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Monday, 27 June 2011

Daniel Patrick Helmstetter

I always loved the relationship between words and their imagery, Daniel Patrick does a great job of overwhelming the senses with a room filled with them...

http://www.danielpatrick.org/

Saturday, 18 June 2011

Saturday, 11 June 2011

The Smiths Karaoke "The World Won't Listen"

Phil Collins is an English born multi media artist currently based in Berlin. His work expands into many different areas of practice, each investigating the perils of representation and the underlying emotions within the outwardly transparent medias like video and photography...
http://sickoftheradio.com/2011/06/02/phil-collinsthe-smiths-karaoke-world-listen/

Friday, 20 May 2011

Featured Artist - Britta Bacchus

Britta Bacchus has BA with a major in visual arts, and has lived in Cambridge, London and Osaka making art and teaching in schools. She now lives in her hometown, Vancouver, and her drawings are influenced by the city, music, and sometimes literature. Britta's main interest lies in portraiture and convergences between "high" and "low" forms of art.

http://brittabacchus.blogspot.com/

Monday, 16 May 2011

Baptiste Debombourg

French artist Baptiste Debombourg creates sculptures and installations that play on the broken and un-usable. The Parisian based artist has shown his work across Europe and in the US and is due to exhibit at The University of Chicoutimi UQAC in Québec, Canada this May...

http://sickoftheradio.com/2011/05/09/baptiste-debombourg/

spoonflower

a lovely design courtesy of Supayana

Check out this great website for designing and printing your own fabric. Choose your fabric and pattern lay out, ooh can't wait to get started on a design! The scarves look gorge.

http://www.spoonflower.com/

Monday, 2 May 2011

Christine Jones

Scottish artist and designer Christine Jones paints and draws in a very delicate manner. Her intriguingly pale and subtle pencil drawings are a new take on the over-looked medium...

http://sickoftheradio.com/2011/04/26/christine-jones/

Monday, 25 April 2011

An Array of Smiths' vinyl

(not mine)

Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Laurel Roth

Laurel Roth makes peacocks out of 'human mating plumage', take a look at my artist feature about this work and the chandeliers she makes from syringes...

http://sickoftheradio.com/2011/04/19/laurel-roth/

Fintan Magee

Another of my features on Australian wall painter and installation-ist Fintan Magee

http://sickoftheradio.com/2011/04/19/fintan-magee/

Three Studio/Gallery

Another of my art features, this one's kinda weird. Melted plastic figures made into different forms...

http://sickoftheradio.com/2011/04/19/studiogallery/

Beth I haven't forgotten you

This morning I realized I haven't listened to Miss Orton in an age. I've missed her! She who shunned offers from Calvin Klein and Starbucks who offered to up her public profile, on ethical grounds. She who writes and sings the most amazing songs should not be forgotten. After all, I did name this blog after one of her albums...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xLa43OJiQU&feature=related

Rusko at The Commodore, Vancouver

photo courtesy of 22h22.org

Rusko played his unique brand of dub-step to a very eclectic crowd the other night...

http://www.guttersnipenews.com/features/rusko-vancouver/

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Interview - Ellie Goulding

Photo from her MySpace

Read my interview with the blond pop-electronic artist from Hereford. She tells me about her sense of style, dreaming of working with Jamie Woon and running 6 miles a day...

http://www.guttersnipenews.com/music/interviews/ellie-goulding-vancouver/

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Action Sampler

A selection of the photos taken with my new toy. Next roll, I'm only doing outside shots! Although the light and dark contrast in some of the shots does make for some interesting imagery...