the cans festival

Images from The Cans Festival here.

world wide seb

My good friend, Seb (artist & illustrator) has just launched his website. That's him below. Well, it's a picture of him. You get the idea.


Seb took part in my Early Designs project, of which he said: "Thanks for making me put embarrassing work on the net. And my old stuff too!"
Don't mention it mate.

sleeveface live

Sleeveface hits the, umm, streets/galleries tonight in London.

I can't go. So do fill me in if you manage to catch it...

draw

I popped into the Draw exhibition at Stolen Space on Saturday.

"A must-see exhibition featuring original drawings by 300 artists in the tattoo, literature, design, illustration, animation, skateboard, music, urban and contemporary art worlds."

Well worth a look, but if you're not able to go, here are some pictures. (Took me ages to upload these. Should have made a Flickr gallery, really. But as a childhood friend once reasoned when I asked why he didn't phone me instead of walking 3 miles to see if I was home: "I couldn't be bothered)...

sebastien antoniou

Seb is 50% Cypriot, 50% French and 100% brilliant. He's funny too. If you're into that sort of thing.




Check out some more of his work. Painting and Illustration.

mcforest

I went to see The Shapes Of Space at the Guggenheim on Saturday. After studying art for years and learning how to post-rationalise (read: bullshit) I have developed into a tainted and infrequent appreciator of gallery art. I liken my gallery visits to thumbing through the clothes in a thrift store. If I go through enough shit I might find a gem.

The gem for me at TSOS was the work of Yuken Teruya, who cleverly made cuts into paper bags to sculpt little trees that appeared to grow inside them. I managed to take these pictures of a Happy Meal shrub before being told off for using a camera:


You can see more of Teruya's work here.

I've seen other examples of clever paper-crafting recently, but what makes this stand out is that two tree shapes were cut out, folded down and twisted together to make 3-dimensional forms.