Christopher Payne Photographs the Production Line of One of America’s Last Pencil Factories.For over a century, the General Pencil Company has meticulously crafted the humble writing, drawing, and doodling instruments formally known as pencils. Back in 1889 when the Jersey City factory first opened, a world without pencils would...
Anonymous Women by Patty Carroll.In Patty Carroll’s ongoing photography series, women are shown faceless, hidden, and therefore representative of any woman. They appear restrained, muffled, relaxed, cocooned; a lot lies with individual interpretation. But for all the...
Rone Transforms Abandoned Art Deco Mansion in Melbourne.Melbourne street artist Rone presents Empire, an installation takeover of Burnham Beeches, a formerly glorious 1930's mansion in the Dandenong Ranges. Rone collaborated with interior stylist Carly Spooner to source over 500 Art Deco...
Suzanne Jongmans Uses Waste Materials to Recreate Dutch Renaissance.Suzanne Jongmans takes her inspiration from the old Dutch masters, the painters of the past, specifically focusing on the 15th, 16th and 17th century. Rembrandt, Holbein the Younger and Rogier van der Weyden - you’ll find references to...
Martin Jonsson’s Surreal & Enigmatic Oil Paintings.Stockholm-born Åkersberga-based artist Martin Jonsson has taken a nebulous theme and applied it to his subjects, putting a whole new spin on having your head in the clouds. Cumulus engulfs his solitary subjects, their puffy, cotton-like...
Is It You?: Faceless Painted Portraits by Fabio La Fauci.Italian born, Berlin-based artist Fabio La Fauci’s most recent work is a set of ten portraits, where each face has been masked by a thick, sculpted layer of ceramic and acrylic modelling paste. Fabio La Fauci’s Is It You? series...
Sometime/Somewhere by Euan Heng at Niagara Galleries.Scottish-born, Melbourne-based painter and sculptor Euan Heng has revealed a new set of works this month at Niagara Galleries in Richmond....
In Our Image: Fragmented Sculptures of Humankind.We survey our favourite artists who are creating marble portraits and classical spinoffs that show off the human form, but also our fragmented, flawed nature—and the complicated, cracked, and crooked world we live in. Spanish...
Portraits of Indian Flower Men by Danish Photographer Ken Hermann.To most of us, fresh flowers are a short-lived pleasure—a simple luxury that tends to fade away a little too quickly. In India, flowers are loaded with meaning, tradition, substance, and spirituality. From the symbolic lotus to ribbons...
