It’s been a week since Studio Toogood arrived in Sydney to create the city’s latest cultural destination, a pop-up experiment and temporary haven for a bit of art, design and some delectable gastronomy, and it’s all starting to make more sense. Faye Toogood’s work in this case reflects the differing characteristics of wine and the creative parallels that exist in other objects of art (colour and shape, for example, displayed through sculptures, a few light installations and photography, all created by local Australian artists). However, with this approach the Toogood design team pursues the study of a more instinctual human behavior before addressing the given product at hand. It actually pursues the visual and tangible sense of aesthetics to help guests decide on what to ultimately consume; in other words to experience your choices through various senses, before swigging a glass of wine and merely thinking through the taste buds, as normal…

Daniel A. Bruce is an artist who lives and works in NYC, who’s work explores the idea of contradiction and irony. In his latest exhibition Bumpkin Dandy, “a show about a clash of high and low cultural practice”, Daniel represents the simple American lifestyle represented by icons and collectibles which examine a “distorted reflection, a tweaked image of art as objects of taste”…

London-based artist Nicola Yeomen creates elaborate, ethereal installations which are both bold and graphic, and delicately fragile. Her most recent work “In Waiting” is made up of drapery and cement in a series of circular installations. Nicola’s work explores the use of countless materials – top hats, ripped up floorboards, birds, shirts, doilies, paper – you name it…

Today I would like to sing praises and throw the yellowtrace spotlight on Jacob Hashimoto. Jacob is contemporary artist born in Greeley, Colorado in 1973, who currently lives and work in New York. Drawing on his Japanese heritage and the tradition of kite-making, Hashimoto creates three-dimensional structures made out of thousands of miniature ‘kites’, constructed from bamboo-stiffened rice paper suspended with nylon fishing line.

I am so deeply moved by Jacob’s work that I am having trouble putting it in words. I mean, imagine… really IMAGINE standing underneath or within one of these mesmerising installations in real life. His work communicates a deep and profound stillness and weightlessness, an extreme and delicate beauty which would make me feel too scared to breathe…

Celebrated Bombay born, London based artist Anish Kapoor is renowned for his enigmatic sculptural forms which are incredibly difficult to describe in words. So who am I to even try, right? Right. There is no doubt that his ginormously epic installations are captivating and visually arresting, like the incredible Leviathan at Grand Palais in Paris last year (2011). It’s seriously serious and absolutely mesmerising, no? Having said this, I am equally intrigued and captivated by his smaller, seemingly simpler works, such as the Untitled series shown below. To me, looking at these incredible pure glossy shapes is a form of visual meditation…