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Playfully sinister works by the Cameron Twins challenge our connections with our past selves

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Working across screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation, the work of the Cameron Twins leans into a strong, garish aesthetic that plays with a bright and oversaturated colour palette. We enjoy using this popular imagery in our sculptures and prints as they add a playful and witty quality to the work.".

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May 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Open Calls ArteAlta (International) This annual competition organized by Alina Art Foundation, Inarttendu, and the Council of the Region Valle d’Aosta invites artists to submit work across painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, textiles, paper, and video related to the theme of Fear. Deadline: May 1, 2024.

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Humans and Animals Commune with Nature and the Cosmos in the Multidisciplinary Work of Kiki Smith

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Smith began examining themes relating to the body in the 1980s, spurred by the death of her father, who was also an artist, and the loss of her sister to AIDS. Acclaimed artist Kiki Smith completed the piece in 2022, and it’s one of the most recent works in which she honors the natural world and humanity’s role within it.

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January 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Virgin Islands) This portrait competition is open to all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, video, performance art, and digital or time-based art. Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2025 (United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S.

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Seven Artists Crack Open the Art of Printed Matter in ‘Bookworks’

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In a new exhibition in London, the world of reading provides a starting point for the seven artists to explore a wide range of themes and materials, highlighting our perennial fascination with the printed and bound medium.

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Gradwatch 2020: Artist Matilda White, Camberwell College of Arts

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She describes herself as a printmaker and artist, working digitally as well as on paper, and recently branched out into textiles. For her final degree project White created a woven piece entitled A Gender Circus, which uses symbols and tropes from the world of performance to explore themes of gender and identity.

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August 2022 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Franconia Sculpture Park Residencies (International). This year’s theme is “Public Art IS Public Health.” Artists of all disciplines interested in printmaking are eligible for this new fellowship from the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Awardees will receive between $500 and $5,000. Deadline: Rolling.

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