Jack Addis is a young artist who lives and works in Bristol, UK. He just graduated the other year from Bath School of Art and Design but he has already made a name for himself in the artworld. His portraits are broken, manipulated, glitched and then collaged back together to create a conflict of identity. An exciting visual strategy, that also explores our current socio-political landscape.
Rosanna Webster is an illustrator experimenting with film, photography, projection and collage and the outcome is absolutely gorgeous.
The images you see up here are some great handmade mixed media collages by British artist Joe Webb. If you like what you see you should definitely check out his Saatchi profile where you can buy his work as well as get to know more about the artist, like this piece of information: “My collages work to a basic rule of sourcing just two or three images….Then I present them as a reinvented single image with the objective of communicating a new message or idea. I started making these simple hand made collages as a sort of luddite reaction to working on computers for years. I like the limitations of collage…using found imagery and a pair of scissors, there are no Photoshop options to resize, adjust colours or undo. I suppose I’m fairly anti technology although I now promote my art on websites like this, own an iPhone and use Facebook…I wish I had been born 100 years ago.”
Randy Mora is a self-taught artist and illustrator currently working in Bogotá, Colombia. He makes cut and paste collages where he mixes a bit of everything, like scary anatomy, plants, kitschy devices and animals into elegant artwork. His collages develop from ideas he first puts down in small sketches. During the process, however, many variables lead him to other solutions far from the original idea. He usually works in Photoshop, scanning the pictures he needs. Each one of them has its own history: “the key is to know how to organize them into a solid concept. I don’t like to rush things.”
Hayley Warnhal is a UK based illustrator and graphic designer who graduated in 2010 with a degree in Visual Communication from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design and has been working as a freelance illustrator ever since. What makes her work so adorable is her ability to find beauty in the mundane and her art sure brings a smile to your face. The three images you see up here are from ‘Everything is Beautiful’, her most recent collage series.
Artistic statement:
The saying goes that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. It occurs in places you least expect. Revealing its art in the human body, but also cruelly absent in the presence of deformations and scars. Ashkan Honarvar (1980) depicts an undeniable, unavoidable beauty by accepting the darker sides of human ‘nature’. The body, torn by acts of war, exploited by the sex industry or used as a tool for seeking identity, is the focal point of his work.This constitutes a search for a universal representation of the evil latent in every human, providing an opportunity for reflection. His aesthetic dissection has an intriguing macabre nature, which opens the images to interpretation. Honarvar’s almost empiric exploration of the human condition knows no bounds. Its goal; the indefinable core.
Iranian artist Ashkan Honarvar currently lives and works in The Netherlands
“If it’s small enough I’ll stick it down”
Artist Joe Black uses thousands of tiny plastic toy soldiers or colourful badges to piece his amazing mosaic art together. And if having the patience to do that wasn’t impressive enough, nearly every badge is made by himself and relates to the art work in some way.
Lola Dupré is a artist and illustrator currently working near Avignon in the south of France. Using paper, scissors and glue she disassembles and assembles photographs into meticulously, contoured mosaic-like collages. Wow wow wow!
Javier Piñon was born in Miami but grew up in sunny Texas. Nowadays he lives and works in Brooklyn,New York where he has made himself a name on the art scene with his amazing seamless collages filled with classical mythology and christian iconography. He is married to New York- based clothes designer Mara Hoffman, and togheter they sure make a booming couple.
Claudio Parentela is an Italian multi-artist who works as an illustrator, painter, photographer, cartoonist and collagist. He was lives and work in Catanzaro and has been active on the Italian as well as the international underground art scene for many years.
Juergen Grewe was born 1969 in Münster, Germany. He studied visual arts at Fachhochschule Hannover and now lives and works in Berlin where he makes massive oil paintings which looks like digital snapshots of popular culture. Some find them scary but we love them!
Feauturing 70s rock figures and 80s cartoon characters, Fab Ciraolo know how to hypnotize us with his work.
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