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Hingston Studio's designs for Garry Fabian Miller, the 'camera-less' fine art photographer

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Dubbed 'one of the most progressive figures in fine art photography', Garry Fabian Miller's work is currently on show at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. And it looks to place Fabian Miller's 'camera-less' darkroom practice among the work of other artists, writers and thinkers that have inspired him throughout his career. "We

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Yuchen Lu creates dreamlike illustrations inspired by Greek mythology and Chinese folklore

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She even lived very close to China's top art school, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, which further nurtured her appreciation. I was lucky to have more access to art than most Chinese children," she tells Creative Boom. I get my inspiration from nature, mythology, fairy tales, and dreams," she explains. "To

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Maiyashu's new picture book explores how people relate to their hometowns in a breathtaking way

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It's a theme that author and illustrator Xinyue Chen, AKA Maiyashu, explores to great effect in their latest picture book, I Will Always Be Here. This story is inspired by my experience of migration in China and leaving China," they explain. "I What do you picture when you think of home?

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Xiangni Song follows her instincts to create paintings of the abstract images in her mind

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She subsequently transitioned from illustration to fine art by enrolling in the MFA Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute in 2020. Today, painting, drawing and ceramics are Xiangni's medium of choice, and her art deals with themes of identity, self-observation and the imagination.

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Diverse Expressions: 5 Artwork Themes to Discover at The Other Art Fair Brooklyn This May

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Ahead of the main event, we’re highlighting five categories of artists based on shared themes, offering a look at the diverse range of artistic practices at this year’s fair. Inspired by childhood resourcefulness and Brooklyn’s cultural tapestry, Sean Qualls crafts evocative illustrations and paintings.

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Cradle: Playful tufted chairs and stools shaped like cats offer comfort and hope

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Titled Cradle, the exhibition at Reem Gallery in Ham Yard, Soho, will bring the Central Saint Martins fine art graduate's unique body of work to the masses, all centring around the recurring theme of cats in nursery rhymes and folk stories. They're not like anything we've ever seen. Selby Hurst Inglefield (Left).

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Beyond the Brand: new Warhol exhibition unearths rarely-seen art treasures

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As art historian and museum curator Joachim Pissarro's accompanying essay explains: "Ads is a masterful culmination of Warhol's career-long interest in the blurred lines between commercialism and fine art, and it resituates these omnipresent themes into a new state-of-the art array consonant with this late era's zeitgeist.