Sarah Frost
16th December 2011
Have you ever seen a wall made up of keyboard keys? No? Well neither had I until now and how beautiful does it look?
Debris, QWERTY by Sarah Frost was on at PPOW Gallery in New York early this year, and you can check out more of her work here.
CommentField of Light
1st December 2011
With the countdown to christmas officially on, I thought these images from Bruce Munro’s Field of Light exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath would be fun!
(via LaughingSquid)
Richard Mosse: Infra
28th November 2011
These fascinating images are part of a series called ‘Infra’ by Irish photographer Richard Mosse. They were shot in the Democratic Republic of Congo on a color infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. Now discontinued, it was once used by the military as surveillance technology to help detect camouflage by registering an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink. Beautiful.
“Infra offers a radical rethinking of how to depict a conflict as complex and intractable as that of the ongoing war in the Congo. The results offer a fevered inflation of the traditional reportage document, underlining the tension between art, fiction, and photojournalism. Infra initiates a dialogue with photography that begins as an intoxicating meditation on a broken documentary genre, but ends as a haunting elegy for a vividly beautiful land touched by unspeakable tragedy.”
Infra is showing from November 17 – December 23.
Jack Shainman Gallery
513 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
(via Trendland)
Bamako Encounters
8th November 2011
Running until January 1st, 2012 is one of Africa’s biggest photography exhibitions, Bamako Encounters 2011. This year examines the search for a sustainable world through photography.
The African Photography Biennial is made up of a number of shows with the main exhibition For a Sustainable World being held at the National Museum of Mali. Paris Photo is also taking place this week from 10th – 13th November showcasing African Photography – from Bamako to Cape Town at The Grande Palais in Paris. I wonder if anything will come to Cape Town?
(Thanks mum)
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011
21st October 2011
Every year I love going to see the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award. Not only are the photographs breathtaking, the stories behind the shots are often just as incredible.
This super cute photo of a baby snub-nose monkey won French photographer Cyril Rouso runner-up in the endangered wildlife category. Check out the other winners here.
The exhibition runs until next March at the Natural History Museum in London and the International tour hits the Iziko Museum in Cape Town on December 6th.
Warphabet by Viktor Koen
25th August 2011
Warphabet is a series of alphabet prints by Greek designer Viktor Koen that reflect on the world’s hostilities.
He says “…these are not images about the beauty of weaponry, but a commentary on its uses, results, sale, and distribution. The use of arms and armor throughout covers a wide but random chronology of man killing man. Random, because it made no sense adhering to any kind of order when it comes to something so senseless.”
His first London show Viktorian. Alphabet, Steampunk, Weapons and Toys opens on 13th September at The Coningsby Gallery which I’ll try and see while we’re there next month.
(via Salon)
Anish Kapoor + Richie Hawtin
18th August 2011
Every year, Monumenta invites a world renowned artist to exhibit an installation in the great nave inside the Grand Palais in Paris.
This year the amazing Anish Kapoor installed Leviathan, a ginormous red chamber named after a Biblical sea monster – very cool. On 21st June my favourite DJ of all time, Richie Hawtin preformed in this space, through a creative partnership between The Creators Project and WeLoveArt – very cool indeed.
Check out The Creators Project video of Anish Kapoor and Richie Hawtin discussing how integrating music into a space can create a totally new artistic experience here.
I wish wish wish I’d been there to see that.
Toffie Food Festival
17th August 2011
Just found out the Toffie Food Festival is on from the 3rd-4th September at the Cape Town City Hall.
It looks awesome and there’s going to be a talk by Julie Powell from the film Julie and Julia! Too bad we’ll be away – I really wish I could go.
Loving the poster too. It would go perfectly with my other 2 Toffie exhibition prints…
Guy Tillim @ Stevenson
27th July 2011
South African photographer Guy Tillim’s Second Nature opens at the Stevenson Gallery today and runs until the 3rd September.
Tillim spent a year photographing life in French Polynesia and although I’m not a huge fan of what I’ve seen of it online so far, I’m intrigued to pop down and see what the prints look like in person.
Somehow I imagine they’re going to be very big and so then we can see if big really is (almost always) better…
Degree Shows 2011
8th June 2011
Is it really 8 years since I graduated? Scary!
The 2011 UK graduate shows are coming up over the next month and then in July the D&AD New Blood, Free Range and New Designers shows will all be on. Wish I was in London to check some of them out – especially CSM.
For more college dates check out Creative Review here.
Miss Moss
13th May 2011
I absolutely love this photo of Kate Moss – one of the many that will be on show for a new Paris exhibition, Kate Moss, par les plus grands photographes.
