspiring I ended up creating the Grotesque series as a result. After that, I really haven't been able to stop. Art has helped me heal in ways I never imagined was possible. One of my foremost goals is that it will do something similar for others by reaching out in that obtuse way and touch people the way folktales do. If the wound in me can speak to the wound in you through the language of dreams, my dream has already been fulfilled (as cheesy as that sounds, I strongly believe that art can have that kind of power, especially when imbued with the power of narratives and personal mythologies).
A Personal statement about you or your work:
My images are inspired by a drive to articulate a language that can describe the land of sunken cities dreaming, beyond the veil of daytime reality. I derive my imagery from unconscious embarkations to such shadowy shores of dream from which I try to bring back fragmented narratives that I hopes will resonate with daily anxieties and fears. I like to hide stories, narratives, motifs, people and secrets in my drawings, many of which only I know of! It always excites me when people see something different that I have not noticed before; I'm really just a channel for these things to come forth from the inky pool of my mind!
Links:
Website
blog
27 Apr 2011
Artist 85: Spiros Halaris
A great new artist feature for you now with the fantastic Spiros Halaris. Spiros is a fashion illustrator who has an inch perfect command of the human body and that true fashion illustrators trait of being able to distil his work into the most essential elements without losing the form or cohesion. His subjects don't detract from the clothes but neither do they lose their personality and integrity, though the main thing that sets Spiros apart is his amazing compositional skills utilising backgrounds only when he deems them appropriate and never crowding out his subjects and more importantly the clothes. Spiros has a real gift when it comes to his representation of fabrics, he uses a light touch that suggests motion but couples this with the strong shadows and lines that convey as much as possible about the garment. How the clothes hang and the cut is so easy to glean from his work, it's a really good fashion illustrator who has both the style and refinement but also the sheer mechanical skill and penmanship of a confident draughtsman. So in short it really is fair to say that he certainly deserves his hard won and impressive client list and represents a great clutch of illustrators from Middlesex Uni. Without further ado it's the fabulous Spiros Halaris, read about him here.
Who are you:
I am Spiros Halaris. I was born and raised in sunny Greece and I am now based in fabulous London!
What do you do:
What do you do:
I am an illustrator/creative. I have been freelancing and collaborating with various companies and creatives in the design and fashion industries for the past 3 years. I am exploring new paths continously and I am always up for a challenging brief.
How did you start:
How did you start:
I started out as a graphic designer and I then moved to illustration. I find that the combination of these arts leads to really fascinating works. And of course I am on a never ending process of learning and experimenting.
A Personal statement about you or your work:
I want my work to be emotive and influential on the viewer. I am at my happiest when my work touches someone and makes them feel wonderful. I love working with other creatives and would be very grateful if any of your readers wished to collaborate or make any suggestions to me.
24 Apr 2011
Easter No. 7
By Madi
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