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Sculpture Series by Mercedes Vicente
Mercedes Vicente is a Spanish artist who specialized in craft and textiles. In her series of sculptures, she explores fabrics’ behavior and skeleton volumes that expand to originate different designs. The final objects emphasize a sense of simplicity and neutrality that integrates an experience of time and space. The Beginning Mercedes Vicente: The idea behind Read more
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Mitosis by Amalie Vöge Jensen
Amalie Vöge Jensen is a Danish artist currently based in Oslo, where she’s studying a master’s program at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her work involves the creation of abstract-figurative ceramic sculptures inspired by the human body intertwined in different scenarios. In Mitosis, Amalie started exploring gender by translating through her sculptures many Read more
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Ceramic Series by Cassy McArthur
Cassy McArthur is an Australian artist who focuses on the investigation and use of clay bodies, rocks, and materials collected from the natural environment. With an innate desire for discovery, Cassy has developed an artistic pathway grounded on exploration and discovery while remaining responsive to immersion, experience, and discovery. The Beginning Cassy McArthur: Since a Read more
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Eroded Panorama series by Cosma Frascina
Graduated in Design from ISIA University in Florence, Cosma Frascina is a designer who finds inspiration in the roughness of nature and artisanal techniques. The Italian designer is most interested in sculpting objects using calcarenite and bioclastic limestones and traditional techniques, but with an experimental approach to each piece. In Eroded Panorama Series, Cosma Frascina Read more
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Translations & Suruga Series by Luis Vega
Luis Vega is a Designer-researcher with a particular focus on craft as a platform to investigate ways of socializing knowledge through materiality. Since 2019, Luis Vega works as a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Design at Aalto University while he also collaborates on other personal design challenges. Translations is a project that highlights the Read more
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TRBN 1916 / JUPITER by Turbina Studio
Turbina is a Spanish art & design studio dedicated to developing and manufacturing objects that question time and movement. There is a respectful exploration and comprehension of materials, their forms, and implicit symbology in all of their works. The TRBN 1916 / Jupiter project arises from the studies of stone as a symbol of the Read more
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WASTELAND by Annelie Grimwade
Working on ceramics and glass in a multidisciplinary practice, Annelie Grimwade Olofsson explores the borderline between control and self-governed forms. In WASTELAND project, the Swedish designer questions material innovation and investigates the waste of industrial byproducts. This series of sculptures encapsulate toxic byproducts in porcelain, glaze, and glass, underlining the threats and potentials of waste Read more
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Self Generating Forms by George William Bell
George William Bell’s work is defined by constant research and innovation of materials and stands on the fine line between art, crafts, and design. Combining glassmaking techniques in non-traditional formats and deconstructed forms, George William Bell’s work highlights a clear balance between the skill of the artisanal will and the autonomous expressions of materiality. Self Read more
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Plant Fever Exhibition at CID Grand-Hornu, Belgium
Plant Fever is a new exhibition curated and coordinated by studio d-o-t-s (Laura Drouet and Olivier Lacrouts) and produced by the CID au Grand-Hornu in Belgium. This exhibition suggests a paradigm shift when looking at the future of design, proposing a new plant-based, Phyto-centered perspective, rather than a human-centered design. Understanding the hidden potential of Read more
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Estudio de un cuadrado 2.0: Anónima by Carmen M.
“Anónima” means anonymous, the chosen term by Carmen M. Castañeda Díaz to express a concept of work behind her own name. It is a concept based on Haute Couture embroidery, artistic experimentation, and the recovery of craft techniques. Estudio de un cuadrado 2.0 series integrates Anónima by cm’s work and concept, by exploring the memory Read more
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Paper Objects by Cecilia Levy
Cecilia Levy creates sculptures, objects, and installations, using paper from old books. Her work material often reveals traces from the passage of time as well as marks from previous readers. These ‘used’ elements all contribute to the expression of her final paper objects: three-dimensional sculptures merging different stories while creating their own narrative. The Beginning Read more
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Azorean Loop by Octavio Barrera
Working between Barcelona and the Canary Islands, Octavio Barrera is a Canary-born designer with a special interest in primary materials and creative explorations. His ‘Azorean Loop’ project, represents an exploratory journey in the Azorean Islands, Portugal, where Octavio Barrera revalues the souvenir model through the landscape and crafts of the place itself. As he mentions, this project aims Read more
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Formafantasma | Cambio at Serpentine Galleries
Cambio (meaning ‘change/exchange’ in medieval Latin cambium) is the name of Formafantama‘s latest exhibition at Serpentine Galleries in London. This exhibition represents a sample of an ongoing investigation made by the Italian duo Formafantasma about the extraction, production, and distribution of wood products. As referred by Serpentine Galleries, the title of this exhibition ‘also references Read more
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Split Series by Shinkyu Shon
Split Series by Shinkyu Shon is an artistic expression of the Eastern and Western cultures, by utilizing two different materials: split pine logs and stainless steel. The latter symbolizes modern western materials, while pine trees were usually used as the main pillar of traditional Korean houses. Shinkyu Shon: In Split Series, I wanted to talk Read more
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Ceramic Series by Cecil Kemperink
The Dutch artist Cecil Kemperink creates ceramic chain sculptures using hundreds of interconnected ceramic loops. With a minimal and peaceful color palette, Cecil’s work is based on the exploration of ceramic circles, forming together delicate and fragile chain sheets. These simultaneously heavy and bulky structures play with rhythm, form, movement, energy, and sound. The Beginning Read more