The exhibition will be on at Galerie de L’Instant from 13th May – 14th September and is a celebration of her career as one of the most beautiful and fascinating models of our time.
Hello London!
10th May 2011
Apart from the awesome fact that London has been sunny since we arrived yesterday, the other amazing news is that the Tate Modern is having a Miró exhibition while we’re here! Horray! He is my absolute favourite painter in the whole world.
Cannot wait!
No More Ice Cream
1st April 2011
On Wednesday I went to Woodstock with my lovely friends Lynnda Needles and Richard to check out some of the galleries.
I can’t believe I’ve never been before! *whoops*
The one I liked best was at the Blank Projects Gallery and featured Vanessa Niloufar Safavi’s first South African exhibition, No More Ice Cream.
There were 2 neon installations (always cool!) and my favourite, mainly because of it’s title, was “The best fisherman is not the one who catches the most fish but the one who enjoys fishing the most” - little coloured birds that looked a lot like golden arches.
I think i might have to start making a monthly trip down Sir Lowry Road to check out what’s going on…stay tuned!
Toffie
25th March 2011
Yay! This morning I squeezed in a quick stop at the Toffie Pop Culture Festival.
The BEST bit by far was finally finding out where all those signs came from! I’ve been seeing them around town for the last 6 months or so – my favourites had to be Boob Jobs, Tickets to Heaven and Husbands spotted on early morning drives down the M3 to the beach. Brilliant.
There was a recording being played of the messages people had left, but the quality was pretty rubbish and I couldn’t really hear much of what was being said unfortunately – I would love to know what people ask about when calling up for Boob Jobs and Hairy Men…
Anyway, they’re by Conn Bertish who is one of the Creative Directors at JWT in Cape Town. He also happens to be a big wave surfer and a ridiculously talented creative dude who’s won all kinds of awards including a D&AD pencil. Cool.
The other thing that caught my eye was the display by Janet Kinghorn – I design for…
Take your pick of coloured smarties – why do you design?
What a rocking start to the weekend!
Klaus Tiedge
24th March 2011
I had an email this morning from the amazing Martin Osner Gallery about their new exhibition of work by Klaus Tiedge.
I can’t wait to check out Pride of Africa – an exclusive showing of his first wildlife photography collection. These incredible images look more like paintings than photographs and I can only image how much more beautiful they’ll be in real life.
Pride of Africa
1st April – 26th April
Martin Osner Gallery
The Piazza, Cape Quarter
Making Marks
16th March 2011
This is only one example of just how awesome (and talented) my friend Daniel Alexander is.
His new exhibition Making Marks is open at the Mill Co Project in London.
6pm – 9pm. Thursday 7th April
4pm – 8pm. Friday 8th / Saturday 9th April
I wish I could be there.
Design Indaba ♥
3rd March 2011
I had a cool time looking around Design Indaba last Saturday. There are some really talented people working out here in South Africa and often it’s for a great cause which rocks.
The only thing I’m not so into is the ‘cuteness’ of a lot of the design here. There seems to be a bit of a trend with ceramic hearts and all things sweet which isn’t very London rock n’ roll.
That said though, I did find some cool stuff – so here are a few of my favourite things from Design Indaba 2011.
Enjoy.
Mingo Lamberti
They’ve got a sweet website and their collections have names like ‘The Made in China Range” and “The Death Range” which is cool. It’s even better that their collaborative t-shirt designs rock as well. I want one in every design for the amazing S! please.
Sootcookie Ceramics
I know, it’s cute ceramic stuff but I couldn’t resist buying one of these ‘paper’ planes. “Sootcookie ceramics” derives its name from the Afrikaans word meaning “sweet biscuit…” Enough said – but Tanya Laing’s work is actually pretty cool and she makes an amazing range of quirky animals.
Ikhaya
Loved these little guys which are carved from fallen Jacaranda trees.
Justin Southey
This quirky South African illustrator had some great work on display. He had some super cute kids mobiles made up of wooden characters that were fun and I thought his style was unique and unusual.
Papillon Belle
Oh Oh Oh. I wanted to take home the entire collection from Papillon Belle! These butterfly necklaces are handmade from sustainable butterfly wings and are sourced from places like Madagascar and Indonesia. The colours and textures in the wings were incredible and the settings were made beautifully as well. Yes please!
Design Indaba 2011
25th February 2011
Design Indaba kicked off yesterday and the CTICC is rocking with pretty looking designy types wandering around holding their Truth machiatto’s and bottles of &Union and Jack Black.
Super excited about checking it out tomorrow. Will let you know how I get on…
