Thom Puckey was born in Bexleyheath, Kent, in 1948, the same place as myself but a few decades prior, he’s an honorary Dutchman these days, having worked and taught in the Netherlands for many many years, but in essence he …
Sure it’s the end of the world, or near enough, we all need to do our bit, although seeing as our local council don’t bother recycling most of the paper, card and plastic we carefully place in their specified bags …
You just can’t pigeon-hole Antony Micallef – his work doesn’t fit anything resembling a genre – although plenty of art movements would love to adopt him, from street and urban to traditional painters to muralists to neo-pop, well you name …
One of my very first articles at this blog featured Sickboy, Bristolian street art sensation with a penchant for creating temples in the corporate palette of McDonalds, although for legal purposes he probably won’t be quoted on that little …
Now, is Frank Plant a designer, a sculptor, a muralist, who knows? He may just have touched upon the slimmest of niches not seen before, or at least not for quite a while. Creating pieces that jiggle between the second …
For those of a religious persuasion ‘The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away’, for the rest of us it breaks down to something more mundanely unfathomable, a catch 22 scenario, a cage of mortality where limitations are abound. The …
Daniel Edwards (American sculptor; Born: La Porte, Indiana, 1965) is artistically a man I can relate to, he courts controversy, in fact he welcomes it with open arms. His sculptures include everything from a breastfeeding Angelina Jolie, to an Oprah Winfrey …
Just got the latest Other Criteria newsletter and even though I confess I haven’t heard of Gary Webb before I liked the look of what I saw on offer, even if the prices are beyond the reach of mortal man. Each …